Comments | ftmichael: Ugh.

ftmichael

Ugh.

Oct 30, 2012 13:16

LiveJournal is continuing in its quest to be Facebook and Tumblr simultaneously, thereby driving even more people away. I haven't seen any screenshots of this new "release" (read: train wreck), but it sounds like they're going to make all friends pages uniform and remove a ton of customizability ( Read more... )

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assiduous1 October 30 2012, 22:52:54 UTC

thanks for the fyi. I am backing up my lj now.

ftmichael October 30 2012, 22:53:48 UTC

What are you using? ljbook is giving me a bit of hassle.

assiduous1 October 31 2012, 01:42:35 UTC

I used LJ Book with no problems.

akale October 31 2012, 17:23:33 UTC

I agree with you. LJ is continuing to turn away from what it was, and I'm not sure why. It's not like there's going to be a resurgence in 'journal keeping' because LJ decided to revamp the UI.

Since the acquisition by SUP, it hasn't been the same, and it will never be.

There have been times that I just wanted to walk away, but it's hard leaving something that we're used to. I already killed my paid subscription, as the ad-based version is good enough for me.

ganimede November 1 2012, 20:02:45 UTC

You could say that it hasn't been the same since Brad left *shrug* It's not like all the changes have been bad ones, it's just that those are the ones people remember.

ganimede November 1 2012, 20:16:25 UTC

I haven't seen any official post about a new friends page layout, just several posts from people complaining about it...

But don't forget, this is LJ. No one here likes change. There are complaints, threats, people leave and then in a few months time, people forget and it's all back to way it was. People complained when the invite system was removed. People complained when ads were introduced. People complained when the navbar thing was introduced. People complained when basic accounts were no longer available for new journals. (And six months later, they were reinstated.) People complained about the games that were introduced. (And they've since been removed.) This is LJ. People complain.

Like you, I'm loathe to leave LJ. I have a lot of history here. Moving somewhere else, like Dreamwidth feels like I'd be restarting again from 0 friends which isn't a pleasant thought :-/

ftmichael November 2 2012, 17:02:14 UTC

*nodnod* V true. People love to complain. Certainly it's like that on Facebook as well, and LJ has an even longer history of people complaining and threatening to leave and ultimately getting over it every time there's a UI change.

I don't mind starting over with just a couple of friends, but giving up that history bothers me. You can import all of your LJ content to DW but I don't really want to do that - it feels kind of disingenuous. I don't think I'll ever leave LJ unless it shuts down or something. I just wish I could get ljbook to work for me! It's giving me hassle about my content not being in UTF-8, even though I followed the instructions on LJ to convert everything and it said it was successful. *grumble* I'd feel a lot better knowing that I have an up-to-date backup of my whole journal.

akale November 5 2012, 15:21:12 UTC

Have you tried Livejournal's own export option?
http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

ftmichael November 5 2012, 15:27:59 UTC

I might try that, but it looks like it'll only export one month at a time. That's nearly 150 export jobs that I'd have to do individually, so something that would export the whole journal - or at least a sizeable chunk of it - all in one go would be much preferable.

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cricketgrl July 31 2016, 23:11:00 UTC

Just stumbled on your post. I have been aaway from LJ for a while and all the updates I've been seeing have not impressed me. I'm tempted to delete my account but I've been here for at least 12 years so I'm probably just gonna leave it be for now. I doubt I'll be back on it like I used to be.

Thank you for this update tho!