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tanrien, although I see that there are more posts coming from other people as well now...?For one day, Friday, March 21, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be NO new content added to LJ. SUP obviously does not realize that Basic users have given something of value to them, that it is content that drives the site. So, for one 24-hour period, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT, let's see how many people we can get to pledge to contribute NO CONTENT. This will create a permanent downward spike in the daily-posts statistics, a permanent reminder of the power of the userbase. Full information at The Fox's Den. (Also have a look at other related entries in her journal.) SPREAD THE WORD.
Of course the best thing to do would be not even to load any livejournal page, to ignore lj for the whole day. Because viewing ads also is a form of activity, especially the one bringing money, eh?
I hope that
schattenstern doesn't mind if I link to her excellent summary of last and this years' lj wanks? I'll delete it otherwise.I'm posting this because, yes, I'm pissed off with lj. I was pissed off last year as well, but both for the
But. They can't hide things and hope that no one will ever notice, they can't not answer to uncomfortable questions, they can't treat their customers like complete retards.
And SUP seems to be doing possibly even worse. If you don't know what I mean, just follow the links or read the latest
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news posts, or ask me if you still don't know what I mean.And, okay, I will admit, I'm also majorly pissed off because they disabled the option for new basic accounts, I fucking hate plus accounts, pardon my french there. If someone has no problems to see ads on their journal, that's fine for them, I'm sure lots of people don't mind, so why should I? Unfortunately, it's not their business alone. That's why ads on other peoples' journals? Okay, I don't mind, I don't need to see them anyway. Spying on other peoples' journals? You'll wonder why I don't like that at all...
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When will they ever learn? (Though by now that should probably be "Will they ever learn?". Meh.)
Ouch, hate that too. Though I like LJ for that special autosave feature, it happened to me quite a lot of times too, but at least I don't have to rewrite the complete entry when I try again.
Honestly? I don't think they care for now, and I'm not that naive to think that they will ever care again, except for their precious ad-viewers of course. *sigh* But I seriously hope that at least they may get aware that treating their customers (because yes, I do consider myself as a customer and not just some random user who happened to choose this site over MySpace, you name it) like shit won't do them any good.
Autosave features have saved me countless times as well. *hugs them* Oh, what would Word be without you?
Agreed. *sighs* We're customers, whether we pay them directly or indirectly (through content) and if they would at least become aware of the fact that treating their customers the way they do might not be the smartest idea they ever had... okay, they might not change even then, but is a little awareness really that much to ask? *sighs some more*
Word does that too? I don't use Word, I either use OpenOffice or the Good Ol' Wordpad.:)
I guess you've already seen the translation of the interview with that SUP guy? That made me lose every single tiny little rest of faith I had that they would still one day (soon?) recognize that they can't treat users as if they were just some barely tolerated parasites on their great and shiny new bought site. I can't even express just how disgusted I feel right now.
...and sorry for the ranting, I shall rather go outside and kick a few defenseless tree trunks or poles instead of spamming other people when I'm angry...;>_>
Just finnished reading it. It's just-- I'm-- speechles. Completely and utterly speechless. (I barely managed to edit a link into my summary post. ^^) They. Just. Uhm.
I'll try behing coherent about this... later. Gaaaah!
NOOO! Not the treetrunks! Go kick... uhm... Ah! Kick that plastic bag over there, your foot will thank you. ;)
I had the same reaction. There are no words to describe that. There simply aren't!
I'd love to go and do some kicking in Moscow, but then I'd probably have to take Aeroflot and I hate that airline.;>_>
=__= Ich glaube echt, LJs Tage sind soweit gezählt... sobald sich eine wirklich gute Alternative eröffnet, wird das Fandom hoffentlich abwandern. Und dann kann eljay sehen, wo es ohne seine aktivste und attraktivste Userbase bleibt.
So ungern ich es früher bestätigt hätte, aber ja. Ich hoffe wirklich, dass es so bald wie möglich eine gute Alternative geben wird und dass das gesamte Fandom auswandert, vor allem nach dem einen Interview mit einem der SUP-Fritzen zu dem ich in meinem soeben geschriebenen Eintrag gelinkt habe. Ich bin gerade so sauer auf LJ, das gibt's gar nicht!
Angeblich sei das Fandom nicht die wichtigste Gemeinde auf LJ, es sollen mehr "normale" Menschen hier schreiben und posten. Angeblich. Was die Zahlen angeht mag ich hier nichts bestreiten, solange ich keine handfesten Zahlen nennen kann, aber zahlen so viele von den "normalen" Usern auch für ihre Accounts und zusätzliche Userpics? Ach, nein, vergiss was ich sage, die bezahlten Accounts sind ja nur ein kleines Zubrot, die Werbung ist ja das Wahrhafte, was hier am meisten Geld bringt. *headdesk*
Sag mal, ich erinnere mich, dass du mal von einem Account auf JournalFen gesprochen hast, aber hast du auch etwas auf Insanejournal? Falls ja, was sagst du persönlich bisher dazu? Die meisten Auswanderer scheinen ja inzwischen dahin zu tendieren, aber mir fehlen noch Empfehlungen von Leuten die ich kenne.^^;
... also mit IJ kenne ich mich selbst nicht so recht aus, aber das Problem damit ist leider, dass es auch nicht mehr als ein unbekannterer LJ- Klon mit weniger Funktionen ist. DH, im Moment ist es da vielleicht ganz schnuckelig und fandom-freundlich, aber wenn die Seite wächst? Der Betreiber verkauft? Dann geht das ganze Drama von vorne los und wir müssten wieder alle umziehen.
Den Schluss, den ich so gezogen habe (der aber nicht stimmen muss) ist, dass es momentan einfach keine bessere Alternative gibt, für die sich ein Umzug im großen Stil lohnen würde. :-( Meine Hoffnungen liegen bei Scribblit (eine Art Fandom- LJ- Projekt) und bei der sagenumwobenen OTW, auch wenn ich keinen Schimmer habe, was die für ein Archiv planen (und ob es überhaupt auch für Fanart ist?)
Jau, dieser Artikel ist echt eine bodenlose Frechheit. Ich meine, die wildesten Auswüchse des Fandoms sind wahrlich nicht schön anzusehen, aber wenn Fandom nicht die größte Userbase von LJ ist, dann doch die aktivste, leidenschaftlichste und spendabelste. -__-
Was für Honks...