Russian LiveJournal

[valiha]

I decided to install the Stylish extension and this userscript because I was getting fed up looking at the blinking icons every time I went to the home page to upload a pic to Scrapbook or do some layout tweaks, and noticed in one of the comments a question of why the English version of LJ doesn't have a nice layout like the Russian LJ. I clicked on the link provided.

Lo and behold.

. o_O .. O_O ...

It looks so... modern. And it shows you your stats! Why can't we get something like that? Or at least an option for us to customize the main page according to our needs. I know that not everyone uses it, but I do, since that's where all the links to layout management and customization are, and that's my starting point for working as a mod - managing the comm, members, posts waiting for moderation in the queue, invitations...

I hate having to look at all that crap they've piled on the page, even if it's for the time it takes me to go somewhere else. I had to enable Cyrillic services just so I wouldn't have to look at it while signed in. :(

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Your post got me curious, since I don't recall my comms showing up on the home page. So I went over to look and they don't. Now I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing! All I see is stuff from my journal and the sidebar with all the links like I have on my profile page. Is there a way to see comm activity on the home page? Because that would be handy!

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Sorry, we had a sudden blackout; several, in fact.

They used to show the latest comments made in your journal, but that got deleted once they implemented ONTD and posts from random journals. They also intend to add a feature where people would add their comms to the queue and posts from those journals would appear next to the ONTD posts. It would be rotated frequently. There's no option for you to go to the module settings and add comms that you're interested and want to see.

Are you looking at http://www.livejournal.com/? This is how it looks now:


And this is what it looks like with Cyrillic services enabled:


It would be ideal if I could move these modules around, the way it's possible on the LJ Portal, but they buried that link so that it's not easy to find.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I think I just misunderstood what you were saying I know that not everyone uses it, but I do, since that's where all the links to layout management and customization are, and that's my starting point for working as a mod - managing the comm, members, posts waiting for moderation in the queue, invitations...

I thought there was some place to mange your comms from the home page. My sidebar has the layout management links and such, and while it shows up on my homepage, I access it from my profile page instead.

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, there's a link to manage communities. When I go there, it shows me what comms I mod, and actions I can take. All the links are in a sidebar to the left (depending on the site layout you choose) and yes, they're visible from my profile, but I rarely go there. :) The main page is my point of entry. That was my Speed Dial bookmark, as it had things I found useful (said journal comments, because I could not rely on email notifications at all times - they often break down).

Frankly, it bothers me that ONTD is visible both while you are logged out and logged in, but would at least like an option where I could turn it off when I sign in. It just drives me crazy with all the blinking icons and inappropriate content that LJ made such a fuss about but is now apparently endorsing. There are 35 pages and 2943 comments on the latest news post advertising "Homepage enhancements", most of them protesting the "enhancements" :snort:, and plenty of ONTD users posting macros, rude comments and asking Y U MAD THO? x_x

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That one I knew about. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on some nifty function [g] Because it would be neat if something like the mange comms info was on the same page as all the other stuff.

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Because it would be neat if something like the mange comms info was on the same page as all the other stuff.

Oh I wish!

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

Funny... and here people often disable Cyrillic services and whines how SUP (the company that bought Cyrillic segment) had spoiled everything:). As for me, I'm having the oldest and simplest style, which is not available to new users anymore, and I'm absolutely content with it.

*Remembered about stats function and actually went to see it, first time in what... a year?* Well, if you've enabled Cyrillic services I would see you there, if you ever decide to drop by:).

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

People on English version of LJ whine about SUP a lot too. They're not satisfied with the way they've been constantly disregarded and ignored. Paid users are especially upset, since they're not getting the service for free. Some of them have invested a lot of money into several accounts. I'm subscribed to news and I see a lot of legitimate complaints (of course, there are those who just want to troll).

The only reason I enabled it was to see the latest comments made in my journal. I'm not actually sure what enabling it entails. O_O Can you explain it to me, please?

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm not sure what it does entail save for stats - until today I didn't know that entailed comments (was fairly sure that link http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml worked before all that talks about Cyrillic services....).