And Rage

[mishalak]

Gah. I cannot post comments anywhere. Stupid LJ. I wish to the stars that I'd never paid for a permanent account so I could dump this cursed worthless evil company. If I had money I'd use it to start a rival service for the only purpose of putting them out of business. If someone were starting a new service with half a hope I'd contribute money just to hurt LJ. I HATE THEM.

My mood is not at all helped by the fact that I'm seriously stuffed up right now. My head cold has not abated a bit, if anything it has gotten worse.
 

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if not being a member of any of these things, and using RSS feeds to follow the people I care to follow, might be the right approach for me. I could comment in my own blog if I thought they read me (gosh, isn't that the way it was originally done?), or maintain an account for commenting only (that's where I am on LJ currently), or comment anonymously. Originally the "friends list" was the killer ap that forced me to have an LJ account, but that need may be passing.

I don't know if deadjournal.com will actually be reliable, stable, or well-behaved over time, but I think there are other spin-offs running the LJ software but with different policies.

Is your "can't post comments" a block, technical glitch, unexplained bug, do you have any idea?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

No idea what is wrong or when it will stop. I've just tried closing and reopening firefox. If you can see this it is some sort of unexplained bug, but my motivation to leave livejournal is still very, very high.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And I can indeed see your reply to my comment.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

RSS feeds are a great way of agregating lots of journals one wants to read. Much better than the LJ friends page. But the killer one that got me onto livejournal was the content control one. I like being able to give certain posts to just a whitelist of trusted readers. And to put different readers in different groups. So insanejournal, deadjournal, or one of the others has a certain pull for that reason. But it would be starting over and I do not know that I want to start over using the same LJ system... I don't know that I'd trust any service to do that anymore.

So maybe I should just give up on that. Keep my old LJ posts in an archive and from here on out post only those things to a journal that I do not mind the whole world associating with me. Though it makes it much less of a journal if I cannot even keep certain posts entirely to myself. Bleh.