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My comment to lj on their most recent snafu is here.

It is in response to a quote in an article: "LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership."

This quote not only exists, but Lj linked to the article on their homepage. They are essentially bragging that they don't give a shit about the people who have been pouring money into the site and their pockets for years. This bothers me as a consumer. I don't love dreamwidth, but this is the first thing that has ever had me seriously doubting whether or not I want to stay on this site. Before I had some faith that they knew what they were doing and would try to keep both incoming and old users happy. Now it's abundantly clear that they don't really care about us.

subject one

so i started this dreamwidth with the same user name. friend me there. or don't!

thoughts of thinking

I am sort of confused by all of the options on dreamwidth (grant access, subscribe, whatever), and honestly that's always been one of my biggest problems with it. I treat my friends list as just that - a friends list; it's a list of people I enjoy being around and interacting with and want to be friends with. A "reading" list full of people who can follow me while not allowing me to follow them and vice versa feels way less personal to me, and I just don't like it.

Also not having a ton of icons. The thing that may keep me going back to Lj is that I DO have a permanent account, and while their attitude towards their user base frustrates and angers me ...I have 200+ icons, and I get all of the storage and features without having to constantly throw money at them. And I have thrown a lot of it. I had the money back then. I don't know if I have it in me to pour hundreds of dollars into another site that's really just a back up for me - a consolation prize so to speak. It doesn't feel the same. Maybe it eventually will but not just now.

I don't know. Just thinking thoughts or whatever.

Also can you install mood themes here? And how?