question!!!

[oh_amelia]

How come sometimes on people's LJs the same style of their LJ comes up when you click on it to make a comment or read behind a cut, and sometimes something like shows up instead?

I've always wondered about that. Is is something in the settings or what?

Comments

[jittrbugg.livejournal.com]

if they have a paid account, the style stays with it! If it's basic... it goes back to the default styles except for the main journal page. not so sure about the plus accounts though.

[jittrbugg.livejournal.com]

wait... is that even what you were asking? lol

[oh-amelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That is what I was asking.

[bine110987.livejournal.com]

I actually always wondered the same thing, because honestly it's better to read fics from these pages as from the entries, but I can't figure out how it works either.

[oh-amelia.livejournal.com]

So, i figured it thanks to jittrgugg.

If the person has a basic account it will show up like that screen. If they have a plus or higher it will show up just like the format of the LJ. And when I looked at my flist and the people with basic accounts all went to that screen.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, you can decide yourself if a cut to your journal should open in your usual LJ style or if it should go back to that default white page (as shown in your picture up there). It's in the settings somewhere. I'd never heard before that it depends on your status (paid, permanent, basic account, etc). I could easily be wrong, I'm not that much of a wizard, but I seem to remember checking some box or other in the settings when I put up my layout two years ago.

One other thing, which I find quite helpful (AND am actually sure about lol) is that you can make any entry you want to read in your style by adding ?style=mine to a URL.

http://seanmegansean.livejournal.com/205677.html
http://seanmegansean.livejournal.com/205677.html?style=mine

Try it, it should make a difference :) I find this useful for reading fic, when the default font of the writer is too dark/small, etc.

[oh-amelia.livejournal.com]

I use the ?style=mine sometimes too. Though, the first time I saw it happen I was a little weirded out thinking, 'why does this person have the exact same layout as me? header and everything!" lol Then I saw in the address bar the ?style=mine.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

In whatever options page it is, I do have the "show all entries as mine" checked, but that doesn't always work. I was sooo relieved to find that option, lemme tell you. There are a lot of people who must have *lots* better vision than I do because I don't know how in the hell they can read their own journals given the colors and fonts they choose. Give me black text on a white background in a 10 or 12 pt font, baby! ;))

Where I mostly notice it doesn't work is on an entry in a comm where the cutline referral is back to the original LJ rather than just hiding the entry behind a cut on the comm itself. If that makes sense. Better said, I guess, would be you write a fic and really post it on bjfic.com behind a cut. Then, when I click the cut, I see the entry in my LJ style. If you write a fic on your own LJ and then just post a link on bjfic.com that takes me back to your LJ, then I'm going to see the fic in your style until I add the ?style=mine at the end of addy there in your journal.

And then there's the v.v. weird anomaly of someone's LJ (can't remember whose) who posts in the tiniest font and that, no matter what I do, the font doesn't show up in my default font. The style of the entry is my own, but the font isn't. I'm clueless on that one.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Give me black text on a white background in a 10 or 12 pt font, baby! ;)) Oh, I agree :)

Where I mostly notice it doesn't work is on an entry in a comm where the cutline referral is back to the original LJ rather than just hiding the entry behind a cut on the comm itself. If that makes sense. Better said, I guess, would be you write a fic and really post it on bjfic.com behind a cut. Then, when I click the cut, I see the entry in my LJ style. If you write a fic on your own LJ and then just post a link on bjfic.com that takes me back to your LJ, then I'm going to see the fic in your style until I add the ?style=mine at the end of addy there in your journal. Hmm, interesting. Had never noticed that before, although that might just be due to the fact that I hardly read any fic anymore these days. Knew there had to be an upside to that ;b

And then there's the v.v. weird anomaly of someone's LJ (can't remember whose) who posts in the tiniest font and that, no matter what I do, the font doesn't show up in my default font. The style of the entry is my own, but the font isn't. I'm clueless on that one. That is very odd indeed. Never came across that either. Maybe it's someone's LJ who's really savvy with all the computer stuff and has some overrides installed or something? Or it's just LJ in its infinite wisdom - always an option ;)