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maybe it's time to wave goodbye
Jan. 29th, 2012 03:36 pmYou know what the worst part of LJ fucking things up left and right is? It means I have to resist the urge to begin taking a shot each time someone suggests moving to dreamwidth... like it's something completely unheard of. I have the exact same kneejerk reaction i do to anything that everyone else on the planet is gushing over: I want no part of it. Do you know how fucking long it took me to watch Titanic? And even then it nearly killed me to even go near it because it was still so freakin' beloved back in the dark ages. So each "Go to dreamwidth, it's heaven on earth!" made me far more determined not to do any such thing.
Until this: LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership.
Y'know, I've overlooked a lot of crap and I've bitten my tongue because some things I could say would just be entirely too bitchy to ever allow out of my own head, but I seriously thought the powers that be were smarter than this on some level. New customers are only new for so long, there are only so many people on the planet willing to give you a shot, and if you're ready to turn on the people who kept you afloat while you fucked them over and then brag about it who the fuck is going to want to join up for that? (Yes, the answer is people who don't know that's what's been going on. But you know what LJ does better than anything? Drama. They've got this.)
So. This isn't the I'm jumping ship notice. This is the I don't fucking want to jump ship notice. I don't want to deal with what's left of my friends' list fleeing to other corners of the universe. I want you guys to stop fucking things up so massively that the only logical step is to smack the lot of you upside the head with frying pans. Serious, actual bodily harm seems to be the only recourse at this point.
*holds head in hands*
I still remember zed demanding that everyone in #hansonsucks (IRC) join LJ back in 2000:
ho hum.. lets see what we have here. what to do, what to do.. how could I refuse zed and his plea of :
* zed bugs imp about signing up 'cause he doesn't wanna be the only other person in south carolina :P
Yes. May 2, 2000. Not this account, of course, but my previous one that I still check in on but do not actively use because it's sort of like looking into your high school journal/diary and cringing at how friggin' dumb you could be. Not enough time has passed that you look back fondly, but enough has that you feel that possibly you've grown in some way. That said, I believe I sounded far more intelligent there than I tend to sound here.
Anyway, I appear to have imported my journal to my neglected dreamwidth account. I'm impy over there. I don't really expect to be all that... enthusiastic about jumping, so it's most likely to be kept in case. The emergency exits have been clearly marked and all that.
Until this: LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership.
Y'know, I've overlooked a lot of crap and I've bitten my tongue because some things I could say would just be entirely too bitchy to ever allow out of my own head, but I seriously thought the powers that be were smarter than this on some level. New customers are only new for so long, there are only so many people on the planet willing to give you a shot, and if you're ready to turn on the people who kept you afloat while you fucked them over and then brag about it who the fuck is going to want to join up for that? (Yes, the answer is people who don't know that's what's been going on. But you know what LJ does better than anything? Drama. They've got this.)
So. This isn't the I'm jumping ship notice. This is the I don't fucking want to jump ship notice. I don't want to deal with what's left of my friends' list fleeing to other corners of the universe. I want you guys to stop fucking things up so massively that the only logical step is to smack the lot of you upside the head with frying pans. Serious, actual bodily harm seems to be the only recourse at this point.
*holds head in hands*
I still remember zed demanding that everyone in #hansonsucks (IRC) join LJ back in 2000:
ho hum.. lets see what we have here. what to do, what to do.. how could I refuse zed and his plea of :
* zed bugs imp about signing up 'cause he doesn't wanna be the only other person in south carolina :P
Yes. May 2, 2000. Not this account, of course, but my previous one that I still check in on but do not actively use because it's sort of like looking into your high school journal/diary and cringing at how friggin' dumb you could be. Not enough time has passed that you look back fondly, but enough has that you feel that possibly you've grown in some way. That said, I believe I sounded far more intelligent there than I tend to sound here.
Anyway, I appear to have imported my journal to my neglected dreamwidth account. I'm impy over there. I don't really expect to be all that... enthusiastic about jumping, so it's most likely to be kept in case. The emergency exits have been clearly marked and all that.
