LJ fucking us over, must be Tuesday
Mar. 18th, 2008 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ishtar79You know, just a month or so ago I was whining to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ariadneelda about how the move away from lj seemed to have come to a standstill and people seemed mostly content with the status quo until the next big way Livejournal would find to fuck up, which should be any day.
Of course it had to happen while I was away from the Internet. My first big clue was when I was helping a friend set up an account and went “Hey, where did the Basic Account button go?”. I’m sort of caught up now, and torn between feeling disappointed to have missed it all and secretely relieved…to have missed it all.
I’ve given up on Livejournal long ago, and truly consider Insanejournal my ‘home’. Yes, I still post on lj. No apologies-I have too many friends that for various reasons I don’t see making the move. EVER. Yes, I still (depressingly) get 90% of my comments there. But trusting the site, or hoping things will improve? Forget about it. I’m seriously considering either going friends only on LJ or just mirroring RL content on Livejournal (my recs are on IJ only anyway. If I were a writer or other creative person, I’d keep my shit there too). I have a feed for my IJ already, and the time may come when I might offer it to people remotely interested in my fandom musings as an option.
In the meantime, I’ll do the very least I can, which really, considering how rarely I update, isn’t much.
ONE DAY CONTENT STRIKE For one day, Friday, March 21, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be NO new content added to LJ. SUP obviously does not realize that Basic users have given something of value to them, that it is content that drives the site. So, for one 24-hour period, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT, let's see how many people we can get to pledge to contribute NO CONTENT. This will create a permanent downward spike in the daily-posts statistics, a permanent reminder of the power of the userbase. Full information at The Fox's Den. SPREAD THE WORD!
Btw, there are mass strikes currently happening in Greece (government to screw with pensions and the social state, big mess). I spent an hour and a half sitting in the dark (electrical company), tripping over garbage in the street (sanitation workers) and hearing our mayor warn us of the danger of plagues on TV (wish the journalist would strike, the depressing news is not helping morale). And I support those strikes 100% (though hope to avoid death by The Plague), so really, this is nothing. I’m kind of amused that I can’t escape the strikes though.
ariadneelda about how the move away from lj seemed to have come to a standstill and people seemed mostly content with the status quo until the next big way Livejournal would find to fuck up, which should be any day.Of course it had to happen while I was away from the Internet. My first big clue was when I was helping a friend set up an account and went “Hey, where did the Basic Account button go?”. I’m sort of caught up now, and torn between feeling disappointed to have missed it all and secretely relieved…to have missed it all.
I’ve given up on Livejournal long ago, and truly consider Insanejournal my ‘home’. Yes, I still post on lj. No apologies-I have too many friends that for various reasons I don’t see making the move. EVER. Yes, I still (depressingly) get 90% of my comments there. But trusting the site, or hoping things will improve? Forget about it. I’m seriously considering either going friends only on LJ or just mirroring RL content on Livejournal (my recs are on IJ only anyway. If I were a writer or other creative person, I’d keep my shit there too). I have a feed for my IJ already, and the time may come when I might offer it to people remotely interested in my fandom musings as an option.
In the meantime, I’ll do the very least I can, which really, considering how rarely I update, isn’t much.
Btw, there are mass strikes currently happening in Greece (government to screw with pensions and the social state, big mess). I spent an hour and a half sitting in the dark (electrical company), tripping over garbage in the street (sanitation workers) and hearing our mayor warn us of the danger of plagues on TV (wish the journalist would strike, the depressing news is not helping morale). And I support those strikes 100% (though hope to avoid death by The Plague), so really, this is nothing. I’m kind of amused that I can’t escape the strikes though.
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Date: 2008-03-19 01:52 am (UTC)I hope you have more success w/the strikes in Greece (and that they end soon because having no electricity will be a bigger and bigger problem as the weather gets warmer (not to mention how bad the garbage smells in the heat!).
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Date: 2008-03-19 10:19 pm (UTC)Btw, I got the comics. OMFG, Doctor Who!!!!! <33333333333333 Let me know when you get Dexter (hopefully when, not if).
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Date: 2008-03-19 11:18 pm (UTC)and that you got them so quickly! More will be following soon.
And thank you so much for sending the 'Dexter', I'll let you know as soon as I get them!
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Date: 2008-03-19 02:05 pm (UTC)Best of luck with the RL strike situations. I still recall when the sanitation workers went on strike here in NYC ages ago, we had piles of trash everywhere. And it took place in the summer, yuck.
The talk of plagues seems a bit...hyperbolic; I'll check the BBC and read about what's going on in your area.
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Date: 2008-03-19 10:21 pm (UTC)It makes me feel somehow better that even people in NY get to experience the loveliness of piling trash (misery loves company?).
Greek news love their hyperbole. Also, talking over guests, yelling all at the same time and running their stories for too long. Um, why did I ever consider making a career there?