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Not only am I not getting my DreamWidth notifications, I’m not getting them at around the same time I stop getting my LiveJournal notifications. This happens around the time that LJ gets hit with DDoS attacks.

And the DDoS attacks have me wondering one thing, because I noticed one thing that was weird—some of the latest ones have coincided with particularly bloody strings in the television adaptation of the ASoIaF novels (AKA Game of Thrones). A fairly important name in that whole deal actually blogs here (if you know that then names aren’t necessary, and if you don’t I’m not contributing to the hug/poke of death that will ensue).

Let’s just say that if the series were Twitter, all 140 characters’d be dead.

Either way, NEITHER service has been immune to the outages and derpiness that has been going around, and given the one or the other, I’m still more impressed with the old veteran at the service than the newcomer. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the young upstart, but I don’t think the mass exodus is gonna stick.

Also, Kuropantsu, if you’re listening, we need to bang our heads into keyboards to work on the second chapter. My strength is back and I’ve hit the arc wall.

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Here is an open letter of complaint to Livejournal's developing team. Spread it, alter it, do whatever you will, but make sure that this (or something similar) makes the full rounds around Livejournal's higherups' collective heads. Please note that this has to be split into two to place in comment fields. )



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A quick look at the number of complaints and the ridiculously low number of “Likes” on Facebook reveal that there are serious problems with what has been done with the site.  Rather than wank about it, I have attempted to sound at least somewhat professional with my gripes.  Though some of them I share with the larger base, there are likely other things that I have either not yet spotted, or simply have no problems with at all.  Thus, I give to you all, this: a letter of dissatisfaction, coupled with constructive solutions.  Take it, spread it, modify it to reflect your reactions as well, but above all, make sure that LiveJournal is aware of its base.  We will not go unheard.  Never has a comment section of a release been so disliked, so reviled, so very quickly.  I release this letter under the spirit of Creative Commons.  Take, share, and spread.  Do you hear the sound?  It is the thunder of keys, announcing the coming storm.

They will hear our voices.

They will listen.

Are you there, LiveJournal?  Consider this the beginning of the Occupation.
Take action, friends.  It begins now.

EDIT: 23 December 2011—Edited to reflect the workaround to the subject lines, and the interesting finding on the Dreamwidth Wiki entry, which has since been taken down but is now uploaded for posterity.  Thanks for the correction, [livejournal.com profile] lambchop_sp!

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