LJ, I HOPE YOU ENJOY BANKRUPTCY.

[zimshan]

Between Flock packing up shop, Delicious ruining itself, and everything with LJ this year, my favorite internet applications are making me BAWLLLLL. Someone obviously didn't relay the memo that pissing off your already paying customers is bad business.

These newest changes and proposed future ones feel like the last straw for me. I've been a loyal

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[spectralbovine]

Oh my God, are they seriously going to redesign the entire site to look like this bullshit? Whyyyyyy. IT WAS FINE. IT WAS FUNCTIONAL. WE LIKED IT. IT WORKED.

[afrocurl]

That's my thoughts exactly, Sunil.

It worked; we all got along fine. Nothing was wrong in the land of LJ. Until someone went code happy and produced something that's laggy and not that functional.

[zimshan]

Code happy, is right. What need was there to do this. These changes couldn't possibly HELP costs, would they? They seem much more heavy than the old interface did.

Most upsetting is really just how proud and HAPPY they are acting about it, like they're the best improvements in the world. It must makes me more furious.

[afrocurl]

I just sat there with the default page looking like I wouldn't be able to comment back here (so sadly I'm in my style, which is just an unnecessary step for a process of COMMUNICATING! to someone else.

Yeah, they really love the code--but I can't see how.

[afrocurl]

Yeah, I don't see the point of changing the whole interface when it was fine.

I've been betaing the new scrapbook and it's pretty much balls too, though I haven't gone to say anything. Moving everything in that direction is just a level of wrong I don't understand.

How can programmers/coders see what is good code and say "how can we make this not work better?" I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!

[zimshan]

It's just disastrous. It makes me want to cry. I know some people have figured out some ways to make it a little less of an eyesore, but it sounds like it requires reverting it back to customized comment pages that I can't stand, so I find myself not even wanting to learn. I liked the OLD comment page. It was clean and simple and functional. It really just makes no sense to me, I hope people rebel and make a huge fuss enough that something gets done, but they don't sound very agreeable.

What is the scrapbook? Is it to make it more like tumblr or delicious's stacks?

[afrocurl]

Oh Scrapbook is their photohosting service. I use it to post all my picspams because I'm lazy about putting them on photobucket where anyone could see. At least with Scrapbook I was able to control who say what photos, but it's interface is like this and won't let you put photos into existing albums. It's just a mess.

OH, and I meant to say, I'm rozf on tumblr and rozfost on twitter. Following you at both places.

[zimshan]

Oh, no way! Awesome! I'll have to add you. I've had it for a while but haven't really done much with it. I've started making myself fiddle around with it a tad. I'm the lame girl who still finds most of it kinda confusing, but I need to make more of an attempt to learn. ;)

[amber_protocol]

IKR this whole new design is such complete fail, I fucking cannot. Just... UGH. EVERYTHING about it is just wrong and I feel pissed off that I just bought 1500 tokens for a rename. If they don't change this shit I'm done with this site, it's ridiculous.

Thanks for the link to create a DW account, I've been meaning to for a while but last time I tried it wouldn't let me because I needed a code.

I just went to preview this like I do 99% of my comments but OH RIGHT, WE CAN'T DO THAT ANY MORE.

[zimshan]

It's SUCH fail, like ALL ACROSS the board! After a year of letting my account lapse, I broke down and bought a yr + Userpics this August. I WANT MY MONEY BACK, LJ!!

Glad the DW link was helpful, I really do need to get used to things over there. It's slightly different so besides transferring all my posts, I just never took the time to learn it all. But now that LJs up and changing everything here, a little bit of change for the old interface doesn't seem like a bad trade. I always knew this day would come. Fuckin, LJ and Delicious, in the same three month span. It's kinda tragic. I can almost hear TAPS playing in the background. ;(

[amber_protocol]

Mine's due for renewal in February so they have a couple of months to fix this shit, but I swear I won't pay them money if this update isn't reversed.

It sucks so bad that you only just renewed it, but hey, at least we don't have permanent accounts and can let them know monetarily how we feel about this.

Getting used to DW probably won't take long, we put up with many changes when using the net so it's not too bad to adjust to. Unless it's completely fucking useless functionally in which case you leave and take your money with you. ;)

I WANT TO PREVIEW BUT I CANNOT. >:|

[evergleam83]

I like tumblr okay, but definitely only in small bursts. I hate that there's no easy way to interact with people on tumblr, though. I sort of really wish more people would make the exodus onto DW or something, at least they are fandom-ready over there.

Anyway, I'm adding you everywhere! I'm either evergleam83 like here, or else aftertherockets, which I've been trying to sort of switch everything over to. :D

[zimshan]

So much for my DW move aspirations over break! Just getting back to this now, but found your new name on tumblr & DW!

I hear you about tumblr though, not having comments bugs me, it's like the lazyman's blog, just like or reblog. Meanwhile, I find a post with a bunch of notes and I just wave my hands going 'wait, but what did you THINK about it?!?'. Sure, I guess sometimes it's helpful, but I've had this convo elsewhere, like the 'Kudos' button on AO3, it's easy and handy but it's also a crutch because you don't have to think about WHY you liked it, the feedback for the author isn't really helpful. Not like I can talk, I'm backlogged on comments I owe from YEARS ago on some vids/fic.