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

[kore]

I believe my mistake was in using the site skin because it was the easiest thing for me to read and now it is so, so not.

Well, FUCK.

I think it looks normal to me, it looks like this? This is automatically in my own blog style -- screenshot here https://kore.dreamwidth.org/file/70211.png

[sovay]

I think it looks normal to me, it looks like this? This is automatically in my own blog style -- screenshot here

Yeah, allowing for the difference in styles (and the addition of the HTML drop-down menu), that looks like a normal comments box to me. Mine . . . does not look like that.

[kore]

JESUS CHRIST

Yeah I'm not seeing anything like that, WTF. Maybe installing that custom CSS might help?

https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/1181732.html

I mean, this is used to mute commentators, but I think it might be helping by forcing my style? IDK.

[rachelmanija]

UGH.

I looked over the comments and if the issue is accessibility, then I don't understand why they're not preserving the option to revert to the old style given the large number of people saying the site has suddenly become inaccessible for them.

(I apparently am using one of the unaffected styles.)

[sovay]

I looked over the comments and if the issue is accessibility, then I don't understand why they're not preserving the option to revert to the old style given the large number of people saying the site has suddenly become inaccessible for them.

I hope they institute one. I have gone temporary since the alternative is going off DW.

(I apparently am using one of the unaffected styles.)

(I'm glad! I do not in fact believe my friends need to suffer with me. I kind of prefer it when they don't.)