06 April 2012 @ 06:06 pm
ugh livejournal  
I don't really expect anyone to have an answer for me but:

Since LJ changed its comment pages to be useless and horrible, I've been using my layout for everything. It has one of those pop-up icon selector thingies and that's how I usually select my icons. Buuuut in the last day or two, suddenly any icon with an apostrophe in the keywords can't really be selected? The apostrophe seems to break and instead displays as "&39;" or something, and if I click that icon in the selector and then go back to the comment, the comment is still posted with a default icon.




^ As you can see, the Britta icon and the ~Ballad of Russell and Julie~ icon have broken keywords but the others are fine. If I click either of them and hit 'select', it doesn't do anything. If I just select from the drop-down, the apostrophes display fine and I can use any of them.

This has worked for like literally years and then just stopped abruptly so I imagine it'd be something with LJ and not the code but... idk, figured I'd throw it out there. I would ask the person who made the layout, but I think they have since left LJ, the comm looks dead.
 
 
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Circe: thumpredcirce on April 6th, 2012 11:32 pm (UTC)
I don't have anything useful to say, but I wanted add that I just checked my icons and it's not only apostrophes- ampersands and angle brackets also break the icon selector. I'm guessing it's a LJ wide thing, and I would imagine they're not going to fix it unless a billion people complain.
Kali_thirty2flavors on April 6th, 2012 11:42 pm (UTC)
Hmmmmmmm, Is this for the one on my layout or on another layout?
Circeredcirce on April 6th, 2012 11:50 pm (UTC)
I have everything set to "my style", so it's the same on all layouts. My layout is based on Flexible Squares though, if that helps? I just popped over to a page with the new gross comments box though, and the pop up icon selector there is working fine. :/
Kali_thirty2flavors on April 6th, 2012 11:59 pm (UTC)
Ughhhhhhhhh that clearly means they
a) fucked something up
b) will never fix it because the shitty new comments page still work
Circe: accurate lizardredcirce on April 7th, 2012 12:15 am (UTC)
icon represents LJ
...yeah, I didn't want to say that, but yeah.

It looks like it's only affecting characters used in html though? So if you remove those particular characters I'm guessing it will still work?

I use the text selector for comments and crosspost from another site, so it doesn't affect me directly, but I feel bad for all of those people that have like, chunks of poetry as their icon keywords...
Kali: dw :: cloen/rose :: he needs you_thirty2flavors on April 7th, 2012 12:50 am (UTC)
Re: icon represents LJ
Changing my keywords now messes up past entries and stuff! Which I guess isn't super important but ugh, LJ I HAD A SYSTEMMM. Plus come on, apostrophes! Apostrophes are pretty common and useful! Step on legos, lj.