Pro tip

[dira]

Sometimes the reason LJ suddenly looks really strange and won't let you change to a different less-strange style and also no one seems to be posting is YOU ARE LOGGED OUT.

Comments

[ambersnake]

I've had that happen to me way too many times. And it still takes me a while to figure out why it's weird!

[dira]

It oddly hadn't happened to me in a long time--or at least didn't get as far as me being like "why does everything look so strange??" before I figured it out. Maybe next time I will remember this?

[bluflamingo]

Can't be brilliant all the time :)

[dira]

Alas :)

[beck_liz]

Yeah, it's always unsettling when that happens. "What happened to my friends page??!!!"

[dira]

Right? And it's LiveJournal, so it seemed perfectly POSSIBLE that there was no way to not view the stupid new friends feed page, and also that no one had posted for three days.

[krait]

Hahaha, I do this on AO3 about once a month - "Whoa, why are all the colours wrong? Wait, is the top of the page subtly different? WHO TOOK AWAY THE LATER AND BOOKMARK BUTTONS THAT IS SO STUPID I CAN'T BELIEV- oh, yeah, I didn't login!" *facepalming mightily*

[dira]

And see with LiveJournal it seems TOTALLY PLAUSIBLE that they would just change the friends page view and not let you change it back! So I was just like "ugh this is the worst" but then accepted it. *g*

[krait]

It would. :D I think we're all ready to believe the worst of LJ when it comes to stupid decisions, both design-related and otherwise... *wry* Though Tumblr users seem to have it even worse, from what I can tell!

[dira]

Yeahhhh, Tumblr is actively the worst. :\

[azurelunatic]

Oh god, the way I attempted to make it go back to my friends page instead of the triple-damned Feed. (FEED is for *zombies*, LJ. Get it right.)

[dira]

RIGHT? I was just like. WHY WON'T IT LET ME MODIFY MY JOURNAL STYLE?? DO FREE USERS ONLY GET DEFAULTS NOW? No bb, PEOPLE WHO ARE LOGGED OUT only get defaults.