What can brown do for you?

[laughingman]

I was on LJ, but left due to people being asshats. I joined again recently, and still found asshattery... but from LJ as well as from the peeps.

I mean, the whole layout has changed, it's a pain in the ass to use now, and when I left LJ the first time, DW wasn't really that active.

Now it is though. Woo boy!

I haven't heard a lot of the recent crap, so I'd like to hear your stories.
What all has LJ done to piss you off? Is it letting stalkers go free (while you get a bad rep from the Support team who then ignores all your support tickets afterwards while stalking continues)?
The new layout? The way they're more business-oriented and not user-friendly like they used to be?

What pisses you off in particular? Why are you glad you joined DW?

Comments

[jae]

Actually, I'm glad I joined dreamwidth because I think it's way cooler than livejournal, not because of how angry livejournal made me. Am I alone in this?

-J

[laughingman]

How much cooler is it? What defines 'cool'? Though, I hafta admit, the header (being able to change the color) is kinda awesome.

[jae]

Well, it was the division of 'friends' into 'access' and 'reading' lists was what drew me to begin with (livejournal promised to do that for years but never followed through). But I also think the different reading list culture that resulted from that, the expanding cut tags, and the dreamwidth staff's willingness to implement things that the users want are incredibly awesome. Just as a start.

I guess what I'm saying is that it was important to me to have a positive reason for leaving rather than a negative one. And even now, I'd still rather concentrate on the awesomeness of dreamwidth than the horribleness of livejournal.

-J

[madelienegrey]

These are a few of my favorite things.

[mrs_tribble]

No... I think that, for me, it was a mix of hating what LJ are doing and just liking it better over here.

[laughingman]

It sucks that, ever since it was sold to the russians, that's who they're catering to. I blocked a spambot and it was reported as one. It was banned and then UNbanned! Whaat?

[mrs_tribble]

I've had that happen too... it's just stupid.

Anyway, I'm not the only person not renewing their LJ subscription. The staff here are so nice that they get my money instead (I'm paid up for a year).

Blogging sites need to earn my respect, and LJ lost it.

[laughingman]

Yeah. Why did people go back in the first place after the Strikethrough? I'm guilty of feature-glamour (ooh! shiny) but I just.. why is LJ still going? Seriously? When will people have enough?

[mrs_tribble]

I ask myself the same question...

PS: Have added you to my circle :)

[pyrasaur]

Complacency, probably. It's one thing to get mad when a site's staff did something stupid yesterday. It's another thing to keep remembering why you left when the site's staff haven't done anything stupid lately (and your friends are having a fun party on Livejournal without you).

[laughingman]

Well, I'm sorry if you think that's the case.

Everyone's story is different I suppose.

[laughingman]

And just because they haven't done anything stupid to me doesn't mean they don't have daily stupidity with other people!

If my 'friends are having a party without me' then they weren't friends. They're candidates for LJ staff.

...If you're being snarky, you should fit right in. Which.. I think you're a great candidate yourself so far from your current attitude.
You should join up!

[blackmare]

Um ... what?

What attitude?

All I saw there was Pyrasaur stating that there are reasons people don't leave LJ over the various dumb stuff LJ's ownership does. I'm not sure what you're reading into it, but what I'm seeing in your response is that you've got a huge "us vs. them" chip on your shoulder.

I was very vocal about my dislike, okay, hatred for the FaceTwit fiasco, which finally pushed me to move over here, despite the fact that many of my favorite people were not going to follow suit. Inertia is a factor. Years of history is a factor. Interacting with communities people know and love, is a factor (and I think that's what Pyrasaur meant by the "having a party"). Acknowledging those factors isn't being snarky or copping an "attitude."

If you haven't yet, I hope you'll read last week's dw_news post, in which Denise explains why she hopes to see a lot less LJ-bashing among DW users.

[laughingman]

Honestly, my stalkers have used the -exact- same phrase. Pardon the paranoia.

I'm not actually trying to bash, though it might seem that way. I've got a lot of hate for LJ and its more unfriendly userbase, but I'd rather bash the false idealism that LJ has turned into. True?

[pyrasaur]

Uh? I was stating a possible reason in a hypothetical "you" sense. If you read tons of snark into that, that's unfortunate.

[capybara_cafe]

Wow, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? That person's comment is a perfectly reasonable reply to the question it was in answer to 0_0

[dreamatdrew]

Nope, you're not.
I came over here because of cool people and a cool project.

I left LJ because I simply DON'T HAVE THE TIME for duplicate reading lists.
(Though, I will be honest and admit that some of the idiocy from LJ-as-entity (as opposed to the LJ userbase) did make leaving a bit easer)

[jae]

Totally agreed on that last point!

-J

[madelienegrey]

You are so not alone. I mean, LJ scared me with the latest privacy gaps, but frankly, I'd been drawn to DW earlier and found it to be so much niftier.

[0jack]

No, you're not. I got fed up with LJ long after I joined DW. I just thought that DW had the advantage of being at least a 3rd gen clone of LJ and run by people who had been part of the inner workings of LJ for years.