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Starting on December 22nd 1:00AM EST, Livejournal's New Site-Scheme (Update 88) was put online. The public outlash so far has been pretty vocal on their page (you can go read it
here). A few hours ago LJ put up
a new post regarding the update and what they are doing to fix it. However, we'd
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Allow me to reiterate my point here, my main point: The reason I want to move is not at all because of the design. I cannot express this enough and I still feel my reasons are being interpreted as something completely different by a few people. Yes, it is fuck-ugly- god knows it's fuck-ugly- but I'd deal with it if it weren't for my real reason to move.
The LiveJournal staff has always been bad, yes, but the past year or two, it has really gotten out of hand. Horrible treatment has been dealt directly to users. Complaints are ignored. Problems are pushed to the side for useless things like games and laggy updates. Not only that, but then there's the downtimes. The DDoS attacks. The people dealing with the results of the Russian government who really don't deserve to be the brunt of it. I mean, government interfering with fun times? Really?Let me just reiterate how unprofessional the site staff's customer service itself is. They ( ... )
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Sadly this is untrue. They were actually quite good from, say, 2002-2004, and moderately good from 2005-2006.
Which makes all of this dicking around that much more frustrating.
HI, WHEN I FIRST JOINED LIVE JOURNAL YOU HAD TO HAVE A FRIEND CODE.
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I remember hearing that LJ only had 6 icons default in the olden days. 8Ua
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I WONDER HOW RPING EVEN WAS BACK THEN.
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I don't remember having only 3 though to be fair it's been almost a decade that I've been with LJ. It's possible that in 2002 when I first started it was only 3 icons.
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Shows how much a place can grow with the right work. even though it is no longer good work anymore but still
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Moreover, at least from the crowd I came from (Sailormoon RPs and the like) we were used to Message Board games which have only one icon at a time. LJ is actually the first place where the icons were used for each post (and to be frank I LIKE IT MUCH MORE THAT WAY). It actually was only when I got Lash that I started paying for accounts because I really did want her to have more expressions.
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I CAME FROM AIM RP SO I WAS LIKE. NOT USED TO ICONS AT ALL. but ilthem.
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And then when we all saw the 'friend page' on LJ, well, everyone was like COOING about it, and I remember that very clearly.
We did an entire invite congo line back them so we could all get in.
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i just pictured a lj userhead congo line really...
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"Wow, six whole icons. What will I ever do with all of them."
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My greatest fear is that in moving, we'd be trading one evil for another, if Dreamwidth looks at the influx of users and decides to give everyone more icons at the expense of switching to an ad-supported system, and taking a slippery slope down to the standards of LJ today.
I'm probably wrong, and I'm definitely thinking worst-case-scenario. But reading this thread and seeing people talk about how in touch the DW admins are compared to LJ's, but talking about how LJ's admins were much better years ago, just makes me wonder.
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The founders left because they weren't satisfied with LJ, and they know they're getting a larger userbase because of LJ. They've kept their foot down about Pay Pal, so i doubt they're going to slip down that slope... at least not any time in the foreseeable future.
If they do manage to ever find a way for extra userpics to be available, its probably going to only happen if they get enough paying users to make it feasible.
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I don't think he(Mark) would know what would happen.
With DW, they've already proven they haven't taken that stance just by their interaction with paypal. Yeah it's incredibly annoying you can use paypal on the page but the reason they took it out is paypal wanted them to censor some of the journal entries, and they refused. Paypal backed out.
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