Well krrrrrrrap. What to do.....
Aug. 10th, 2015 03:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleAs 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!
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* -_-
====================
EDIT: P.S. I must say I am really thrilled with the vigorous response to this posting. Thanks Everyone!
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Date: 2015-08-10 03:02 pm (UTC)Facebook just changed again, too, on my browser. Options moved from top to bottom, side to side. Is that the LJ model or is this the FB model? I began posting a few things there again because it is so devastatingly quiet here, but it's not much better.
I have DreamWidth but as you know I'm a visual poster and don't like the time it takes to upload/link pics that I can just pull off the phone or iPad. Maybe I could try a fresh start there, though...
My tiny friends list here has become very quiet. Some left for FB, others I'm not sure where.
On the other paw, perhaps a lot of people who were once heavy posters have just moved offline? I've been off and on the social media for many years, and maybe the 'others,' unlike me, have just outgrown it. My son doesn't interact with posts in the same manner as I do, preferring to cruise through tumblr or other sites for quick fixes: from him I learned what tl;dr referred to.
*sigh* thanks for the listen :o)
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Date: 2015-08-11 08:52 am (UTC)Yeah, F.B will probably keep changing willy nilly.. and all those ADS.. egads!!
It's been a fairly smooth last 3 years here.. as my last big foray into DreamWidth was about 3 years ago.. LOL.. :D
This other fellow Vakko has InsaneJournal and actually the default skin of that I like quite a bit more, visually and interactively, than DreamWidth..
Over the years (and I've written about this before), other methods arose to stay in touch... but not mucks nor i.m.s nor email nor other things seemed to really exemplify the reality factor of getting to know and interact with people online as well as L.J., so I do hate to see it fade, and as you noted.. it's hard to know quite where the chips will fall.. :/
I might suddenly have a lot of free time again :D ....seriously though, I'd lean toward being able to stay connected unless L.J. really steps on an irreversible mine.
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Date: 2015-08-11 11:45 pm (UTC)I read that wrong, initially- yep, the free time factor. I became disenchanted with lj and became active in a plushie forum (no, not that one *shudder*) but it wasn't the same. I spent way too much time trying to interact there but finally ditched over personality issues, something that I rarely experienced here. That freed up a lot of my morning coffee/online time :D
I'm on the edge, here. My sixth lj anniversary (mondhasen) was yesterday, but I'm thinking I may not make seven.