Eyestrain Settings

[rowyn]

I can't be the only person who's had this issue. What do you do when someone has set their LJ up in a manner you find so eyestraining -- either due to color scheme or font size or whatever -- that you find you'd rather skip their cut-tagged entries rather than read under those defaults?

Do you say something to the person in question? Do you adjust things on your end (I seem to recall it's possible to override the personal settings and force all LJs to appear in your chosen mode)? Cut 'n paste cut-tagged entries into a notepad file to read them? Just skip the entries and don't worry about it?

Conversely: if someone found your journal's settings unpleasant to look at, would you rather they said something so you'd know, or would you consider it rude if they voiced their opinion?

I know I'd rather know. But then again, I've never bothered to change the style on individual entries, so my chosen style would only be an issue for people who read directly from my journal, as opposed to from their friends list. On the other hand, I recently switched styles on unfinishedtales, and have been wondering since then if the new style causes trouble for readers (it seems to scroll slower to me). Aha, and Lut just noted that this is a problem for him, too. Methinks I need to switch it off. Hmm. I'm thinking that if you want people to tell you if your journal style is annoying, you need to ask them directly, rather than expecting comments if it's a problem.

Comments

[rowyn]

No, but some people not only have defaults set for their main page, but the individual entries have their own styles, as well. prester_scott, for example. If you go to leave a comment in his journal, or look at a cut-tagged entry, you're looking at his own style, rather than at the default blue-and-white version. (And no, I have no complaints with Prester Scott's style.) :)

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

Yes I see...I had sort of noticed that
sometimes I was thrust into trying to write
a reply in a place where I could hardly read
the thing or understand what to click etc...
hadnt realized qhite how that worked...
never did anything beyond the basic blue
and white thing myself.
never purely grasped what is the interest of
creating all sorts of styles...
but maybe it is because I am in some ways kind of
lacking in style. remarked to someone who disliked
bob dylan's voice yesterday that I had always
thought it was the epitome of cool to which they
replied questioning whether I would know what
the epitome of cool was...and likely *sigh*
they are right. :)
but I think I can say it is not pink text on a light green
page or something...
+Seraphim

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

I'm sensitive to the hard-on-the-eyes problem, so I picked a mild color scheme.