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so_out_of_ideas) wrote2012-05-11 08:34 am
so_out_of_ideas) wrote2012-05-11 08:34 am
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Dear LJ, Please stop sucking.
Dear LJ,
You used to be simple. You used to make my life easier. It seems like the longer our relationship goes on, the more of a complicated, annoying, pain in the ass you are. You are taking this relationship for granted, LJ, and if it doesn't stop, I'm going to file for divorce.
This morning, I went to crosspost some icons. I've done this on LJ for six years. It used to be relatively easy. You coded the post up once, put a subject line in, and clicked submit. Then you clicked the back button in your browser. All of your nice code was still there. Your subject was still neatly in the subject line where it belonged. Now, I click the back button, and everything is empty.
Catastrophic meltdown ensues.
"WHAT THE #!@$$!!#! is this? I have to code it all AGAIN?!"
So I did. Then I copied it, so I could paste it back into the window the next time I hit the back button.
And the next.
And the next.
And the next.
And the next.
And I had to re-type the subject line every. single. time.
You might think it's not a big deal, LJ, but it is for someone like me who has 400 comms, visual problems, migraines that get triggered by long periods looking at white spaces and repetitive motion issues in her wrists. Every extra step, and every time I have to re-type something makes it that much harder, and that much less likely that I'm going to want to do it again.
It's not just about inconvenience. It's not just about having a lot of work and a lot of comms. I come to you so that I can share my content with other people easily and without headaches. Literal or figurative. I'm still here because some of my friends are hanging on to you, and I don't want to lose touch with them. But it's getting old. Really old.
You might think it doesn't matter. Just post your content to one or two communities. Fandom has a lot of overlap anyway, doesn't it? Well, yes it does. Sometimes the same people have multiple comms. But the smaller, more specific communities fill a function too. They're more intimate, and the people who post on them tend to be the same people. We notice posts there that we might miss on the larger comms that have an overwhelming number of posters. Those smaller communities are the ones who lose out when people have to choose between making 20 posts or making 2. Slowly but surely, your users are going to trickle away.
Is that really what you want to see, LJ?
I guess it must be, because you seem determined to push us out. That makes me sad. I'm sorry LJ, I don't love you anymore.
You used to be simple. You used to make my life easier. It seems like the longer our relationship goes on, the more of a complicated, annoying, pain in the ass you are. You are taking this relationship for granted, LJ, and if it doesn't stop, I'm going to file for divorce.
This morning, I went to crosspost some icons. I've done this on LJ for six years. It used to be relatively easy. You coded the post up once, put a subject line in, and clicked submit. Then you clicked the back button in your browser. All of your nice code was still there. Your subject was still neatly in the subject line where it belonged. Now, I click the back button, and everything is empty.
Catastrophic meltdown ensues.
"WHAT THE #!@$$!!#! is this? I have to code it all AGAIN?!"
So I did. Then I copied it, so I could paste it back into the window the next time I hit the back button.
And the next.
And the next.
And the next.
And the next.
And I had to re-type the subject line every. single. time.
You might think it's not a big deal, LJ, but it is for someone like me who has 400 comms, visual problems, migraines that get triggered by long periods looking at white spaces and repetitive motion issues in her wrists. Every extra step, and every time I have to re-type something makes it that much harder, and that much less likely that I'm going to want to do it again.
It's not just about inconvenience. It's not just about having a lot of work and a lot of comms. I come to you so that I can share my content with other people easily and without headaches. Literal or figurative. I'm still here because some of my friends are hanging on to you, and I don't want to lose touch with them. But it's getting old. Really old.
You might think it doesn't matter. Just post your content to one or two communities. Fandom has a lot of overlap anyway, doesn't it? Well, yes it does. Sometimes the same people have multiple comms. But the smaller, more specific communities fill a function too. They're more intimate, and the people who post on them tend to be the same people. We notice posts there that we might miss on the larger comms that have an overwhelming number of posters. Those smaller communities are the ones who lose out when people have to choose between making 20 posts or making 2. Slowly but surely, your users are going to trickle away.
Is that really what you want to see, LJ?
I guess it must be, because you seem determined to push us out. That makes me sad. I'm sorry LJ, I don't love you anymore.