Revamping the entry page in Site Updates

Anything you could do to fix the "putting in two spaces at the end of poetry or lyrics to make them display correctly" awkward workaround around would be awesome. Just me personally, I write a lot of poetry and lyrics and... it's actively making it hard for me to get used to this place.

I like the changes so far. :3

Definitely an improvement.

definitely loving the increased font size, it makes a huge difference.

Hey, I'm just stoked that this site A.) works and B.) I can get here via my phone.

Will there be any changes coming soon to the staging of the bookmarks list anytime soon?

Not a huge fan of the bigger font. But I do get that it's more readable. Maybe a customization we'll be able to tweak on our own someday down the road?

looks great! I love the simplicity of everything. My OCD finds it soothing.

I love the bigger font. The only thing I struggle with is having to scroll all the way down in order to read a previous entry. i.e. I have a large bookmarks list. If I know that one of my bookmarks has updated twice since I last saw them, I click on their most recent entry that's right at the top of my bookmarks. But knowing that I want to go back an entry, I have to scroll all the way down to find the "previous" button under "more entries". Not that big of a deal, but eh... I liked it in the beginning when you could navigate entries from the top of the page. Could just be me though. :)

a bigger font puhleeze!

I'm in the process of moving my 1800 entries from opendiary here, as are a ton of other people. It's like Scarface. All the outlaws from cuba...er...od...have hopped on a rowboat and are ending up on your shore with our crime, drugs, bad manners, and terrible taste in cars. I appreciate everything about this site. The one thing I would suggest is to change the formatting so a single "enter" moves text to a new line. It appears that way when writing an entry or a note, but upon posting, it ends up being one big paragraph.

Double enter works.
And I did read the double space trick that was posted.
But When it comes to copying and pasting almost two thousand entries, going through and reformatting each one is a daunting task.

Also, an edit note button would be sweet. But I'm not complaining about anything, I'm just thankful you're here.

It's gigantic on my iPad. I'm afraid people will be able to read over my shoulder. Perhaps an option to customize the font size to our liking? I'd also like to change fonts independent of the color scheme. I want a serif font, no matter my colors.

Thank you for everything you're doing here. It's a wonderful site and I'm very thankful you're improving it for us.

I will agree with an above noter. I really like being able to reply to a note. But what I have found on my write a diary page is that when I click on the preview I get a blank page. The last time it just didn't work. The time before it did and that made me happy.

I am kind of glad that I'm not friends with the person moving 1800 entries because they would all show up as a new bookmark and completely fill that part of my diary.

Oh, yes, I also like that Back to top button. :)

I'm afraid the font looks GIGANTIC to me... perhaps in Settings we can choose which size we prefer?

I am a digging the increased font size all good.

I like the changes, however I would like an option to change it if necessary. If one is using a public computer you could totally be a noser and read what the other is reading and/ or writing about. ITS H U G E on my ipad. Love the reply thingey to notes.

I see that most of the pictures are hosted from other websites( photobucket, etc) and you use html gobbidy gook when posting a picture in your entry. I understand SOME html but others might scratch their heads and go, "what?"

Also, maybe you could do a tag system on entries in different books. i.e .. say i make a cooking one. one tag could be, "cake pops" and another could be "cookies." The more you write about "cookies" the bigger it gets. I like to see how much I write about "stuff". :)

Be well. :)

I realise that I dont need my reading glasses anymore in here. :)

I thought I was going crazy and I had accidentally changed the zoom on my browser! lol Glad its not me. It is easier to read. :)

Dude, what's with all the clear, friendly, helpful communication? You're making it difficult to feel all slighted and marginalized by The Powers That Be when you do this. THIS IS NOT HOW THIS IS SUPPOSED TO WORK.

I'm the local chapter president of the Cambria Font fan club.

Yeah the font is huge on an Ipad. Can you build in options so we can adjust the size? Also maybe the ads should go in the margins.

I don't like the font size, it's huge! I thought I'd accidentally zoomed in on the page. x

I love it!

The font size was perfect before. I feel like I'm reading one of those large print phonebooks that my grandparents used to have. It would be really nice to give us a choice on this since it's clear a lot of people find this doesn't look very good.

I do not hate the font change. I COULD NOT SEE IT BEFORE!!! One of the reasons I didn't like to write here. And it looks much better. THANK YOU!!! I'm sure eventually you'll make it so those who don't like the larger font can change it. Thanks again hun for catering to us "old people" ...haha. We appreciate. :-)

The larger font kinda makes me feel like people can read over my shoulder easier... lol.

Georgia font = YES Humungo = NO

If there were a way to increase/decrease the default font size for just your own entries, I would be happy to live with it for everything else. Otherwise I respectfully request it be made a wee bit smaller. I'd rather not use markup but I will if I have to :)

But having more space is great! Column width adjustment is nicey nice. Thank you!

I'm in favor of smaller fonts myself, to reduce the amount of scrolling needed. For those with presbyopia, drug stores do have an extensive variety of styles of reading glasses for $15 or less.

Loving the changes!

Yeah, the more I see the Reader's Digest Large Type Edition Prosebox the less I like it. I even tried View / Zoom Out on my browser to see if that would help. Bleh. But I guess I'll get used to it...

Hi

Keep up the good work. I noticed a few but not all these changes.

Can you add the following features...when you get a chance.

Instead of 'next and previous' buttons on the navigation bar, for current authors, place 'first', 'previous', 'next', 'last' buttons below 'leave comment' button. It will make navigation across entries of the favorite book easier.

Implement an XML import, so that OD entries and its notes can be imported here. This will establish this site quickly among the community.

Thank you.

Okay, I think I am in the minority here & I realize not everyone will be happy with change. BUT -- I don't like the huge-ass font. I love Georgia, that is great. But the huge font? Eh. I prefer smaller. I definitely second a previous noters comment about customizing font on the toolbar in an entry that way.

STILL -- thank you for keeping us so up-to-date on the changes you make & for everything you do!

Definitely noticed the difference on my phone! Thank you :)

You really need to move the navigation bar UP the screen to put it above the help box and the 'search' box. There's no way to get to a person's previous entry without a whole lot of scrolling!

I'm with a few people who find the font a bit too big. What would be great, is if we could have the same sorts of options on the toolbar as the OD entry did - so to amend our own text size, to add colour to the font and so on.

Can't say that I like the bigger font. Entries become huge, if you like to write a lot.

I realize I am being picky, but I prefer the old font. :(

I don't mean to complain... but I am not a fan of the huge font. Maybe compromise and make it smaller than this but bigger than the one we used to have?

Most accessibility guidelines recommend 12 point fonts for screen reading. Serif fonts are fine on high resolution displays; some phones don't render them well, and they're hard to read.

I thought the font you had originally as the default was fine, but that's just me.

It would be wonderful if others could change that default to different point sizes and font faces... but I wish they could change it for themselves only, and not for everyone who reads them, like themes are now.

Right now? It is PERFECT. Love it :D

Got a question for ya that just occurred to me. With taking the boxes away on our entries; when you introduce backgrounds how is that going to work? What I mean is with the boxes the entry wouldn't need to be read on the background making it easily readable and without the boxes the writing will be right on the background that could possibly be quite busy which would obscure the view.

I actually find the larger font difficult. I agree that a customizable option would be best, because most everyone will agree that super tiny font is not good, going larger, from a typesetting stand point, is also not good. You get a new set of problems the larger and more spaced out a font gets. For me, it tires out my eyes and sometimes gives me a headache. And I could go on and on, but I know typesetting isn't as exciting for most people as it is for me. :p

Simply controlling the font on your browser is much easier (and enables each person to control how websites look to them individually) than making an entire website have larger font for a certain, sometimes small, group of individuals.

Every browser has a way to control font size. For Firefox, it's under "View" and "Zoom" or you can simply press and hold (on your keyboard) Control (Ctrl) while at the same time typing ++ (that's the plus sign twice). To zoom out press and hold Control (Ctrl) while at the same time typing -- (that's the minus sign twice). This works on every website with Firefox and is site wide, so once you set it for a website, it will be that way every time you visit it.

I know there are methods to do this with every browser, so if you need help to minimize OR maximize a website's text size, simply Google the name of your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc.) and increase/decrease font size. You should then have a list of helpful instructions to aide in accomplishing your desired effect.

Lol - this whole comment section has cracked me up! Every one has an opinion and they are going to share it with you whether you like it or not.

And you had the audacity to change something on a free site...

Me, I'm just glad I'm not in a sinking boat anymore. You're doing a grand job :)

Hi

What is 'your' thought process behind having the ability to create books? How is it different from having a single diary but various chapters and entries in those chapters?Or in a OD fashion, one book per user and the user decides whether an entry can be private, friends only, members only, and public?

Just interested in understanding your philosophy.

I'm a fan of Georgia so I approve of its use. I appreciate that you're taking the time to better this place. Just wondering if you'd considered putting a "reply" link directly on each comment, which, when clicked, could expand a comment box? I would prefer to reply directly from my comments page, rather than going to each entry. Thanks.

The font size is suddenly huge again. Really don't like it, sorry :( x

I don't like the larger font that much, though I can understand the readability issue. Maybe an option so we can choose our own font sizes?

when i first came on here, i could "bookmark" diaries, now i do not find that option at all. I can only "friend" or "follow" new diaries. Why is this?

thanks so much for clarifying that for me. i'll change them to follow now.