Thanks fer comin' out, LJ

[shadowspar]

Checked in on LiveJournal just now on account of their latest security fail, and elected to delete my account there rather than keep it hanging around. I don't use it any more, so it doesn't represent anything more than a potential liability anyway.

I'd considered doing so (and really should have done) a while back when it was pointed out to me that they'd started running really obnoxious ads, like full-page / interstitial ones, or banners with scantily-clad imvu anime icons. No, I don't see that stuff myself (I've not touched the site in the past 18 months, and I run NoScript anyway, which means most of the crap doesn't load), but it still bothers me when they put stuff like that next to my smiling face and the words I wrote. I still like the people on LiveJournal, but the antics and long history of fail of LJ Corporate, not so much.

Thanks for coming out, LJ.

Comments

[pinesandmaples]

I'm not sure what to do about my LJ. I feel like my perm account paid for itself, but what about the few friends I really like who refuse to move?

Ugh.

[libskrat]

That's where I am, too. I never post there, but I have about three people I follow who do.

[pinesandmaples]

Yeah, my favorite people are all friend's only over there.

Dear LJ,

I wish you wouldn't put me in such terrible situations!

no love,
pinesandmaples/colorwhirl

[azurelunatic]

I've gone to friends-only commenting over there, and am reducing the number of friends I have.

All of this cluster of privacy shenanigans seem to hinge on the person whose account's privacy is being compromised having visited somewhere while logged in. In one of the discussions of this, someone put forth the proposal that people just ... log out, expiring all their sessions on the way, until at least a day after there are no more reports of this sort of tomfoolery. That way one can still at least *read* over there.

[shadowspar]

TBH, I just let mine sit for a long time.

I'm fortunate in that the time when I switched to DW coincided with a shift in the people I spend the majority of my online time hanging out with.

Many (if not most) of the accounts on my LJ flist were either inactive or extremely sparse. The majority of the ones that weren't are folks I see on twitter, so I don't feel like I've lost touch with them completely.

All in all, though, mine's a pretty unusual case, I think. =/ *hugs*

[dingsi]

IIRC the served ads included other failtastic crap too -- for instance NOM had a banner ad in 2009, the Google adsense stuff included links to tr***y cam sites when you put "transgender" in the interest search field, eating disorder communities featured weight loss ads ...

[shadowspar]

Wow, both of those are an order of magnitude more faily than the stuff I saw to piss me off. FFS, srsly LJ.

[phecda]

I deleted all my posts over there sans the one saying I'd moved to DW. Still read there because a number of friends still post there. Offers of free DW accounts hasn't gotten them to budge yet.

[shadowspar]

Yeah, I've employed the same strategy, on some of the same folks. Showers of DW invites combined with the prospect of a site that's not so full of fail hasn't been enough to get ppl to change gears. But that's ok; different things are important to different people.