Well krrrrrrrap. What to do.....

As many who will never read this know (they'll never read this because they already left LJ) .... LiveJournal went through a long dis-the-members process years ago, changing things left and right and rapidly, WITHOUT listening to the cries of the dying masses. Many left...

Then things went quiet for a little while, as the dust settled. Then suddenly, and few LJ staffers actually DID start listening again, so the few of us left did have some advocates... and so a much MUCH smaller community remained, but at least we had Functionality and Advocacy again.

And now....
Wow. Now (for a few months at least, maybe about as long as you can easily see they no longer allow comments in the new NEWS threads), LJ has hardened up again, and in the last week or so it seems they have been rolling out View-and-Functionality-Breaking-Code under the auspice of getting it to "look better" on mobile devices.

Well Well, isn't that what they all say.

Whatever happened to coding so that it recognizes your browser and serves a page-set that works accordingly??
I was even able to convince some businesses to do this simple task by showing them how horrible their site looked from browser to browser.

The look itself of Feed vs Friends isn't so bad, but the functionality just so-very-greatly SUCKS. Buttons missing, new useless icons, big playschool circusclown (as others described) links, text stomping on other text, so much Wrong Wrongness.

It's disgusting.
So, what to do...?

What to do -_-

Well, there's DreamWidth... which seemed like a great idea, but they have a hard policy of not letting their Friends Page aggregator reach back further than two weeks. This would not be a problem most of the time, admittedly. But what about those times you are nostalgic and want to read further back?
Oh well.. it's one choice.

Then I see there's another one called InsaneJournal. Great choice with the name, goofballs. Maybe we should all go be Deviant artists too, ah? Srsly... the site looks ok, and a permanent account appears to be only a reasonable $30.

But then the Big Picture...
Any move made, well... would anyone else be there?

Most who I know that have left LJ went to Facebook and/or Tumblr. And Tumblr isn't really very interactive the way most people use it. I've seen some write true journal entries and take comments, but most just post linkoffs (which admittedly are often interesting), and most of the time Tumblr is LJ without Cut Tags. Remember when everyone would get pissed when you didn't use an LJ cut tag and you had more than two images in your posting?

When all is said and done, what really CAN I do? ... I've got a permanent account here, so at the very least I can still peek in and try to scrape some functionality out of it. And maybe LJ will actually fix things. Maybe. :|

I guess I'll keep trying the old peek in and see. At most LJ takes about 5 to 15 minutes anymore, what with the mega-exodus that never really recovered..

And/Or I suppose I can *gulp* force myself to wince and cringe and endure Facebook. We'll see. Gyah it's so horrible. gyah.

*sigh* -_-

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EDIT: P.S. I must say I am really thrilled with the vigorous response to this posting. Thanks Everyone!