Question for Discussion...

[freetrav]

As you probably know, Livejournal allows you to append ?style=mine or &style=mine to a LJ URL. Doing so causes the LJ page to be displayed in the style of the viewer's LJ (if the page admits of having user styles applied). This may (probably will) be different from the style that the page's author (i.e., the owner of the LJ) chose to present his/her journal in.

Question the first

: How do you feel about using this when you are viewing someone else's LJ? Why do you chose to do it?

Question the second

: How do you feel about others using this when they view your LJ? Why?

This is deliberately not a poll, just an open question; comment and discussion is invited.

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I use it by default, because it's easier for me to read black on white than random assorted on different. For the same reason I never assign colors to people in my flist, either. I'm text-based, I want to hear what people say. How they present themselves is interesting to me too, but not in an everyday-way. I may well know/remember that this person I'm reading is really a lovely and perfectly legible lavender, and this other is a morbid dark-grey-on-black, but if I want a reminder, I'll go and get it. In the meantime, I prefer just the text to read, as that way I can go through it much, much faster, and stand a chance of staying semi-current on the contents.

As for my own journal - I optimized for simplicity and legibility-to-me. I never _use_ graphical or style-based elements beyond a choice of tiny collection of icons. Those who view it in their own style are most welcome to it, as there's nothing whatsoever lost.