Friends Freinds Friends...

[ffutures]

As a break from writing I've just gone through my Friends list, deleted a couple, and added fifteen or twenty people who have friended me and seem to be reasonably interesting on a VERY fast scan of their recent entries. Got through about half of them before apathy set in, I'll try to take a proper look at the rest sooner or later.

Note: If your journal uses tiny pastel letters on a pastel background, or tiny white letters on a black background, I probably didn't friend you irrespective of other merits because I couldn't be arsed to strain my eyes reading your journal. Sorry about that.

Comments

[ckd]

The color scheme issue is why I've set my preferences to have entry links (comments or cut tags) on my friend pages use "?style=mine", so mine eyes bleed not.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think mine works that way too, but to look at people I haven't friended I had to look at the pages in their native format. Argh, my eyes...

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's why I want to be able to over-ride their settings globally (and not globlaly, as I just failed to notice before I posted!) Though no doubt some people wpuld be horribly offended that I don't want to see their carefully constructed purple-on-black scheme, or red on yellow in one particularly vile case I encountered. It's the effort people put into making it unreadable that amazes me most. I suppose they desparately want to be different and individual but lack any meaningful way of achieving that status. Sorry, I'm ranting again aren't I?

[ckd]

You can always manually add "?style=mine" to the URL (or "&style=mine" in those cases where there is already a parameter list). I do wish I could make it a global setting (as original_aj does), but at least that's an easy enough fix.

(I even have that string as a shortcut on my Palm, so that I can more easily add it to LiveJournal URLs.)

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of doing it that way. Thanks!

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

That's a very useful feature. I was very glad when I found it! Now if there was some way to make it a globla setting while you're logged in....