Dear LiveJournal...

[julesjones]

I note with interest that you are pushing through yet another compulsory change in the display of my LJ, in yet another frantic attempt to ditch the features that made me choose LJ in the first place in favour of attempting to lure users of other sites by replicating the features that make me wish to not touch those sites with a bargepole.

I further note that today I received a notification that my paid time expires in 12 days. Which means I should have time to export my entire damn LJ over to DreamWidth before I have to pay you more money to avoid ads on my LJ.

Why is this latest piece of contempt for your existing userbase likely to really be the final straw for me, when various other idiocies were weathered?

I have migraine. I have severe RSI and frequently need to use accessibility software. I have sundry other medical issues, which taken all together mean that your proposed changes are going to make it damn near physically impossible for me to use LJ in any meaningful sense without a lot of pain. Literal pain, not metaphorical pain. As in, taking heavy duty painkillers. Do Not Want. So I think my renewal of my paid time will be one month, rather than one year, while I make sure that my data has transferred over properly.

Comments

[green_knight]

It's just one thing after the next. The comment pages doesn't disturb me too much [*] because most of my friends have custom schemes and the rest I can either visit quickly or view in my own style - theirs gives me a headache - but the new... not even friendslist, _Feed_ is unusable, headache-inducing (even though I don't get them from anything else) and the way in which LJ fucks over their users is... no. Just no. I've just requested an import of Everything to DW, and am likely to set my older LJ entries private and turn comments off. The live version of the Feed page is even worse than the screenshot, and I certainly won't be able to use it as an RSS reader in the future.

[*]
Well, it does. I don't want to read it. I don't want to hang out there, I don't want to revisit those pages, and I cannot be bothered to wade through my icons which are now sorted in order of upload, so most of my comments now have a generic icon.