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Just curious, how many of you have left LJ for DW and never looked back?

*raises hand*

I was just wondering, because I've noticed a lot of people lately who come over here to DW to "try out it" and see what the hype is all about, but then they abandon DW a few weeks later just to go back to the abusive spouse that is LJ (this boggles my mind). For me, the final straw was when the DDoS attacks first started occurring way back when. I'm so numb to the aftermath of what LJ has become because I honestly couldn't care less, as none of their changes affect me since I'm not there anymore. All the complaints people have about LJ's changes leave me wondering why the eff people don't just abandon ship already!

It really is a shame that more people won't ditch LJ for the worthless piece of crap that it is. Furthermore, I can't begin to understand why anyone would continue to pay them any money. I stopped paying them in 2008.

youronewish

Yet more unwelcome changes to LJ's commenting system, which has resulted in FandomSecrets moving to DW.

As with the previous unwanted, largely protested change, it doesn't appear to be affecting custom S2 comment pages. But unfortunately for communities, S2 comment pages have proven to be detrimental for many of them, and workarounds are getting more and more ridiculous and painful for moderators. And now this latest change is all but forcing communities to either change over to a comment system that still hasn't shaken off its beta bugs but doesn't take several minutes to load -- if loads at all -- or put up with it if they want to remain on LJ.

Did LJ's developers fail to predict that this particular change would be the final straw, or they were hoping for that reaction? As

technophile pointed out, LJ has been outright hostile to fandom for not months, but years. It might very well be that the only communities that are desired by LJ's owners are non-fandom ones like

ontd. Truthfully, I don't believe it's a deliberate push, merely a serendipitous outcome for them in their self-image, if not their ledgers.

In any case, with FS moving, will this be the necessary push to start fandom moving off LJ?

songfire

via

theljstaff...

I don't even know what to say about this any more...:

[..." First, the core belief that LiveJournal is a safe harbor for expression, outreach, and discussion. Second, the idea that member feedback is vital."...]

[ "Your feedback is an integral part our design approach and influences what and how features are implemented. Given the large scope of the work being done, our response time might be longer than expected. Rest assured, though, we are eager to keep things working effectively and in a way that best embraces the ideals of LiveJournal and its passionate members."....]

...now they're just trolling us, right?!

Current Mood: amused

songfire

"The Return of LiveJournal":

By: Neal Ungerleider

LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users. Oh, and "Game Of Thrones" creator George R.R. Martin is a big user.

( read more... )
However, longtime LiveJournal users are upset by the changes. LiveJournal recently unveiled a complete redesign that overhauled the service's comments system, emphasized social networking, and set the stage for the upcoming communities blitz. Reaction from longtime users has been overwhelmingly negative--LiveJournal patrons slammed the redesign on the service's official blog.
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. The challenge for Petrochenko and other executives at LiveJournal will be redefining the brand's identity in a crowded media marketplace.

Current Mood: annoyed

jhumor

According to this comment in

news

(Reposting full comment since some people still can't access comment pages)

bearer_of_dawn
Update: LiveJournal is refunding any paid account payments from December, they just have not announced it here. This is probably because it's creating an opportunity to lose more money, but legally they are covering their asses by providing refunds if requested thanks to the billing/autopay bug. They'd have potential legal consequences otherwise.

You can submit a request here: http://www.livejournal.com/contact/?dept=billing

Accounts paid in November or any month before December will not be refunded, however. (Thus my opinion that this is strictly legal ass covering.)

Current Mood: artistic

full_on_zombie

Greetings everyone!

I am not sure if I am understanding access/subscriptions correctly here....so I'm sorry if this is a really stupid question...

But none of my friends from LJ can view my entries here on DW, even though I gave them accesses (they are logged into their accounts on LJ).

I also can't see their posts on my reading page even though I am subscribed to them.

Did LJ now block the ability to share connections from there to here, too?

Thank you for reading :)

Current Mood: confused

vickyblueeyez

Not many are happy http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html
I wonder how many will come over here now.

sharpiefan

This is probably going to sound a totally dumb question and it's probably been answered somewhere - I'm just not sure where. And I hope the following makes sense!

Question: Is it possible to somehow subscribe to your LJ flist on DW, rather than just subscribing to your flist's OpenIDs? Because, unless I've got it set up wrong, I've got subscriptions to their OpenIDs, but they're not showing up on my DWircle, presumably because they're not updating as the OpenId, but as whatever LJ name.

I miss reading my LJ flist, but don't want to have to go back to LJ just to keep up with it, if I don't have to.

Current Mood: determined

richmodis

lj-releases.livejournal.com/67287.html

Users who have enabled Comment IP logging will now also see the Country and City information of the commenter. This information is only visible to the journal owner, community owner/maintainers, or author of the entry if it is posted to a community with this feature enabled (only those who can currently see IP information). This feature is providing the publicly available geo-location associated with the IP address in the same way the "location" feature on our Update page currently functions.

Edit: Message received! We're in the process of removing this change right now. I am positively surprised how quick LJ backtracked.

Edit 2: The change is now live on the site; country and city information is no longer being displayed with the IP logging feature.

Edit 3: New poll at http://lj-feedback.livejournal.com/16181.html regarding IP logging!

moem

Let's all huddle around our bright and warm DW, now that LJ is dark and cold. Anyone know any good stories?

*hands out hot cocoa and biscuits*

betterdazed

Hi guys!

Is it just me, or is LJ down for everybody else? I haven't been able to load a page for the past 15 minutes.

madelief

I'm posting this with a sockpuppet account, because everyone who's gotten even remotely involved in this (including a deceased person!) has had their LJ account suspended. Everyone. People who stood up for the original user, people who stood up for those people, people who re-tweeted information about this case. And while I'm not particularly attached emotionally to LJ, I have reasons to keep my account active.

Deets. As far as I can tell, this whole thing centres around a woman who is the subject of LJ rumours that she's dating a J-pop idol. And which LJ staff member (A) has been known to harass users with sockpuppets and (B) is into celebrity news...? (Don't answer that. Just think it.)

I'm not going to ask anyone to compromise the safety of their LJ accounts, but please signal-boost this as much as you can without risking yourselves. People have to know about this.

juliet316

It seems that people are expressing themselves about the LJ/FB/Twitter Patter situation in many ways.

For instance, one submission for this month's LJ header contest:

http://community.livejournal.com/remixed/126121.html

Needless to say, I was amused.

*also screencapped incase LJ deletes it.

ETA: FU Tinypic!

Current Mood: amused

chaobell

From the latest at

news:

We've disabled the ability to cross-post comments on privacy-protected entries and screened comments for non-Cyrillic users. If you've opted into Cyrillic services, you'll still be able to cross-post protected and screened comments.

...so basically, you still won't have control over cross-posting of comments on your locked entries if the commenter is opted into Cyrillic services.

I don't even.

juliet316

Apparently Facebook users can send LJ users private messages into their LJ inboxes.

*no screenshot as I impulsively deleted as soon as i saw it.*

Current Mood: annoyed

moem

This post I wrote last year may be of use to people who have come here from LJ, as I have.
I had trouble getting LJ-Sec to work with Dreamwidth, found a way to make it do what I wanted it to do, and decided to write it down in case others have the same problem.

Hope it's helpful!

blackmare

I wrote up this Basic info/FAQ over at the other site.

Please feel free to copy/paste it anywhere on LJ, personalize it (I made reference to my own LJ activities; replace those with your concerns if you like), whatever. I don't need or want credit. Actively prefer NOT to be credited anywhere outside LJ, in particular, though I don't suppose I have to tell y'all that. I mean, considering why we're all here. :-)

A couple people noted that I didn't include the apparently-pending FB "Like" button, or the problems with pingbacks on locked posts. This was intentional, because I feared making a Wall of Text that nobody would read. If you want to repost what I wrote and add it, though, cool with me.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

samsharessometimes

Well, I made it! I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy my stay here.

I imported my account. It's a little scary... so different from the stuff I just got used to. Anybody know any FFVII groups that are active?

I heard on LJ that Dreamwidth might be making it possible for people with burgeoning accounts and communities to import over here? Some of my friends are a little concerned about the size of their journal and their communities. Is it true that it might be possible soon?

I'm going to play now, my account is so new and shiny :P I need to get used to here :) I need to find the comm list, if there is one. Things seem to be so much more private here. I love it.

Btw, looking for friends! I'm going to write fanfic that is FFVII - centric. Also I'm studying XHTML and CSS to build pages. I kind of got into that suddenly after the Twitbook LJ merger :/ but it looks like it's going to be fun. If you think we'll have something in common add me?

Current Location: Dreamwidth, not LJ

qarael

Somebody in the

lj_releases community finally got a response from the support forum:

(Oh hai, you're here! Thx chaobell for capping this insanity ;])

In case it hadn't been noticed before, all support requests relating to the "connectivity ~~fuckup~~ feature" had been marked 'private'. Now, while it might be nice to believe that this was truly done to "aggregate user questions and feedback", I just can't bring myself to do it. I mean, you'd think they would have solid DNW data after we maxed out the news thread.

Yeah, nah. Seems more likely that they're just trying to shut us up and hide their shame.

What's worse... there's not even the slightest shred of a rumour going around headquarters that this problem might be fixed? Nice attempt at a straw-man, there, bringing up the morals and ethics of controlling how other people can use their words. Well, if you want to shake your finger at us for wanting to "control what User B does with their words", then you should probably take away User A's ability to screen, freeze, and delete comments, as well. That's the only way your little issue-of-ethics could even begin to make sense.

But really, I don't want to control what User B does with their words. If they want to say, "I read a blog, and it got me thinking...", that's perfectly fine! I want to control what they do with my words, and my information.

At any rate, Tuesday is essentially gone here on the East Coast. So I suppose we'll hear no news today. Tomorrow marks a week... and will hopefully serve as the final-straw for even more dedicated journalers.

beatrice_otter

One of the great things about DW is the way it handles OpenID: if you have imported comments from your LJ, you now have the comments in OpenID so the original posters can come in and have the same control as if they were posted from a DW account. And I'm sure you have friends at LJ who may not have transferred over, nor have any plans to do so. With OpenID, they can still comment on your posts without being anonymous: great! OpenIDs can even have a reading list (check out the OpenID faqs for more details)

However, if you wish your friends still on LJ to be able to use OpenID to comment on your locked posts (or even see them), you will need to add their OpenIDs to your access list. To do this: go to the Organize menu on the main menu bar (which you can find on any of the site scheme pages--the posting interface, your profile, etc.) and select "Manage Circle." It will take you to a page with three lists: every person in your circle, every community in your circle, and finally every feed. (Remember that the circle is the DW equivalent of friends list, except it differentiates between "subscribing" (i.e. reading their stuff) and "granting access" i.e. permission to read locked stuff.) At the bottom is a form that says "Add Relationships." In the column marked "Account name or OpenID URL" you can put the OpenID of people you wish to grant access to (remember to do it in the form "example.livejournal.com," so if you wanted to add my LJ persona it would be beatrice_otter.livejournal.com). Check the "give access?" ticky box. Since an OpenID account can post comments but not posts of their own, there's nothing to give access to. If you want to change the foreground/background colors for that account when they post comments on your journal, you can do so. Then scroll down and click "Add/Save."

(I've been here a year, and I only just realized I needed to do this.)

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xoxomarina - hmm.
youronewish - FandomSecrets moving to DW
songfire - ~Finally~ a response from the source!
songfire - Well, isn't this just lovely...?
jhumor - LJ OFFERING REFUDS!
full_on_zombie - Access/Subscriptions with LJ users
vickyblueeyez - LJ took away subject lines
sharpiefan - LJ subscription query.
richmodis - Comment IP
moem - What... no post on the DDoS attack yet?
betterdazed - LJ is down?
madelief - Yet another terrifying example of LJ in action
juliet316 - A little something amusing I found at LJ's remixed comm...
chaobell - In which LJ is now just being deliberately obtuse
juliet316 - Well here's another indication of LJ/Facebug/Twitter Patter
moem - How I got LJ-Sec to work with Dreamwidth
blackmare - For those who need to explain the mess to their LJ friends
samsharessometimes - Moved all my stuff :P
qarael - (no subject)
beatrice_otter - On OpenID and locked posts

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Abandon Ship! Abandon Ship!

Let's admit it: sometimes change is excellent.

Entries tagged with livejournal

hmm.

FandomSecrets moving to DW

~Finally~ a response from the source!

Well, isn't this just lovely...?

LJ OFFERING REFUDS!

Access/Subscriptions with LJ users

LJ took away subject lines

LJ subscription query.

Comment IP

What... no post on the DDoS attack yet?

LJ is down?

Yet another terrifying example of LJ in action

A little something amusing I found at LJ's remixed comm...

In which LJ is now just being deliberately obtuse

Well here's another indication of LJ/Facebug/Twitter Patter

How I got LJ-Sec to work with Dreamwidth

For those who need to explain the mess to their LJ friends

Moved all my stuff :P

(no subject)

On OpenID and locked posts