consider this critic a cretin
...and...
so it seems LJ reset my http://www.livejournal.com/manage/comments/ log ips setting (although,. to be fair, the option now distinguishes btwn anon commenters and all commenters), as well as my http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/ theme from lynx to the horizon theme (in one of the site redesigns), over and over and over again (as they made changes), and then to the vertigo theme when that was added (although, i changed to horizon, and that stuck for a while, though it randomly went to vertigo after one "site update")
also, if you have a popups-always-in-tabs option turned on or a single-window plugin or something [in mozilla/firefox], things like "Insert/Edit Link" don't work---a new tab will open with an incomplete form with no submit buttons (and pressing enter in the text field doesn't submit anything either, due to the way their form is coded)

http://my.livejournal.com/ is still fairly complete in the lynx theme, though, which is good.

lynx-mode http://www.livejournal.com/ hasn't been updated in AGES, so there's lots of things you can't click straight to---but you can always click on the site map link (why not have an option to turn on site maps in all or some pages in lynx-theme mode?)

also, is there a way to make it so that the HTML entry is the default? (esp. when posting w/o javascript...)
when i browse the site in lynx, i get an entry page that is HTML-only, which *is* helpful... i dunno if that's just because lynx doesn't have javascript, or because of the user agent? i believe it's the user agent, b/c i seem to remember having a nonfunctional javascript entry form in mozilla when i first installed noscript, before i added livejournal to the allow-list.

or, can i make it so that two different URLs exist, one that takes me to the old, bare entry form, and one that takes me to the javascript-powered richtext/html form?
there used to be a distinction between update.bml and update.bml?mode=full, where the default didn't have post-to, userpic, friends-groups, allow-comments, (and when screening was implemented) comment-screening, iirc.
of course, i almost always needed the full form, so i still mentally type livejournal.com/update.bml?mode=full -- heh..
but, i don't think mode= makes a difference any more.  i don't see a difference, anyway...

it'd be nice to have a mode=htmlonly or mode=light and/or mode=nojavascriptnomatterwhat or whatever... and, of course, in lynx-theme, regardless of user agent, there should be link(s) on the page for this(/these) alternate form mode(s)