Goodbye LJ
http://www.fastcompany.com/1809674/the-return-of-livejournal
I have turned off my automatic payments. It was because I had no money. But now because I'm too disgusted to keep going. You have 10 million unique US visitors a month, but you don't give a shit about them, because you want to become Livefacebooktwitter or some fuck. The comments to that article quite nicely explain the trouble.
I'm done with livejournal. You aren't getting more money from me. When I am in a financial position to do so, I'm buying paid accounts on dreamwidth instead.
To my lj friends: I'll be cross-posting here from either of my dw accounts (I have two) but probably not automatically. My dw accounts are open to comment with OpenID, which you can set up with your livejournal account.
I just ... you don't actually admit to public media that 10 million current customers aren't worth your time. That's Business 101. Your existent customers are your first priority. Keeping your customers happy generates word of mouth and more money. Keeping customers pissed off just generates bad press and less money. DUH.
I had many wonderful years of discussion on here, lj, but you fucked up too many times. My fic is already hosted over at DW, and eventually I will move my more-worthwhile posts over there as well. Or maybe I'll import them all. I don't know. But I do know that I don't want to continue generating page views and income for a site that doesn't care about my opinions, needs, or usage habits.
I have turned off my automatic payments. It was because I had no money. But now because I'm too disgusted to keep going. You have 10 million unique US visitors a month, but you don't give a shit about them, because you want to become Livefacebooktwitter or some fuck. The comments to that article quite nicely explain the trouble.
I'm done with livejournal. You aren't getting more money from me. When I am in a financial position to do so, I'm buying paid accounts on dreamwidth instead.
To my lj friends: I'll be cross-posting here from either of my dw accounts (I have two) but probably not automatically. My dw accounts are open to comment with OpenID, which you can set up with your livejournal account.
I just ... you don't actually admit to public media that 10 million current customers aren't worth your time. That's Business 101. Your existent customers are your first priority. Keeping your customers happy generates word of mouth and more money. Keeping customers pissed off just generates bad press and less money. DUH.
I had many wonderful years of discussion on here, lj, but you fucked up too many times. My fic is already hosted over at DW, and eventually I will move my more-worthwhile posts over there as well. Or maybe I'll import them all. I don't know. But I do know that I don't want to continue generating page views and income for a site that doesn't care about my opinions, needs, or usage habits.