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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[bullieve]

I'm definitely voting for a DW move as well! I'll be honest, I only really wandered over to it when everyone else did because of the temptation of snagging the journal names I never got to have before, which was addicting in itself. I'd made a DW back when it first opened in '09 and then never used it and when I went back I found it confusing to navigate, but only for basically a couple minutes, lmao. It really is quite simple and user-friendly, and anything that you can't locate you can always ask for help finding from a friend! I even found an add-on for the Chrome/Firefox add-on Stylish that allows you to change the basic appearance of one of the site layout so that it more resembles LJ's old look. Taking a stab at doing layouts in journals wasn't so bad, either (although I am a little disappointed about my tables I brought over from LJ).

I did just renew both my paids on LJ and I'm really, really PO'd that it's now a great big waste of money - not just if I do leave LJ, but because I can't use them much anyway with the way the site and RP as a whole has taken a dive. The fortunate part is that DW paids are super cheap, and their system is pretty fair, although me and a few friends have messaged the admins to suggest smaller increments for paid time so we don't have to pay quite as much all at once. They don't take Paypal, which is unfortunate (but they have good reasons for it), but they do take credit/debit and giftcards work too.

The real last straw for me on LJ is the support staff, though. I had an issue with buying my first paid on DW so I messaged them (with what was quite honestly a short and snippy message) and they got back to me within the hour with a full fix and explanation and apologies and it was just whoa. After the inexplicable phenomenon where people's automatic payments were getting turned on on LJ, which happened to me on one of my accounts, and the support staff called those people liars? Ah hell nah. The new commenting system does work for me, personally, even if it is clunky and slow and messy, but it's the treatment of the userbase that drove the nail into the coffin.

If Route does decide to stay I'm sure I can adapt, but I'm really hoping it does move. We all deserve a refreshing change to a place that isn't crap, as daunting a task as that may be.