LJ parent comments?

[rusty_halo]

So now that LJ has removed the “parent” link from comment threads, if you click on a fic rec from delicious and it takes you to a kink meme fill, how in the world do you find out what the prompt was?

(Sorry for all the questions, I have been away from the fannish internet for a while [trapped in a vortex of WORK], and now that I am venturing back, things have changed in strange ways.)

Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.

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[carolyn_claire]

I think once you follow the link you can change the URL from "thread" to "view" and you'll see the thread in context on the page, so you're able to s the parent comment.

[rusty_halo]

Ah, that did it. What a pain. (Especially from a mobile device.) *sigh*

Thank you for the help! :)

[netweight]

I'm glad you have a bit of time now, and can return (even if it isn't permanent and you're sucked back into the work vortex?). You missed so much drama with the implementation of changes in LJ (complete with amusing side comments like, "in Russian fandom, Internet trolls you"). But on the SPN kink memes, at least, the communities adopted designs to work around the amazing fail. I dunno about memes in other fandoms though.

[rusty_halo]

I am really making an effort to live life a bit instead of just working constantly. I am still in the midst of this insane, unending project, but the facts that it is insane and unending are kind of leaving me to think, you know, no matter how hard I work, it's going to continue sucking, so why should I put all of myself into it?

OMG I wish fandom would just move to Dreamwidth already. The LJ commenting system is such a pain in the ass these days, especially from a mobile device (which is still where I do 95% of my reading). Plus, the writing is on the wall that LJ is on its way down, and the sooner fandom moves to DW, the less fanwork will be lost when LJ finally crashes. *sigh*

I am pleased that fandomsecrets moved to DW... hoping more will follow. All the kink memes should move--people post anon there anyway, and DW has the full-featured commenting system plus a way bigger character limit. *hopes*

[netweight]

Very sensible. Also, YAY! It will be good to have you around again. :)

I'm running 3 scripts on Stylish to override the new LJ format on comment pages, because I am one of those people who gets eyestrain from it. :/

I'm not really sure what people are waiting for. The changes made the site less functional and less fitted for the purposes fandom uses it for. Not to mention, the way the changes were implemented made clear LJ does not give a shit about its user base (and yeah, does make one question their overall competence given how many complaints there were about stuff just plain not working). But you can bet it will take them totally fucking up and/or screwing us over for people to do anything. I hope they don't totally crash or, at least, that they don't crash before some partial move is accomplished - man, that would be ten years of fannish history down the drain. The thing is that I feel fandom will scatter through platforms - it's pretty much already happening. That isn't bad per se, but it was a lot easier to have most things concentrated in one place.

The times, they are changing.