The beginning of the exodus

[wiseheart]

I've created a DW community for all my writings posted to LJ. It's called soledads_library. I've already imported all entries from hiddenrealms and will continue with the import ofotherworlds_lib and edhellondawards as well, as soon as the supposedly imported comments actually show up on the site. That may take a while.

I intend to remain on LJ as long as it's possible, because, well, over nine years are a long time and I tend to be faithful. But their major fails may drive me away completely one day, and in that case, I want my comms to be available and the comments I got saved somewhere else.

The only thing I won't be able to save over are my userpics, but, well, nothing is perfect.

PS: And now LJ is bothering me about my password, too - they find it too easy to guess. I don't want to change it, dammit! It's served me well enough all these yeards!

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[bk_forever]

Latest news on the paid-account front is this:

Re paid/permanent accounts: ....no accounts will be canceled or revoked, no already-purchased paid time or paid features will be lost or anything like that. What is happening, is that we will be making some changes to the existing account structure next year. That is what these comments were referring to. This will involve changing things so users have a standard LiveJournal account to which they then can add the paid/extra features that they want separately (or feature packages/sets). The concept of buying something that's called a "paid account" is what will be removed -- extra features will be done as add-ons and add-on packages. Existing paid or permanent accounts at that time will be treated as premium/elite accounts that will have access to even more features than exist right now.

Isn't that how it already works? You buy an account then pay for extra packages? This sounds identical to what's been in place as long as I've been here.

I DO NOT like the new Friends page - or Feed as they plan to call it, which makes no sense (my Friends page is just that, I see what my frinds have posted on their journals.) Apparently it will be compulsory, we'll have no choice. Just what is it I've been paying for?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Older users who don't follow every new idiocy by default obviously don't count.

[bk_forever]

Yeah.

I'm an individual, a person with a brain who is quite capable of thinking for myself and forming my own opinions about things. Being told I have no choice is not on. I can choose to go elsewhere where my opinion counts for something. Dreamwidth is run by people who treat me like a person. LJ treats people like mindless drones.