LJ

[tanngrisnir]

I like LJ less and less, though using Firefox on my usual boxes it's OK, because that's adblocked to the gills. When I have to use another browser or even FF on another machine, which occasionally happens, the experience is bloody awful. In fact, the last time I did I gave up because the site was unreachable behind an ad layer that wouldn't go away

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[entorien]

I always get a little confused when people talk of adverts on LJ, I assume you have a free account? I have a paid, plus ad-blocker, so I don't even see the internal ads for LJ games.

I did try Dreamwidth, but just couldn't get comfortable with it.

[tanngrisnir]

I find DW quite like LJ used to be, though not exactly and it isn't perfect. Generally, it's less faff.

Yes, I have some variety of free account. But I think the ad that was particularly a pain was nothing to do with that, since I didn't even get to the point of logging in.

[weofodthignen]

As he said in response, there are also massive ads on the log-in page too, now. (And video ones on the pages of the people with supported accounts or whatever they're called - the ones that give you more userpics than basic accounts, and that were the only kind of free account you could create for a while). I didn't realize how bad it had got till my desktop machine died recently and I was using the laptop, which didn't have AdBlock. Whooooooaaaaa.

I like the cut of DW's jib. I wish more people would sign up there and just use the crosspost function, but I admit that having a paid account and liking its few benefits - lots of userpics, the ability to make polls and being able to edit one's comments for oopsies are the only ones I can think of - would make one reluctant to do that.

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