Dear @LiveJournal:

[agilebrit]

I realize that losing my paltry two paid accounts will not do much to your bottom line.

But you are getting to the point where DreamWidth is looking like a better and better option. I won't be jumping; your own actions will have pushed me. You don't listen to your userbase. When your userbase complains about things, your basic reaction is "suck it up and deal."

Well, sucking it up and dealing by bailing on the site is looking like a more and more attractive option. I finally found the "thread/link" link you so helpfully got rid of/changed to the date/time stamp, but it sure would have been nice if you'd put something in a News or LJReleases post to the effect of "hey, that thing you've been used to for over ten years? Yeah, we moved it."

But this business of not being able to preview a post when I simply have LJLogin enabled (so I can see which of ten accounts I'm logged in to--two of which, as mentioned, are paid accounts with extra icons, and one of which had extra icons, though I haven't re-upped those this time, yet, because, well. You don't want me, clearly) is super sucky. I realize that you "don't support third-party software," and I'm not asking you to. But that software is incredibly useful to those very few of us still clinging bitterly to our roleplay accounts on LJ. What I'm asking you to do is not make it completely unusable to those of us who used it for years with no issues. It feels like you borked it on purpose, honestly, and the fact that you don't seem to care that it affected a wide swath of people with paid accounts makes me more and more likely to migrate to a place that actually wants me and welcomes me.

No love,
agilebrit & werewolf_hacker

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm mostly sticking around out of inertia and stubbornness. Plus the feeling that I'm better off posting my occasional rants on the political LJ on a site less likely to go viral.

[nodrog]

Well, how DO you do…

I went looking for the means they once had to send you a .zip archive of your journal; what I found was something called ljArchive which apparently never worked well and often does not work at all

http://ljarchive.livejournal.com/

However, we are told (and I quote):

     My friends, i deside a pay money freelancer, which repair ljarchive.
     wait a week, it will be work soon! -)

Yah, well, пасиб.  Meanwhile I just imported the whole shebeen over here, which went amazingly fast.

Livejournal isn't ours any more.  That's becoming increasingly obvious.

[agilebrit]

Oh, yeah, I used LJArchive a long time ago, and then it stopped working. Not only that, but the business of using the datestamp as a link only works on some journals and not others.

Not only that, but my Edit Comment button has disappeared from custom comment pages, even when I'm posting with my paid account.

The only reason I'm still on LJ is inertia, and the fact that it's where all my roleplay partners are.