What the fucking fuck happened with the comments pages, and can we please go back to the standard ones we used to have which worked marvellously and without a fuss?
I suggest leaving LJ a message with their contact details - can't hurt, and if enough of us flood their contact inboxes, maybe they'll re-thinking things.
We maxed out the comments on the post announcing this, and they still did it. They only heard NONONONOFUCKINGNO, not a single yes, and they did it, despite well argued and overwhelming outrage.
Maybe someone will post tweaks; from my mail-replies, I can at least still insert subject lines, I urge everyone to do the same which would work if we replied to each others comments on the protest post?
And I still think that flooding OTHER inboxes can't hurt - particularly other inboxes where they have to pay attention because they deal with other matters, such as feedback, or sales, or some such.
It does flood their inbox, do flood their inboxes, but if people add subject lines, they see those before even being able to ignore their generic "reply to post" mails. If they haven't turned that off, which I think they do :/
I just logged in to LJ tonight for the first time in months and the comment thing is weird to me too -- especially if you hit the back button like I do, to get back to my Friends page.
Meanwhile I am finding feeds & things I had lost or forgotten about and am getting the feed into so I can follow them elsewhere. Flipbook for iPad is great for viewing feeds. I will add you of course, not that I have forgotten at all. Hardly possible! :)
That was only the start of enormous shenanigans that resulted in a mass exodus to Dreamwidth which is currently in progress for Milliways. The new layout made threading all but impossible; it's meant for short comment threads in actual blog, not interactive literature where one conversation can run to many dozens of comments, one after the other.
Also, accessibility problems thanks to too much Java and no accessible alternatives -- we have at least three people in Milliways that can't play at all with the new layout. So, we will be moving, and our mun journals will move with it, or at least get duplicated over there. I'm Yakalskovich over there as well, and on Pinterest too, which isn't a journal site, but a picture-blogging one that aggregates and spreads all sorts of ideas you find online. I can send you an invite for it if you're interested. LiveJournal, though, has pretty much had it, thanks to the terrible broken-ness of the new standard layout AND their customer interaction.
Yes, this is what I have gathered. The system attacks I've heard about as well.
I am thinking of starting up long-form blogging again but I won't be using LJ. I have nearly 10,000 posts there and lots of memories but -sigh- it just isn't happening anymore. I just keep having all this "long" thoughts in my head, ideas for essays, rants, etc., and although I sometimes put them on FB, it's not quite the same really.
I am very active elsewhere, still deciding where to put this personal blog. Might be on Tumblr, just bc I'm logged in there all the time anyway (doing my Art Deco blog), it's easy, and it's easy to syndicate -- so I could send posts to Twitter & FB automatically.
I'm not on Facebook because it is patently evil, and I hope that the phase where everybody seems to be on it will blow over. I'm on Google+ as Yakalskovich, though -- I think we connected there as well? And LinkedIn, where I'm under my real name, because anything else defeats the purpose of LinkedIn.
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I suggest leaving LJ a message with their contact details - can't hurt, and if enough of us flood their contact inboxes, maybe they'll re-thinking things.
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Maybe someone will post tweaks; from my mail-replies, I can at least still insert subject lines, I urge everyone to do the same which would work if we replied to each others comments on the protest post?
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And I still think that flooding OTHER inboxes can't hurt - particularly other inboxes where they have to pay attention because they deal with other matters, such as feedback, or sales, or some such.
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It does flood their inbox, do flood their inboxes, but if people add subject lines, they see those before even being able to ignore their generic "reply to post" mails. If they haven't turned that off, which I think they do :/
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Meanwhile I am finding feeds & things I had lost or forgotten about and am getting the feed into so I can follow them elsewhere. Flipbook for iPad is great for viewing feeds. I will add you of course, not that I have forgotten at all. Hardly possible! :)
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Also, accessibility problems thanks to too much Java and no accessible alternatives -- we have at least three people in Milliways that can't play at all with the new layout. So, we will be moving, and our mun journals will move with it, or at least get duplicated over there. I'm Yakalskovich over there as well, and on Pinterest too, which isn't a journal site, but a picture-blogging one that aggregates and spreads all sorts of ideas you find online. I can send you an invite for it if you're interested. LiveJournal, though, has pretty much had it, thanks to the terrible broken-ness of the new standard layout AND their customer interaction.
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I am thinking of starting up long-form blogging again but I won't be using LJ. I have nearly 10,000 posts there and lots of memories but -sigh- it just isn't happening anymore. I just keep having all this "long" thoughts in my head, ideas for essays, rants, etc., and although I sometimes put them on FB, it's not quite the same really.
I am very active elsewhere, still deciding where to put this personal blog. Might be on Tumblr, just bc I'm logged in there all the time anyway (doing my Art Deco blog), it's easy, and it's easy to syndicate -- so I could send posts to Twitter & FB automatically.
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