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.

Along with the lovely "automatic paid" glitch, the glitches that have allowed others to log into random accounts and see private information, the DDoS attacks and the unprofessional attitude of the LJ staff (I particularly love when legit concerns got called "spam"), I think there's some big issues to sticking around LJ.

But I've been on DW for a few days, like a lot of people, checking it out. The staff has flat out said it supports the RP transfers. They've done a lot in making the site more comfortable for people. They've also explained what is likely LiveJournal's reasons for changing the format. They've been nothing but respectful and have done their best to make people feel welcome. The comments page can be changed to something that looks almost exactly like old LJ, too, which I have enabled. It basically works exactly the same as old LJ except for some coding issues. This makes my vote obvious, but it's really not bad over there.

I understand people with paid accounts not wanting to leave because, well, money. I'm typing this with a paid account, and I have one or two more that aren't ending for a while. But at the same time, I think it's important to make sure that the game is accessible first and foremost to its players and potential players. There's big changes in store for LJ, and the promise of accessibility leaving with the old style.

Also, LJ's already lost me more than two months of userpics packages on one account, alone. It's rarely covered the entirety of the DDoS attacks for paid accounts, and combining all of the accounts I've lost time for, I've lost at least a month and a half of paid time, too. It's not the same, but if LJ continues this way, you don't think you're really going to get all the time you're paying for, do you? Or all the benefits? This is my personal preference, but I'd rather cut my losses now and move to a site that will actually give me what I pay for.

LOL AND THEN LJ CRASHED. THANK YOU, LJ for proving my point :|

[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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