I press stop.
Dear LiveJournal people who convinced me to stay:
I appreciate your gifts, your worship (of my feline perfection, of course) and your rationalisations (of LJ's behaviour), but if you'll take a moment and look at this support ticket (or this post, and thank you, shatterstripes) - you can even easily verify the issue as described right there - you'll see why I can no longer trust LiveJournal for anything whatsoever.
This comes as no surprise. It's the smoking gun and the final straw. Somebody from LiveJournal's executive staff is going to have to personally convince me to stay - but they'll also have to give a lot of people back their money. Actually, I'm past that by now. This will be my last entry on LiveJournal, regardless of how they apologise for their theft. That they even did it is just plain immoral.
Meanwhile, I can be found as electrickeet at Dreamwidth. Dreamwidth has the bulk of LiveJournal's functionality and some rather sane additions that LJ does not, and they are dedicated to not censoring and not stealing from and not screwing over their users. I've been posting there this whole time, and you can set up a functional account using your OpenID from LiveJournal (or Facebook or whatever other places.) Also, the LJ RSS feed for Thirteen Ribbons will probably continue functioning so long as LJ keeps going, or maybe only as long as I have paid time. I'm not too worried either way.
Remember, that's electrickeet at Dreamwidth - and I'll be upgrading my account there to a paid one (I've been putting it off) so you can even RSS feed it if you like. I have three account invite codes, but I honestly don't even recall if they use those now since the introductory period is over. If they do, ask me for one here and I'll gladly offer.
718 posts, seven and a half years (over half of 'em paid, as I recall), and this is where it ends. So there I go.
I appreciate your gifts, your worship (of my feline perfection, of course) and your rationalisations (of LJ's behaviour), but if you'll take a moment and look at this support ticket (or this post, and thank you, shatterstripes) - you can even easily verify the issue as described right there - you'll see why I can no longer trust LiveJournal for anything whatsoever.
This comes as no surprise. It's the smoking gun and the final straw. Somebody from LiveJournal's executive staff is going to have to personally convince me to stay - but they'll also have to give a lot of people back their money. Actually, I'm past that by now. This will be my last entry on LiveJournal, regardless of how they apologise for their theft. That they even did it is just plain immoral.
Meanwhile, I can be found as electrickeet at Dreamwidth. Dreamwidth has the bulk of LiveJournal's functionality and some rather sane additions that LJ does not, and they are dedicated to not censoring and not stealing from and not screwing over their users. I've been posting there this whole time, and you can set up a functional account using your OpenID from LiveJournal (or Facebook or whatever other places.) Also, the LJ RSS feed for Thirteen Ribbons will probably continue functioning so long as LJ keeps going, or maybe only as long as I have paid time. I'm not too worried either way.
Remember, that's electrickeet at Dreamwidth - and I'll be upgrading my account there to a paid one (I've been putting it off) so you can even RSS feed it if you like. I have three account invite codes, but I honestly don't even recall if they use those now since the introductory period is over. If they do, ask me for one here and I'll gladly offer.
718 posts, seven and a half years (over half of 'em paid, as I recall), and this is where it ends. So there I go.