Route 29: Stay or Leave?
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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Firstly, there is the whole paid account thing. I renewed Cecil's for a whole year mere hours before the update happened. In fact, it was actually one of my Christmas presents, and it'd be extremely upsetting to lose a whole year + 2 icon packages like that, especially since my other game is very likely to move to Dreamwidth.
Which leads to my second point: every game is currently moving or talking about moving. Every single one of them. That means there's quite a lot of shuffling around going on already, leading to potential confusion and stress. I'd admittedly be more willing to move if it was something of an isolated choice.
Thirdly, there is the whole kneejerk reaction part, though the time we have to vote admittedly helps with that. They've already announced that they indeed to have a new commenting page that resembles the new one. For all we know, it'll get rid of most of our issues (though I admittedly have very little hope for the subject lines).
Fourth is even more subjective, but I have to admit that even now I'm quite attached to LJ. It has most of the communities I follow, and I've been there for years. I'm not certain I'll find the same atmosphere elsewhere. Even with all the new customers whenever LJ screws up, Dreamwidth just doesn't have the same activity and traffic. I do worry this will lead to a lack of visibility for the game, and perhaps even stagnation.
...I think I might have other points to make, but that's a start.
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