For fuck's sake.
Look, I may be an English major, not a business major, but I'm pretty damn sure that hiding a major site change in the FAQ and then getting snippy when people call you on it is NOT good business sense and is even worse customer relations.
I've been less and less satisfied with the way the rapidly changing ownership of LiveJournal has been handling itself- after the last major fracas, I let the payments lapse and established an IJ. This time… I'm not deleting this one- at least not yet- but I won't be posting to it anymore.
The Game Notes of Doom will always be posted at Rebkell's, and I'm working on cross-posting them to a new site at Blogspot. Fiction will go to the IJ, same username, which I just made perm there- sales were previously suspended, but the admin is raising funds for a pet shelter that had a fire, so it seemed like a good time to do it. Also, I'm going to be updating the Realm a little more often than I have been (including very soon- hint, after class of '08's eligibility officially runs out), considering that the last time I posted to the site was over a year ago (my timing mechanism has turned out to suck ass). Anything else… well, that's what AIM's for, isn't it? Telling people stuff about yourself? Like conversation?
Don't get me wrong, I love my LiveJournal. I've had it for more than five years now and I like the clean, simple format. I've met some great people through it. But I don't trust the people running it anymore, and that's at the heart of the matter. Because you know what? IJ's not as pretty and like Elle-Jay, you gotta ante up not to see ads, so that's not what my departure is about at all. It's a matter of comfort, and I finally noticed the pea under the mattress.
And… well, don't get me wrong; as I've mentioned, I've met some great people through LiveJournal I never would have known otherwise. But the people who originally brought me here have fallen out of cyberspace. Emi, Rob, Bianca, Meg-the-writer… things aren't quite the same. I haven't felt like I'm providing anything people want to read, so maybe it doesn't matter if I don't post. (Hey, if you want to prove me wrong, I've got the IJ. ;))
It's been real, LiveJournal, and you were awesome for a while. Peace.
I've been less and less satisfied with the way the rapidly changing ownership of LiveJournal has been handling itself- after the last major fracas, I let the payments lapse and established an IJ. This time… I'm not deleting this one- at least not yet- but I won't be posting to it anymore.
The Game Notes of Doom will always be posted at Rebkell's, and I'm working on cross-posting them to a new site at Blogspot. Fiction will go to the IJ, same username, which I just made perm there- sales were previously suspended, but the admin is raising funds for a pet shelter that had a fire, so it seemed like a good time to do it. Also, I'm going to be updating the Realm a little more often than I have been (including very soon- hint, after class of '08's eligibility officially runs out), considering that the last time I posted to the site was over a year ago (my timing mechanism has turned out to suck ass). Anything else… well, that's what AIM's for, isn't it? Telling people stuff about yourself? Like conversation?
Don't get me wrong, I love my LiveJournal. I've had it for more than five years now and I like the clean, simple format. I've met some great people through it. But I don't trust the people running it anymore, and that's at the heart of the matter. Because you know what? IJ's not as pretty and like Elle-Jay, you gotta ante up not to see ads, so that's not what my departure is about at all. It's a matter of comfort, and I finally noticed the pea under the mattress.
And… well, don't get me wrong; as I've mentioned, I've met some great people through LiveJournal I never would have known otherwise. But the people who originally brought me here have fallen out of cyberspace. Emi, Rob, Bianca, Meg-the-writer… things aren't quite the same. I haven't felt like I'm providing anything people want to read, so maybe it doesn't matter if I don't post. (Hey, if you want to prove me wrong, I've got the IJ. ;))
It's been real, LiveJournal, and you were awesome for a while. Peace.