Livre d'Or

Like liv's, my phone's recent enough that it's quite happy displaying the web site, but I often find that it doesn't make brilliant use of limited screen space sometimes, any post with a wide image means that I have to scroll left and right a lot in order to read things, I have to poll the site rather than getting phone notifications of replies or any of the other things I've got used to now, and generally the ergonomics are a bit of a pain. AJAX stuff can certainly help make a site feel "modern" or whatever but as siderea points out above it has its own set of problems, even on modern devices it can easily end up rather hard on limited battery power, and I don't think it ever stands a chance of doing notifications well (OK, I could probably work around that part by having the e-mail notifications sent to gmail). Much though I'm unhappy with the divisions they create - speaking among other things as a developer of a minority phone OS, albeit a high-end one! - the local maximum for me for now would be a reasonable Android app.

So, I tried out a few LiveJournal-model-based apps recently in the hope that they would make it easier for me to use LJ/DW on my phone. The official LiveJournal app feels very pleasant to use (much to my surprise, to be honest, as I've stopped expecting great things from LJ). Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it only supports livejournal.com. ElJay supports multiple LJ-style sites and seems OK for livejournal.com itself, but its friends page support doesn't work for anything else "due to lack of support from those sites". After that the available apps seem to get very dubious very quickly.

I'd be very interested in specific recommendations of apps, or whether there are known workarounds for this kind of thing. In some ways I really miss the LJ/DW-style community, and have been thinking that some effort to fit it into the way I tend to use most of the web nowadays might be the best way to get myself back into it more.

Ironically, while I still read LJ, I find that various bugs in the web site usually conspire to make it impossible to post comments ... from my desktop!