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

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[phoenix_temple]

I'd like to add to the "con" list of livejournal that it is quite literally unusable for some people. Netbooks have trouble loading pages, and some older computers simply won't let the new comments page load at all. I know that my own computer, which is less than a year old, is constantly freezing if I try to use LJ with any other site, including Plurk and Gmail. I also have to refresh several times to get custom comment pages to load all the comments. The workarounds are fine for now, but as seen at SC, they do break. That's a big concern because I know there's at least a few people who will want to stay in the game but can't because LJ simply doesn't work. And it's not just comment pages that are going to get altered--they're planning to change the whole site. There have already been countless complaints of headaches from looking at the site scheme, and several occasions of panic attacks due to lacking the subject line in communities

[meatysoviet]

Geez hun, you've really had the short end of this shitty stick, haven't you?

[phoenix_temple]

I feel sort of bad because I'm actually complaining more than I should about LJ. I've had some really good times on the site, and I'll actually be pretty sad to leave. But as it is right now, I'm seeing way more issues with remaining here than benefits. 8(! Also I use I a lot to prevent from generalizing too much, this is just how I see it, and how things have been working for me. I just tend to have the worst luck possible....

I also just found out that I lost entire threads and entire posts to LJ deleting comments from users with deleted accounts. And I miss seeing icon keywords, too. And character names when I hover because spelling in different languages is not my forte.

[phoenix_temple]

It took me more than a year to learn how to spell "Hououji" properly, fun fact |D I was trying to do tags at S_C yesterday and I couldn't remember anyone's name and I spent the entire time like "WRYYYYY"

[phoenix_temple]

It doesn't help that in romanization a lot of names get translated differently depending on the person. Shido vs Shidou, Ryuzaki vs Ryuuzaki, Windam vs Windom, Cephiro vs Cefiro--IT'S ALL VERY COMPLICATED AND MESSY. Especially with this particular canon, which has characters going from Lafarga to Rafaga depending on translation it makes everything hard 8(

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