I said I'd never post here again, but things are happening in LiveJournal-land that people may not be hearing about unless they subscribe to </a></b></a>
news, which is where all their dirty laundry ends up coming out, not in their posts, but in the comments from users. In the interest of convincing people that
InsaneJournal is the way to go, here's an update on how low LJ has sunk.
Let's concentrate on the past few days alone.
NO MORE BASIC ACCOUNTS. That means that if you sign up for a new LJ, you see ads or pay up. Did LJ announce this? No, they hid it in their FAQ, but someone saw it and called them on it in the comments of
THIS post (the fun begins on Page 2.)
Then the next day, after thousands of angry comments, instead of posting an apology for being underhanded, they
scolded us for daring to catch them at it.
Today it was discovered that they've removed 'fanfiction', 'yaoi', 'boys', 'girls', 'bisexuality', and 'depression' (just to name a few) from their 'popular interests' list! For details, go
here.
So not only is LJ anti-fandom, they're blatantly homophobic.
Btw,
here is a post running down all of LJ's screw-ups in recent years (up to the removal of Basic accounts.)
This post is still Friend's Only because of my stalker issue, but you may copy/past it and any of the links to your hearts content.