moragmacpherson: (TARDIS)
moragmacpherson ([personal profile] moragmacpherson) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance 2011-07-28 08:36 pm (UTC)

For LJ refugees: comment pages

I'm part of a community that had set up a ICE community over here back in April. It didn't get used much because none of us could figure out how to have a plain style comments page to track our (often extensive) threads (and also the way I prefer to display my fic, in order to maximize screen space). So I started experimenting and after some wrangling, I figured out how to get plain comment pages for both your own journal and your comm here. It's actually rather simple - though the big catch is that the comm can't change the settings for everyone - each member has to do it individually.

1) Go to account settings.
2) On the settings page, select the "Display" tab
3) Scroll down the options until you reach "Entry View Style" -- it's right after "Site Skin". Choose to view Entry Pages in Light Format.
4) Scroll down just a few more options to "Comment Pages" and tick the box that says "View comment pages in your own journal style"
5) Save changes

I think the main reason it took so long for me to figure this out was because of I had no idea what an entry page is - it appears to be the same thing as a comment page so my eyes kept glazing right over it - a little consistency in the terminology might help make this more intuitive.

Also, adding to option for communities to make their default comments/entry page Light Format (or even Site Format) might be helpful.

Sorry for adding to the server snarl in figuring all this out, and I hope this is the right place to post it - I'm still learning my way around here - let me know if there's a better place to put it.

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