Grr

[cjsmith]

I'm getting really tired of my Friends page being seriously screwed up by badly-formatted entries people make. Today I'm guessing it's quiz results. An entry I can't see makes everything below itself almost completely unreadable.

Friends filters work, but to use them I have to find out who the problem child is. This is particularly difficult to narrow down when multiple people have the same problem; searching the solution space becomes slow! The slowness is aggravated by LJ's "optimization" on Friends page loading, such that I have to hit "reload" to get actual results from each experiment. (I wasted a lot of time getting nonsensical and conflicting results before I learned this.)

Today two or three iterations with existing friends groups showed me a subgroup of ten people I could remove just to get a viewable page. I re-added them one by one, a process taking about fifteen minutes with all the clicking around and reloading, and came up with two people filtered out.

*sigh* And I wonder why LJ takes up so much of my time.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I had to change to a different 'style' setting for my friends page last night when it got clobbered by something. My initial suspicion was bad HTML too, but now I think it might have been a corruption of the LJ database.

Anyhow, the 'indented' style is working pretty well for me. It's either the last or second to last of the style options available.

There's a separate LJ problem right now with some LJ cut text not coming up in the spawned window when you want to read it. I have a support request filed concerning that. There was some database maintenance scheduled for yesterday afternoon, which may be tied in with all this.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've seen the LJ cut issue too, once, earlier today. Ah well. Fortunately, at least there ARE workarounds for the friends page issues...

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll try it out some time!