A brief history of me

[skalja]

I started this journal 10 years and 4 days ago. Yes, LJ really did get me the best anniversary present ever! It's certainly not dissuading me from finishing my DW migration when I get home in February, that's for sure.

Hey, remember when I used to post five-plus one-line entries a day instead of a single tl;dr entry every couple of weeks? Also,

Comments

[elizaeffect]

What's going on with LJ that people are saying they're ditching? I've seen this twice today and I can't figure it out. Was there an outage I was lucky enough to miss?

[crystalpyramid]

The main noticeable thing is that they overhauled comments pages completely, eliminating subject lines, and they handled the public-relations side of it even more dickishly than we've come to expect.

[skalja]

Yeah, what Jillian said. Basically, they changed a couple of functions that nobody thought needed to be changed and got snippy and dismissive when users spoke up about how the new changes were anywhere from mildly annoying to impeding their ability to use the site to making it difficult for them to screen out disturbing or triggering content (because a lot of people use subject lines to warn for triggering material in the content, and those warnings disappeared when the changes rolled out, so ... yeah ...).

[skalja]

Here's a decent write-up of the situation, actually.

[mizzmarvel]

I used to be that way on LJ too, though I still tend to post a couple times a week. I miss how active LJ used to be, but I also don't have the free time to be so active now.

[skalja]

That's a good point. I mean, LJ does have a pretty wide age range but it does cluster quite young, and the people who were in their teens when LJ was a real player in social networking are now adults with work or studies, possibly family to care for, etc. Meanwhile younger kids now have Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, all of which cater much better to that kind of sprawling off-the-cuff connectivity.