Current mood:

Fixin' for a fight

It's time for a change of venue.
AGH, WHY DO NEW RP GAMES EVEN BOTHER OPENING AT LJ ANYMORE?!

It is now the glitchiest site I've ever had the displeasure of using, and I use Plurk on a regular basis, so that's saying something. I can understand not wanting to ship an old game somewhere else because of history and convenience, but for a new game, you have options now. Insanejournal only glitches for about 15 seconds at a time these days, and then it's back up on its feet. And it gives you a shitton of icons, so you don't have to pay for the privelige of the site dicking you around. I get that those kinds of journaling sites might seem risky after so many have collapsed in the past, but the payoff of (supposed) security just isn't enough to outweigh the annoyances.

Dreamwidth has the code issue (and I don't know how they feel about RPs), but I see codes floating around the internet like flyers dropped from an airplane whenever LJ does something stupid, so they're not that hard to come by. Some people are even RPing on Tumblr, although I'll never really get that, because I'll never really get Tumblr. BUT IT'S ANOTHER OPTION.

Asgard, you sound wonderful, and I am deeply excited to app to you. But getting my character journal up and running this morning has been about as pleasant as a root canal without freezing, and if the site keeps being this terrible, I may not stay long. Next time, take the game elsewhere and I'll be right with you.

EDIT: Apparently the recent glitchiness is another DDoS attack, so that's what I get for getting my sick, cranky rant on without checking the facts. I thought it was still issues around that last disastrous software update. As you were, everyone, the fail is all mine here.

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	phosfate 2011-11-29 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	It's not just you. I'm sure the creators thought it was hi-larious, but it's just tacky and awful and off-putting -- the equivalent of CancerWardJournal or StatePrisonJournal or BurnUnitJournal. "Support your community with a Third Degree icon package!" "Send your friends a dose of VirtualChemo!" "Life Sentence Accounts make great gifts!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	xturtle 2011-11-29 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Holy god, I had never looked that closely. That's just not right. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2011-11-29 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Nononononono, I made those up. As similes. As one does. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	xturtle 2011-11-29 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	Gah! Meant this for the person you were replying to. I got the similes (once I checked out IJ's site), just failed at clicking the right reply button. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2011-11-29 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	:D Oh thank God! (Reply to this)(Parent)

feenix
2011-11-30 05:14 am UTC (link)

Well, to be fair...how old is IJ now? It's going on ten years, right? Fandom didn't start being conscious of social justice issues until the later part of the last decade, so yeah - it was thought of as acceptable back then. (Or at least, when IJ first came out, I don't remember people getting angry over its name.

That doesn't invalidate the concerns of everyone here, I'm just pointing out that IJ's a relic of the Internet past.

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	phosfate 2011-11-30 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	I can only say it made me pretty nauseous from the start. Fandom didn't start being conscious of social justice issues until the later part of the last decade Riiiiiiiight. (Reply to this)(Parent)

eiviiaru
2011-11-30 09:06 pm UTC (link)

The problem with that argument is that this stuff would be pretty trivial to fix. Even if they didn't want to actually change the site name, taking down the terrible mascot and changing the terminology they use to refer to communities and account levels would remove 95% of the squickiness and take very little effort on the site staff's part.

Also, echoing

phosfate -- IJ's branding was tacky and gross from the beginning. The fact that more people in fandom have become aware of its grossness in the years since doesn't mean that it was ever okay.

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	ekaterinv 2011-11-30 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	Fandom didn't start being conscious of social justice issues until the later part of the last decade I guess I imagined most of my late twenties then. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Since I'm getting dinged for this left and right...

feenix
2011-11-30 11:48 pm UTC (link)

...I phrased that extremely poorly, I'll admit.

What I meant was that - if IJ had come along even five years later than it did, I imagine that there would have been more of a stir about its ableism, partly because over the past few years (at least from my perspective) fandom as a whole has become much more open about -isms.

(I'm only replying once because I'd just be repeating myself over and over again, and really, I'm already in a deep enough hole as it is.)

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	Re: Since I'm getting dinged for this left and right... esclaramonde 2011-12-01 02:52 am UTC (link)
	I agree. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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