The gripes of wrath

[flemmings]

(I know. Someone must have used that before me and said this before me. Kamawan'. It's my turn now.)

Would it be so difficult for livejournal to distinguish between 'people I want to read' and 'people I want to read me'? I know there are filters, but it's extra steps to add people to filters when I've friended them, and extra steps to go to 'custom' when I post what ought to be a simple friends-locked post. Ordinarily I just go to the journal itself to read someone I don't feel like addressing, but there's this current fashion for eye-searing colours and tiny fonts. If I want them in black on white, I have to friend them. Pfui.

(PS: The gripes are not sweetened by the current rabbit-eyed headcold-and-allergy cocktail.)

Comments

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

There's nothing to be done about the need for filters as far as I know, but you can impose your own journal style on any journal or comment page by adding "?style=mine" on the end of the link, like this - http://www.livejournal.com/community/metafandom/?style=mine

It should work as long as you are logged in. =)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Qwerty, you are invaluable, Seimei cried for perhaps the fiftieth time. I'd heard of the famous "/?style=mine" and knew that comments would (theoretically) revert to old style if you checked the right box- there are some people this trick seems not to work with. But I didn't realize you could manually override lj styles. Which is tiresome to do every time but not nearly as tiresome as filtering.

I go to defriend the eye-searers.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

there are some people this trick seems not to work with

Like petronia. For anyone's next trick, figure a way to uncustomize her comments page. Ticking boxes doesn't work.

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Hee. I had no idea either,.I just decided to test it out when you mentioned the problem and was surprised it works too. =)

Yes! Yes! I guessed it might be this, and just tested - for comments pages, just add ?style=mine to the link - there's no slash. Like so:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/petronia/366756.html?style=mine
I pwn petronia's comments page! =D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ahhah!! You pwn the internets! And now I can read mikeneko's friends list again without scrolling. All hail qwerty!

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

This might be more trouble than it's worth, but if you're running Firefox you might want to try this (http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_nifty/124660.html). It seems to work on everything, journals, communities, comment links, at least for me.

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Wow, you really are the Internet Fairy. /happy awe