On the recent Livejournal bullshit
Sorry to those who get this more than once, I'm posting to both my personal and my fanworks journal.
Okay, Livejournal's newest upgrade mostly sucks. If that's all this was, people would complain, issues would get fixed or we'd adjust, life goes on. But the site admin, particularly igrick, the head of LJ Russia, have been dismissive and condescending. They ignored the negative feedback on the beta and pushed the upgrade through anyway. Specific complaints were brushed off, or even called "spam." I'm willing to believe that the automatic payment settings being switched on was a glitch, but when users complained about it the manager of LJ's support group accused them of lying.
On top of this recent fiasco, LJ staffers have been known to abuse their power for years.
What am I getting from all this? That they don't care about us, the users. They don't care about how we use the site, what features we use or don't use. They don't care about providing the best site for us or even about preserving the site we've been using for years. They don't care about treating us fairly, or listening to our concerns. Those who post in LJ news and updates are making the right noises, but what's coming down from admin paints a completely different picture.
Both of these journals - dragonimp and impishclawmarks - have been being mirrored over on Dreamwidth,
dragonimp, and I would really, really like it if activity moved over there. Account creation - I believe - is open until the 1st, and they make importing your journal from LJ really easy. The community importer should be up in the next few weeks. You can also comment with open ID. I'll still crosspost to LJ for the time being, but I'm considering dropping these accounts down to basic.
Bottom line, I don't trust LJ not to screw us over and I would rather be there as little as possible.
Okay, Livejournal's newest upgrade mostly sucks. If that's all this was, people would complain, issues would get fixed or we'd adjust, life goes on. But the site admin, particularly igrick, the head of LJ Russia, have been dismissive and condescending. They ignored the negative feedback on the beta and pushed the upgrade through anyway. Specific complaints were brushed off, or even called "spam." I'm willing to believe that the automatic payment settings being switched on was a glitch, but when users complained about it the manager of LJ's support group accused them of lying.
On top of this recent fiasco, LJ staffers have been known to abuse their power for years.
What am I getting from all this? That they don't care about us, the users. They don't care about how we use the site, what features we use or don't use. They don't care about providing the best site for us or even about preserving the site we've been using for years. They don't care about treating us fairly, or listening to our concerns. Those who post in LJ news and updates are making the right noises, but what's coming down from admin paints a completely different picture.
Both of these journals - dragonimp and impishclawmarks - have been being mirrored over on Dreamwidth,
dragonimp, and I would really, really like it if activity moved over there. Account creation - I believe - is open until the 1st, and they make importing your journal from LJ really easy. The community importer should be up in the next few weeks. You can also comment with open ID. I'll still crosspost to LJ for the time being, but I'm considering dropping these accounts down to basic.
Bottom line, I don't trust LJ not to screw us over and I would rather be there as little as possible.