They're Not Even Trying Anymore, Are They?

[danalwyn]

Every once in a while I worry that I'll lose my job, and that I won't have the skills to manage to get another one. After all, the world is full of talented and experienced people, many of whom seem to be in my field.

Then I visit LJ. Honestly, if people are getting paid to roll out changes like that, then I've got no worries at all, do I?

Comments

[danalwyn]

Moving over may be a smart thing - I'm beginning to entertain notions that they want a fairly large part of their userbase (the freeloaders) to move off. The fact that they've screwed everything else in the process is...amusing to say the least.

LJ just seems to no longer have any knowledge of how to do software development. If something ain't broke, you shouldn't try and fix it, and if you do "fix" it, you should make sure that your fix does everything the previous code does...which this does not. It leaves me seriously wondering what they think they're doing.

[silverjackal]

I'm beginning to entertain notions that they want a fairly large part of their userbase (the freeloaders) to move off.

They are presumably trying to emulate Facebook, but what they don't seem to grasp is that most of Facebook's user base consists precisely of "freeloaders". They're the source to be datamined and sold advertising *to*. So yes, they're not paying directly, but without them there is no business. Then again, LJ's grasp of customer service is rather amusingly retrograde. Still, people validate that by staying with the service, so... *shrugs*.