What fresh fuckery is this, LJ?

[ratherastory]

So in spite of vociferous protests, LJ has gone and changed the comment box format. Among the "improvements":

- No more subject line
- No more drop-down box to select icons (instead there is a bandwidth-sucking thumbnail view)
- No more thread and parent links in posted comments
- No more ability to preview comments before posting

You know what? This sucks. How am I supposed to run ohsam, in which I always track comment threads by subject title? WTF, LJ? It wasn't broken!

Okay. Other moderators, have you given any thought to a workaround on this? At this point, I am close to letting my paid account & icons just lapse and to find some damn where else to post, but I've been with LJ for nearly ten years and I hate change.

Thoughts?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Dreamwidth. Dreamwidth is awesome. And free account creation with no invite till...I'm not sure exactly but I think it's the end of the year. I bet if you pack up ohsam and move it to Dreamwidth, we'll start getting other people to move off LJ because they were only staying for the comms. Hell, I'm only staying for the comms, and because it's easier to track you and setissma and a few other people via LJ flist than by RSS feed on DW reading page.

DW and accounts

[starwatcher]

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What she said -- Dreamwidth is responsive to its users, and people don't need an invite to set up a free account until the end of the year. But, also, if comm mods want to migrate to DW, they can contact support and get a kind of "comm code invite" to allow all your members to use the same code, instead of finding their own. (For anyone who considers doing this after the first of the year.)

Hmm... I'm seeing a subject line for this comment. (I'll put one in and see if it shows up.) Maybe LJ is making more differences between paid and unpaid? If so, even worse suckitude; subject lines shouldn't be a type of 'premium'.
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