POLL. Pass on this poll to your friends/communities!

[rollback88]

UPDATE: POLL REPORT! I evaluated these stats after we broke the 2,000 vote mark and this is what I'm sending to LJ based on the responses so far. PLEASE KEEP VOTING AND SHARING. The more data, the better. Poll Roll Back Release 88. Here's why. If I left something out or missed something, please by all means share in comments. If you're not sure on anything or if what I put here is a

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[oysters]

i have a comment to add. i'm currently a Basic user, but i used to pay for lj's services back when brad/America still owned the site (lol). i've been on lj since 2002 and have NEVER before been forced to submit to a layout change. that means that lj looked THE SAME for me in 2011 as it did in 2002, because lj's cosmetic changes have always been OPT-IN or OPT-OUT. i truly think they have crossed a line by forcing a layout change on everyone.

[technicolornina]

Agreed. I've been here since 2005, and the only layout change that I've ever gone with was Userinfo 2.0, when they started with a disaster and then modified it according to user feedback (still not great, but better than whatever THIS clusterfuck is). Up until this new company took over, changes were always with users in mind. Now it's "let's see how fast we can make this site disappear!"

. . . would anybody here be surprised if PUC actually bought LJ on Russian gov't orders and is TRYING to make it go under, so as to take away the platform for Russian dissidents?

[rollback88]

Yeah, unfortunately it computes it out of the total number of answers as opposed to people answering. With larger numbers later, I can note where we are with the real percentages.

[rollback88]

LOL, it could be that, or it could be that igrick just doesn't like them and was determined to come up with a statistic why.

Maybe this is a little OT but it's my "other complaint".

[xcarex]

Even if there is some kind of a tangible apology to paid users (refund or the old stand-by of free paid time), it's absolutely embarassing how permanent members get treated by LJ. We're the people who believed in the site enough to jump at the chance to slap down several years worth of money, and we are never acknowledged when there's downtime due to stuff like the constant DDoS attacks. Everyone absolutely deserves a voice but it's incredibly frustrating that permanent users are in no way compensated for the fuckuppery, when pay-by-the-month/year users are.

I doubt this is ever going to change but I might get over it if the site honestly apologizes and rolls back to the site we've invested in.

Re: Maybe this is a little OT but it's my "other complaint".

[xcarex]

Also-- hey, do you mind if we use your RollBack88 icon, with credit? I mean, yeah, it'll be a bitch to load it if it's not our default (topical reference, ahoy!), but I think that it could be neat if a lot of people started using it as an additional little action of complaint.

Re: Maybe this is a little OT but it's my "other complaint".

[rollback88]

Yeah, I was thinking of that too. You're more than welcome to use it and pass it on to anyone else to use.

Re: Maybe this is a little OT but it's my "other complaint".

[xcarex]

Done and defaulted.

[xfortytwo]

Another specific complain I have is related to screened comments. They're completely greyed out now. The text is light grey on white, which is majorly frustrating because a lot of us do read screened comments. Screening them doesn't necessarily mean the comments aren't 'active' so to speak. In comms I'm in and mod for, screened comments are often used for contests so other people can't see what you've entered. Or for applications that are held private until they're voted on, etc. And a lot of us do have to read these screened comments. It's a complete pain at the moment, I can't even.

[crazed_delusion]

I agree the screened comments are horrible to deal with and migraine inducing.

[themistoklis]

I am dealing with this same problem right now -- screened comments are what organizes the first half of a Secret Santa exchange I mod. It's really difficult to deal with when I can't read any of those comments anymore.

+1

[scarysnakelady]

As a mod, this is how we do a lot of things we only want seen by the submitting person and the modstaff. So, yes.

[angelicfoodcake]

My "other complaint" is that it's not only impossible for me to comment with my mobile now, I can't copy&paste something from a comment, too, because I'm unable to select a text. All I can select is the whole "comment box", which is just useless.

[epistretes]

THIS.

OT...

[ladyasul]

Love the icon. ;D

[droxy]

This too. same BS as facebook.