Oh sweet fuck, tell me this is a joke
Nov. 11th, 2011 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
*looking at the "new and improved" archive skin in horror*
Gray! The background is GRAY!
And the "this is one of your own things" background is PINK!
*horrified beyond words*
ETA: A Quick Fix Skin I ran up is available here until it actually goes public.
Gray! The background is GRAY!
And the "this is one of your own things" background is PINK!
*horrified beyond words*
ETA: A Quick Fix Skin I ran up is available here until it actually goes public.
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Date: 2011-11-11 10:36 pm (UTC)I'm having to start from the ground up with my neat, tidy white background/black text/sans-serif font. FROM THE GROUND UP. Oh, God.
I'm very excited about the fact that I will, eventually, be able to create a mobile stylesheet. That's fantastic. But. URK. OH GOD.
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Date: 2011-11-11 10:40 pm (UTC)Er, sorry about the caps, but I am so pissed about that I can't even tell you. The entire reason I came up with a custom skin was to get rid of serif fonts. And then I tried putting sans-serif fonts in and WHAT. WHAT.
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Date: 2011-11-12 02:43 am (UTC)But, isn't an archive of this kind supposed to function for people who are not particularly interested in writing code? Maybe I'm being a big entitled baby about this, but life is short, and while I respect and admire you folks who code and design layouts and such, I've come to accept that coding is far, far down on my big list of things I want to learn to do some day. Behind cabinetmaking, and lost wax casting in precious metals, and pharmacology, and racecar driving, and a bunch of other things. So odds are good that I'm not going to get to it any time soon. Is it really unreasonable for me to want things like AO3 to work without my having to know what the devil a skin is? And to be able to do simple searching and simple formatting of anything I might want to archive there without having to acquire a whole new set of nearly-professional-level skills?
It probably sounds as if I mean those questions to be rhetorical, but I don't, really. It could be that I'm wrong about where the technology of the Internet really is in relation to end users -- that is, that we're not yet at a point where it's reasonable for people like me to expect to be able to not know these things. Once upon a time, if you were going to drive a car you needed to know a fairish amount about how the machine worked, and some basic things you could do for yourself when yours inevitably broke down. Now, you mostly can't fix one yourself if you want to, and there's no reason for you to know much about how one works if you're not a professional. It's just, I had thought that the net had gotten to a point where I really, really could forget about learning to program and not spend much time tripping over my own ignorance.
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Date: 2011-11-12 03:00 am (UTC)I'm very unimpressed with the lack of thought that went into this re-design.
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Date: 2011-11-12 02:55 am (UTC)I was very excited about new skins and after the deploy I nearly cried. Maybe this will give me the impetus to finally make things purple like I prefer them, but until I have the energy to do that, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Were these skins tested AT ALL?
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Date: 2011-11-12 03:05 am (UTC)As for the "won't need !important" any more... *laughs hollowly*
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Date: 2011-11-12 04:26 am (UTC)And the 1.0 skin doesn't change either of those.
I agree with the person above- I use the AO3 to read- why should I have to spend hours learning about skins and coding (it all looks like gibberish to me!) to make the site readable? And they make it sound so easy "if you want to make a new skin just browse this!" when it clearly isn't.
There was only one thing I wanted changed-and that has stayed the same.
Sorry for the random person ranting-just happy to find other people who also aren't happy.
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Date: 2011-11-12 04:36 am (UTC)And yes, the "just make a skin" cheer is, um, really not the way to make people happier when the interface is still so non-user-friendly. The /site css/ is non-user-friendly, and I say this as someone who /does/ code.
Please, feel free to rant. It'll keep me company while I try to find all the places where they screwed with the /opacity/ of all things to change the background colors.
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Date: 2011-11-12 04:53 am (UTC)...for now I'll just try downloading fics and reading them on a .pdf instead.
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Date: 2011-11-12 05:54 am (UTC)The blog post are basically unreadable and none of the public skins could fix that.
I wished we could have something as good as ff.net, but at least it worked before. :(
(also. Omg. Panda madness skin. Awesome idea, horrifying to look at.)
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Date: 2011-11-12 06:29 am (UTC)And way to fail on the page navigation 'hovering' over there under the filters in a little square. *headdesk*
i'm too tired to be more polite than that
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Date: 2011-11-12 06:33 am (UTC)I /think/ I got the navigation to play well. But yeah, that one was /major/ fail, and fixing it was way more difficult than it should have been.
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Date: 2011-11-12 03:28 pm (UTC)(And this is their idea of how to appeal to Anime/Manga fans??)
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Date: 2011-11-13 09:41 am (UTC)And. I'm so glad I'm not alone. (My reading page and my roommate's cries of horror told me that I was not alone, but it's nice to know that people outside of my immediate sandbox are also upset.)
I've implemented the various stylish scripts, but holy god, I should not have to do that in order to not get a migraine. And I don't even read on Ao3; I flip over to it to pull off Kindle-formatted fics. In the five minutes it takes me to assemble a day or two's worth of fic, my head started pounding. Not okay. (And I know I cannot possibly be alone. Isn't the OTW or Ao3 committed to accessibility? Because grey on grey is seriously inaccessible. And let's not consider the panda skin. I'm trying to forget the panda skin.)
I have to ask: What were they thinking?
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Date: 2011-11-13 05:47 pm (UTC)Fortunately, there is word of an emergency deploy in the next few days to fix it back to white!
(*just kind of cries over the panda skin* It could have been good! Not something I'd use, but good for the unspeakably cute crowd! Now, if someone would just realize that anime/manga does not equal unspeakably cute crowd, we'll be getting somewhere. *sighs)
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Date: 2011-11-14 12:06 am (UTC)I just want the old margins back and a font that is a little bigger and easier to read. I'm nearsighted and eyestrain is already a problem for me -- the changes as implemented just make it worse.
I'll try copypasta-ing your Quick Fix Skin in later, when I have the energy to fight through the unfamiliar process.
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