oh, hai! This is heartening!

[majorshipper]

The internet can at the very least try and fix things. For those who are interested, there's a stylish script that tries to help clean up the gradients and stuff for the new LJ, if anyone's interested (it's not perfect, but I like the way it works, so I'm using it on top of the rest of my LJ scripts);
http://userstyles.org/styles/58266/livejournal-flat-colors

I also highly recommend this other script, because it's pretty awesome for LJ.;
http://userstyles.org/styles/25941/livejournal-modern-customizable

And if you don't have stylish, I am judging you, it's an awesome FF(and Chrome!) add-on that lets you customize any page with CSS and HTML. Works really nice with LJ, YT, Tumblr, FB(which I don't use, but I guess some do), and Google. And there are lots that can help darkify your browser, which is useful if you're like me and you do a lot of browsing when the light's not the best.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

(PS; I FEEL LIKE I HAVEN'T BEEN USING MY LJ FAIL TAG ENOUGH. HERE IT IS!)