24-hour LJ hiatus
Mar. 20th, 2008 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberStarting in about 2 hours is a Thing, where people will not post LJ posts or comments, or go by any LJ site, for 24 hours. Midnight to midnight GMT, which for me on the Pacific Coast is 5 PM today to 5 PM Friday. The object is to introduce a noticeable dip in activity to protest the recent yoinking of the free ad-free account option. I'm going to be taking part because I'm annoyed at LJ and because I'm interested in how it will work.
Why be annoyed at LJ? Well, it was my intention to keep trying to get all the people I know to get LJ accounts so that I could maybe post the occasional friendslocked thing and have them be able to see it, and so they'd perhaps be more likely to be able to keep up with my life and the lives of other people we're interested in. But bedamned if I'm going to tout ad-spamming crufty crap accounts... So that makes it less likely that my friends will be on LJ, which makes it less valuable to me. Also, I was considering setting up accounts for future RPG characters, or perhaps an account for RPG stuff or other stuff... Ad-based accounts are distinctly unappealing.
Paying is also unappealing, as I'm not interested in buying something which is constantly getting crappier... The only change that's been good in the last few years is tags. On the other side, there's anti-nipple, rolling over to freak conservative groups, hideous info-tracking page-preview boxes, useless header rows taking up screen space, and the continual blind-dumb seekrit-society lying-through-the-teeth attitude of the folks in power.
I like the friends page of LJ, where a bunch of posts are reliably conglomerated, with color coding and avatars to tell posters apart, and cut tags socially enforced; I like the mostly spam-free nature of LJ; I like the simplicity of posting and commenting; I like the reliability of email comment notification; I like the ability to click around and look at new people and new avatars. But LJ seems bound and determined to cut its throat. Every damn time they make it harder for cool people to be here, they're making it a less appealing place for me to be. So, perhaps there will be a large enough dent in their traffic this Friday to encourage them change back, and rescue this particular slide towards suckiness.
Why be annoyed at LJ? Well, it was my intention to keep trying to get all the people I know to get LJ accounts so that I could maybe post the occasional friendslocked thing and have them be able to see it, and so they'd perhaps be more likely to be able to keep up with my life and the lives of other people we're interested in. But bedamned if I'm going to tout ad-spamming crufty crap accounts... So that makes it less likely that my friends will be on LJ, which makes it less valuable to me. Also, I was considering setting up accounts for future RPG characters, or perhaps an account for RPG stuff or other stuff... Ad-based accounts are distinctly unappealing.
Paying is also unappealing, as I'm not interested in buying something which is constantly getting crappier... The only change that's been good in the last few years is tags. On the other side, there's anti-nipple, rolling over to freak conservative groups, hideous info-tracking page-preview boxes, useless header rows taking up screen space, and the continual blind-dumb seekrit-society lying-through-the-teeth attitude of the folks in power.
I like the friends page of LJ, where a bunch of posts are reliably conglomerated, with color coding and avatars to tell posters apart, and cut tags socially enforced; I like the mostly spam-free nature of LJ; I like the simplicity of posting and commenting; I like the reliability of email comment notification; I like the ability to click around and look at new people and new avatars. But LJ seems bound and determined to cut its throat. Every damn time they make it harder for cool people to be here, they're making it a less appealing place for me to be. So, perhaps there will be a large enough dent in their traffic this Friday to encourage them change back, and rescue this particular slide towards suckiness.