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I'm making this post so I can add image screenshots and explanations without needing to have large images in a comment. This is specifically in response to OTW claiming that complaints about how feeds can have issues is something for the people relying on those feeds to figure out and fix individually and that it is not an issue-at-large for everyone subscribed to the feed.

So I thought I'd show my screenshots! Images and descriptions under the cut.

( RSS feeds can be weird and unreliable in unpredictable ways )

It's insulting every time OTW insists that people bringing up issues with RSS feeds don't know what they're talking about. Feeds can have issues. They're nice, but they're not reliable. In this case, ao3_news_feed hiccuped and for some reason now the 5 most recent posts are being displayed out of order on the Reading Page of everyone subscribed to it. I find it especially insulting that OTW keeps insinuating that the only reason someone would have an issue with an RSS feed is because of either their own ignorance ("Additionally, some who expressed misgivings about feed function might not be accustomed to their functions via Dreamwidth. We recommend fans subscribe to the following feed to get some familiarity with feed functionality.") or their own incompetence ("With the feed being displayed without issues on its own page, I would suspect it to be a DW issue - some skins have bugs that mess with the display.").

Edited to add: I'm leaving the screenshots as-is so that it's very clear this is exactly what I'm seeing on my Reading Page. Scans_Daily and FandomCalendar just happen to be the two communities whose public posts surround this fiasco on my Reading Page.

I am the worst combination of technological simpleton and internet power user. I don't really know coding or javascript or CSS, but I want everything to work/look exactly how I want it to. I have apparently ignited a desire to make all of the internet look better since that's what I've been doing all last night and this morning/afternoon. I am getting better at creating frankencode though, so I guess that's a plus?

I have:
-gotten annoyed that I can no longer quickly look up a URL on Delicious (thus kicking everything off)
--attempted to modify the Pinboard URL look-up bookmarklet to work for Delicious
---created something that almost worked but not really
----found a bookmarklet made by someone else that actually works
-----successfully edited said bookmarklet so that it doesn't open in a new tab

-edited my webpage color zapping bookmarklet so it zaps things into colors that don't hurt my eyes
--with the caveat that I couldn't figure out how to get hexadecimal colors to work, just HTML color names

-decided to tackle AO3 after having been buoyed by these successes
--failed to find any already created userscripts that both did something I liked and worked
---looked at AO3's create skin page and skittered away in fear
----browsed all the public skins and found some that did things I liked but weren't just right
-----went back to the create skin page
------successfully combined the bits I liked, deleted the bits I didn't like, edited the colors, and even created a tiny bit

( AO3 looks glorious now! )

I am so incredibly pleased with everything (but especially the AO3 skin because putting it all together was a lot of work for me) because now the internet feels a little bit more right.