File under "You've got to be f*cking kidding me".

[sensaes]

Just when you think they can't get any more hopelessly desperate in their efforts to stem the flow of the exodus, LiveJournal punches the button marked "Infantile Ploy" so far into its housing that it disappears completely

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Your moment of Zen.

[sensaes]

Students! Trade in your bibles for some PORN!

[dativesingular]

LJ has totally jumped the shark.

[sensaes]

New for LiveJournal in 2012! A "like" button! Apps! A profile page where users can conceal the names of their "Friends"! (Er, okay, that last one is never going to happen.)

[perpetua_redux]

*Sigh* I won't leave lj world, but it's certainly not the place it was when I opened my account. On the other hand, your still here, and that's definitely worth something.

[sensaes]

You're very kind. Outside of occasional community input, I've largely reverted to the pre-LJ, newsletter-via-e-mail format since the Russian owners made it increasingly difficult for non-account holders to access any part of the LiveJournal site without having to jump through a lot of advertising-riddled hoops first. It's the same sort of "closed-shop" business practice typified by Facebook, of course, so the introduction of in-house games isn't terribly surprising. (These sorts of access problems for people who understandably don't want to set up Paid Accounts have been indirectly responsible for delaying the re-boot of Britannia's Creature. Unless the situation improves dramatically over the next few weeks, I'll be hard-pressed to find positive reasons for lodging the intended content with LJ instead of, say, a new dedicated Blogger or WordPress page.)

[perpetua_redux]

I hope you'll be kind enough to direct me to where you blog. I'd miss my regular dose of sensaes if it were to disappear entirely.

[sensaes]

Of course. Although I can't promise that the new stuff will look any more like traditional blogging than the old stuff. For one thing, it won't even have any links in it... ;o)