Brainstorming Post!

[brat_inslayage]

Picture me flailing in futile and exaggeratedly comic rage if it makes this whole comment redesign thing just an infinitesimal amount better.

You know how this works, right? Make with the storming of the braininess.

[[just wait for the OH GOD HOW IS THIS EVEN GOING TO WORK I DON'T KNOW AND I WON'T BE ABLE TO TELL FROM MY INBOX ocd, such as it is, is there. *weeps* oh, hell. get your redesign rage on in the ooc sorta-thread. DO IT.]]

Comments

[angelo_wings]

So they've streamlined it by taking out a lot of things people use -- I liked clicking on the "(no subject)" in order to go to a specific spot in a long comment thread, or whatever placeholder they want to use there -- and are now using Javascript instead of HTML, which means it's going to be buggier and hiccup more. That's the gist of it?

As a programmer, then, what are the odds of this being something they'll roll back, vs. this is how it is, this is how it's staying, we should get used to it? I mean, how tied are they to this, going forward? How much of a paradigm shift is this, if it's all Javascript etc?

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Well, when you hover over a comment, you get a link that says "link" that you can use to go to that specific spot. And you get expand/collapse links, but sometimes they don't work, even in Chrome.

As far as this being something they'd roll back... I don't think they will. There's a whole lot of new code, and they probably spent a very, very long time making it all work. I think we're probably in for a rough ride while they use us all as unwilling alpha-testers.

The last time they added all sorts of pretty new features, they were add-ons and the page would still work if the scripts broke. This time, it's all integrated and stuff.