LJ Users: unfortunate heads up

[bookshop]

In case you've missed it:

LJ has just announced its latest public beta release. In this release:

LJ is doing away with customized friends pages and turning everyone's friends pages into a default style (yes, like on your Tumblr dash). It is supposed to look like this (via twissie) --

Comments

[morningapproach]

Wtf! I'm so cancelling my subscription after my year is up :(

[firefox1490]

And this is why I didn't re pay for my paid account.

[pinkporca]

Mine looks like your first picture - so far. But the endless scroll did not scroll any further for me after like what used to be two pages (previous LJ style). However, I have a choice at the top of my screen to switch between old version and new version. That is how I got to go to the previous page or else I would not have been able to see the postings. The choices may change though.

[effervescent]

I have a slim hope that they might listen and change things, but I honestly don't think they will. Considering how loud the howling was about the comment page and it's what I'm having to use to reply to you... We're not their main revenue stream anymore, I'm guessing, so they can afford to piss us off and lose all of us to other sites.

[dybji]

Ugh.

Most of my e-friends are still on LJ, but at this point it's tipping over into becoming actually unusable as a fandom/networking site. :((