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[charliesmum]

Here I am, posting from Dreamwidth. Just...well...just because, I guess.

Am wondering how many of my LJ friends are migrating/have migrated here. I'm hoping some of the communities come here, if LJ really is going the way of the dinosaur, because I really like the communities I'm a part of on LJ.

I think it's kind of interesting that TPTB on LJ haven't noticed that DW has gotten tons of new members as a direct result of the cross-posting kertuffle, and haven't at least tried to do some damage control.

Anywhoodle...

Who else is coming to Dreamwidth? Anyone? Buller? Does anyone get that reference anymore?

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[gehayi]

Hello! I'm here too. I've turned off automatic payments to LJ; I'm going to let my account there lapse to Basic; as I know damned well that a lot of my friends do NOT like change and are not coming over to Dreamwidth no matter what LJ does. And I still can't import Femgenficathon over here, and that comm is important to me.

I think that's why LJ isn't doing any spin control. They're hoping sheer inertia will take over. And if it doesn't--well, I think it's a safe bet to say that LJ's staff does NOT like its English-speaking customers. This is what's been going on:

- The staff's blatant disregard for LJ's own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy...

- LJ's disregard of the fact that ALL public AND friend-locked entries currently allow for cross-posting to Twitter/Facebook... "Once we implement this change, it will no longer be possible to cross-post screened comments or comments left on Friends Only entries. " (IE: not NOW!)

- "Share This" link now shares whole posts with over 50 various 'social networking sites'... rather than just sending one e-mail with link (which is the way it used to be).

- The staff is refusing to do anything for "a couple of weeks"...when they know this is a serious security/privacy bug.

- LJ will allow customers to "opt out" of all other forms of "journal promotion"--but not these.

- Staff are allowed to troll the News site and to be overtly abusive to its userbase in writing...and then deleted everything to cover their tracks. AND they get keep their jobs afterwards; after all, they're not doing anything that would be considered outrageously unprofessional in any other business...oh. Wait.

[rpdom]

Like you I've turned off automatic payments to LJ (the b'stards implemented this change a couple of days after my last yearly payment went through!). I'll let my account lapse to a basic one and probably deleted most of my posts over there (they're imported into DW and I have backups).

I've seen several friends move over to DreamWidth in the last year or so for various reasons, including something to do with logging links followed to certain sites for advertising purposes. Those didn't affect me, so I stayed, but my journal is locked for a reason. I don't want it to be public. I trust my friends, but I no longer trust LJ.

I'd be even happier if a DW paid account cost about the same as an LJ one, and if they had image hosting. However I have at least three other places I can put pictures and link to them, so that will have to do for now.