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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-07-25 11:09 pm

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

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.
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[personal profile] muccamukk 2020-07-26 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That all sounds terrible. I really hope that they make an option to switch it back permanently soon.

I feel for the devs because they're under SO MUCH pressure to make the site better on mobile, but they really screwed up on this implementation.

My style didn't get hit, but the icon browser has gone DEEPLY weird.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-07-26 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't think to check my icon browser!

GACK. I usually just pick from the dropdown menu of keywords, but the Browse layout is kind of just bad right now.
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[personal profile] muccamukk 2020-07-26 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems like the current plan is to fix the existing issues with the new features before the temp revert vanishes in a couple months. Will be good if it works!

It just looks wonky, idk. The no text setting once selected is better. I do appreciate that some things that I remember as being especial vile on Nenya's phone do seem to be fixed.