There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out

[sovay]

So I got home to discover the latest code push from Dreamwidth has effectively broken the site for me. I left a comment to that effect. It does not look as though my comment will make a difference.

I understand accessibility is complicated. This journal and DW in general was one of the few things in my life right now that did not cause me active pain. It was in fact rather sustaining. That has just sharply ceased to be the case. I have no idea what to do. I left LJ for DW. I had planned to stay here until they turned out the lights because I trusted them not to hurt me. Now my eyes hurt. I am a text-oriented person who cannot comfortably interact with the text-based form of social media which is very nearly the whole of my life online. There's nowhere to go from here. (I can't even think about the effects on my Patreon.) I am tired of being a person whose needs are disposable. I am very, very, very not happy.

[edit 2020-07-26 1:21:00] I have temporarily reverted to the old style because the alternative appears to be verging on a migraine. And perhaps in a year the horse will learn to sing.

Comments

[sholio]

Oh no, I'm so sorry! :((( That's awful, and I hope you're able to get some kind of fix that will put it back how it was for you. They should at least have that as some kind of site-skin option for people; it's bizarre to me that they don't.

[sovay]

That's awful, and I hope you're able to get some kind of fix that will put it back how it was for you. They should at least have that as some kind of site-skin option for people; it's bizarre to me that they don't.

Thank you. I am upset that there is no option to revert permanently to the previous style. The temporary reversion feels like a snare and a delusion and way too much like the sorts of stunt Facebook and Google pull. [edit] I went for it anyway, because the changes hurt too much.

[sholio]

I'm really sorry. I think it's very unfair (and actually kind of baffling to me) that they don't provide some sort of built-in way to at least simulate the old look, even if the underlying functionality is different. It seems like an especially strange decision for a site like Dreamwidth, where so much of their core userbase are longtime users who are not going to respond well to abrupt changes.

[sovay]

It seems like an especially strange decision for a site like Dreamwidth, where so much of their core userbase are longtime users who are not going to respond well to abrupt changes.

Honestly, agreed. I have not been wild about all of their alterations, but none of them until now have made the site impossible for me, and yet all of a sudden that's what it was.

[lauradi7dw]

I'm reading this on an iPad and the posts looks the same to me, but the reply words are wider spaced. I also use a flip phone and dislike things that assume mobile use for other devices.