tenshinoakuma | (no subject)

"You wanna chat with me? Tough break-- I'm married. Go flirt with someone else."

LMAO AT THE IDEA OF SERPH FLIRTING.

That said, here's my two cents on the whole LJ thing. I can live with the changes. Change happens all the time and you can either throw up your arms and complain about it or you can adapt. As much as I can see why these changes are terrible in the eyes of LJRP, you do have to admit that the LJRP side of things is a (vocal) minority.

Aside from the bad customer service, my real beef with LJ is how unstable it's been lately. Some of it is due to DDoS attacks, which are not their fault at all. The rest is due to LJ rolling out heavily bugged site updates. I expect there to be some bugs whenever there's an update, because that's just the nature of software. But when things like privacy and user money are compromised, that's just bad practice. (P.S. if you have a paid account, you'll want to check whether automatic payments have been turned on. Apparently the last update has randomly switched auto payments on.) The fact that users expect LJ to break whenever there's an update is really telling.

The long and short of it is: I'm semi-moving to Dreamwidth. I say semi because I'll still be checking my LJ flist and crossposting stuff from DW to LJ. I'll see what I decide to do about

inktrain later when I'm not doing other stuff. Honestly the main reason for the move is because whenever I want to type long tl;dr posts, LJ keeps being down.

If you want to add me on Dreamwidth, feel free to do so.

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/adds

Maybe we could wait until DW can import comms to bring inktrain over, or something like that.

Yeah, that's mostly what I'm waiting for. And to see whether it can do auto-LJ comm crossposting the same way it can do LJ cross posting, since urgh I post to way too many places. If I included DW, it'd be like. LJ, DW, tumblr, dA, FFnet, AO3... never mind fandom comms as well.

imo I think that'll be a bit of a long shot, but we'll just wait and see. :|a Since getting into SPN I've been crossposting a lot too, although the fandom doesn't seem to leaving LJ anytime soon I'll just stick around LJ. (Especially since I'm no longer in RP too.)

Yeah, it is a long shot but there's no harm in hoping xD. I have no idea what the TWEWY fandom's like in DW, but it's been pretty quiet on LJ so I'm not really missing out. Granted, it's like some TWEWY people are in every single website I am on, so it makes no difference to me. But if LJ suits you better, then I hope it continues to satisfy you bb ♥

I'm just really bothered by LJ's site outages, especially since LJ is my main blogging site, so it's a shame it's had to come to this. I admit I was going to give LJ another chance but with the mention of my game potentially moving and DW not needing invite codes for this week, I really don't have much reason not to give DW a whirl as a 'just in case' my game does move.

Yeah LJ doesn't bother me too much - as long as I get my direct thread links back and maybe the return of subject lines, I'm pretty okay. I do have DW (had it for like a year plus already), but at this point I don't see much use for it still unless my main fandom suddenly shifts there or something, which at this point really doesn't seem that all likely.

But it is a shame that LJ's latest stunt has made people like this through. It was pretty much a matter of time, but still. Kind of a damned shame.

I consider it the straw that broke the camel's back. While I do think the rage and vitriol (especially directed at people who have nothing to do with this) is uncalled for, I do feel that the future of RP on LJ is looking pretty bleak.

Fandom and general blogging will probably be fine, but when most of RP demands multiple comments a day and for the site to actually be up for people to pass activity checks, it's really an issue. In the last 6 months alone, my game's had to waive the monthly AC about 3 times because of LJ not working properly for a good portion of the game. The enjoyment vs hassle of having RP on LJ is just tipping more and more to the hassle side so I guess that's why people are actually legit leaving for DW.

It's been on the rocks for a while now, yeah, but the latest update just kind of ruined everything. It's messed up too much, especially for those on the RP front. It's pretty much the reason why it doesn't bother me as much as it should, since the only RP thing I have going is in my musebox and the occasional dear_mun post.

But yeah - tbh, I think this is pretty much coming, especially with what's happened. Anyway, if you're moving to DW I'll be okay with it too - just more crossposting work for me, I guess. XD tbh, I really don't mind too much. Feel free to go ahead with what you want, I'll be supporting you either way. ♥ We're the only people posting to the comm anyway ahahaha.

LJ made changes?

I'm ignite over at Dreamwidth, I'll hop over too since I quite like the site and IT'S NOT LIKE I DON'T USE ENOUGH SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ATM

My LJ upgrade expired anyway...

Yeah. Aside from the changed comment box that I'm sure you can see, they removed subject lines (which had LJRP up in arms) and supposedly broke the way threading works. You can't link to parts of threads, only to the first comment in the thread. Additionally, the site is apparently near unusable for mobile users, which happen to form a good portion of the RP scene. You can probably guess why LJRP is so mad about this.

I don't know what the other changes/issues are, but I do know that some people with paid accounts suddenly discovered that automatic payments were turned on for them, so you might want to double check with yours.