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Karen ([personal profile] karen2205) wrote2007-11-08 08:38 pm

Making LiveJournal useable

LiveJournal has been becoming increasing unuseable, possibly since I started using it in 2003. I keep having to find workarounds for 'features' and other things I don't want.

Things I'm currently doing:

*have paid account to avoid advertising [yes, I do realise there are other ways of doing this]
*have custom style to remove user pics from my friends' page
*use of image placeholders
*lots of Greasemonkey scripts to get rid of the annoying CProd boxes, unthread threaded comments, get rid of that awful navigation strip, getting rid of other people's forced fonts etc.
*AdBlock Plus to get rid of snapshot previews
*Privacy settings to disable receipt of virtual gifts, the nudge feature, the collecting anonymous statistics through the hitbox replacement thing, the new private messaging thing.

What things have you done to make LiveJournal useable for you?
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just waiting till private messages start to get used for spam.