Like, holy shit Livejournal EXODUS batman.

[moonvoice]

I hope the Dreamwidth servers aren't taking this too hard! Though for me - I haven't noticed any slowdowns.

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Comments

[silverjackal]

It's amazing -- there are as many new journals in these last two days as there were over the entire Twit-Face debacle. Of course it remains to be seen if those journals are active and/or the people making them remain or go back to LJ (or go somewhere else entirely), but it's still quite the show.

[moonvoice]

If they roll back the changes, I think most will 'exodus' back again, which is understandable. But Livejournal is giving all indications that they have no interest in rolling anything back, to the dismay of both Russians and non-Russians, so... maybe? At any rate, even if they do roll it back, LJ will do something else to screw over their users in approximately three months, I'm sure.

I'm pretty outraged over being involuntarily switched back to 'automated payments' despite never actually using automated payments on my account. Thankfully the CC info was old.

[silverjackal]

Ah, you're the first person I actually know who had the autopayment thing happen, so now I can completely credit it. Not that I thought that people were lying before, but I thought perhaps there was misunderstanding, and then ballooned because people are generally pretty angry at LJ right now. But if you've had it happen, and when you never used autopay, then obviously it's not a mistake.

As for the "change in three months" have you seen the planned site redesign? I don't have a link handy, it's buried somewhere in the depths of the News!Rage, but it makes LJ look very much like another platform, name starts with Face... :D They're really trying to be "hip" by aping Facebook, and possibly driving away their core userbase (who use Livejournal to interact and communicate much more than FB's "Wall" commenting system allows). I think I'll deliberately try to cut back on my community reading over on LJ, so I won't miss them if they go away.

[moonvoice]

Yeah, I went over to check when another person here was like 'maybe you should go check!' to LJ users. One of my accounts hadn't, but another had. I've never allowed automated payments to LJ, so that was a bit of a shock!

Apparently LJ has a D- rating on the Better Business Bureau in the US.

[silverjackal]

Apparently LJ has a D- rating on the Better Business Bureau in the US.

I wonder why? :D

[moonvoice]

I think they're really trying for a solid F now!

[silverjackal]

Heh. I've been reading the link to igrick's journal. I can read a bit of Russian, and generally there's a lot of criticism. Part way down, however, is a *gem*. Some English speaking users have been complaining about the redesign, and that maybe the Russian beta testers liked it, but not everyone, so maybe there need to be options for commenting when a Russian speaks up and translates that so far as he knows there were no Russian bloggers in the test group, and that of the reviews, most were overwhelmingly negative. Then he quotes in translation (so excuse the language please):

"fucking faggots, turn it back to the initial state and never ever touch again!"

For himself he says:

What happens is not a conflict "russian-speaking bloggers against english-speaking bloggers". It is SUP (LJ administration), that is against all bloggers, regardles of their native language.

All of this picking at Russian has had an interesting effect on my brain. I had a short nap this afternoon because I'm still thoroughly exhausted, and in my dreams there were groups of people standing around in my house, all muttering quietly in Russian. :D

Edited to add: the rest of the conversation is quite entertaining also.

[moonvoice]

Heh, Russian dreams!

And, yeah, Igrick's journal is... icky. I'm glad he's got nothing to do with the running of Dreamwidth! It's saddening though that the changes are upsetting a lot of people, and nothing will likely be done. They really just want a new Facebook, or Tumblr, or whatever. But honestly, that's what Facebook and Tumblr are for.

[sidheblessed]

Here's the link. It really does look like that other site.

[sidheblessed]

LJ will do something else to screw over their users in approximately three months, I'm sure.

Sadly, it hasn't even been three months this time. That "people being able to see other users' private info" thing was only in October. LJ seems to be screwing up more and more frequently.