Route 29: Stay or Leave?

[these_balls]

As I am sure you are all aware of, Livejournal has undergone a good handful of changes that have made roleplaying here just a little more difficult. With how the staff of Livejournal and the ones in charge of the code have responded and interacted with the members, it looks as though these changes will be permanent

Comments

[usedkunai]

Offering a contrasting opinion to the one above. While I understand it, I've been looking at it from a different perspective this entire time.

I have paid time as well, but the usability of the site has gone done vastly for me; even our makeshift custom layout gives me headaches.

I'm of firm belief that no customer, paying or otherwise should have to jump through hoops to make a website work the way they need it to. With the planned changes (overall site interface, lack of nested threads, inability to credit icons?), I don't feel as is LJ is moving in a direction that is beneficial to LJRP on the whole. I think a lot of people's reluctance lies on a fear of change (not everyone or ANYONE in particular, just an observation I've made via all the talk EVERYWHERE). All it takes is a good amount of people willing to make the plunge and we could have major beneficial changes for the community.

I don't think the transition would be that difficult; all it takes is commenting on the taken lists with something like "usedkunai is now

+1

[homofuckiens]

Yeah, pretty much this. I have already imported a journal or two.

My concern isn't about aesthetics or the like, it's about the principle that guides customer service. I do not want to pay this site anymore if their idea of good customer service is a "deal with it" philosophy.

Question about DW

[meatysoviet]

How do you import accounts? I tried but I think I failed.

[homofuckiens]

It's under your tools options! There's a que for it, so don't worry if it doesn't show up right away. I think I had to wait like an hour or two for everything to show up.

[meatysoviet]

Okay then, thanks for the tip~

[homofuckiens]

Yeah, no problem. I think you can import your icons + keywords too. The catch there is that you have to have the paid account at DW if you have like the 100 icons thing going. It will only upload your default icon if you don't have room for all the icons you're importing.

[usedkunai]

You can go back and import icons later if you buy a paid account, and it'll retain all the keywords though, at least!

Or if you manually upload 15 icons with the same keywords, those will keep.

.....ADDENDUM

[usedkunai]

Since I can't edit my comment.

I've changed my stance; as much as I love Route, I really don't think I'd stick around if the game stays on LJ. As it stands, I'm having difficulties viewing the site; even our makeshift layout hurts my eyes - since I have a large display, there's a lot of excess white space that hurts my eyes. Not to mention my inability to believe that these temporary fixes will last.

Honestly, I just disagree with having to use workarounds this extensively just to be able to play in any of my games.

Should the game not move, I will wish everyone the best -- the last thing I really want to do is leave, as this is my home game and I love everything here. But between my disagreement with LJ's business practices (which I don't support and don't want to continue to support by giving them traffic) and the aesthetics combined, I don't think I could do it. I love my friends, but I can't walk all over my own principles, either.

:(