I've been sporadically watching the explosion on the release announcement post (http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html), which is closing in on 7000 comments, the vast majority extremely angry. This latest release has crippled a lot of RPs and anon comms, anywhere which relied on subject lines (especially for things such as trigger/NSFW warnings), mobile browsing, and reading comment threads on the default style. Meanwhile, Russian-speaking LJ users have been translating the head of LJ Russia laughing at the people who are complaining, calling English-speaking users "mice", and just generally being a jerk. This not to mention the complete asshattery of the "WE'RE GOING TO GET RID OF COMMENT SUBJECT LINES AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO MAKE US RECONSIDER THIS" in earlier discussion of the changes. And, yeah, they got over 1000 comments beging them not to, and true to their word, completely disregarded them all.
So, yeah. I already have a Dreamwidth presence, but I know I'm going to let these paid accounts expire and probably only maintain an LJ presence via crossposting. LJ has given every indication that they either don't care about or actively disdain their userbase – their English-using userbase especially. And my patience for that sort of thing was already wearing thin.
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I've been sporadically watching the explosion on the release announcement post (http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html), which is closing in on 7000 comments, the vast majority extremely angry. This latest release has crippled a lot of RPs and anon comms, anywhere which relied on subject lines (especially for things such as trigger/NSFW warnings), mobile browsing, and reading comment threads on the default style. Meanwhile, Russian-speaking LJ users have been translating the head of LJ Russia laughing at the people who are complaining, calling English-speaking users "mice", and just generally being a jerk. This not to mention the complete asshattery of the "WE'RE GOING TO GET RID OF COMMENT SUBJECT LINES AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO MAKE US RECONSIDER THIS" in earlier discussion of the changes. And, yeah, they got over 1000 comments beging them not to, and true to their word, completely disregarded them all.
So, yeah. I already have a Dreamwidth presence, but I know I'm going to let these paid accounts expire and probably only maintain an LJ presence via crossposting. LJ has given every indication that they either don't care about or actively disdain their userbase – their English-using userbase especially. And my patience for that sort of thing was already wearing thin.