If there is such a thing as a loyal customer, I am one. But Livejournal have gone too far.

[fpb]

All these posts came out in a few days:
http://pandoraculpa.livejournal.com/316776.html
http://falco-conlon.livejournal.com/430965.html
http://wemyss.livejournal.com/331582.html
I am going to try to move to Dreamwidth, but that is going to involve having to archive and save my Livejournal stuff, and that might take time and/or effort. But as far as I am concerned the bastards have messed us around once too often. Three strikes and you're out; or as we say in Italy, Uno perdona, due perdona, tre bastona. Once you forgive, twice you forgive, three times and you take a stick to the sod.

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[frittomisto.livejournal.com]

Fabio, good luck and godspeed (and please provide a link) for your faithful readers.

Non per rompere los cojones, but the Italian version of that saying didn't sound right to my American born ears, so I checked and found this:

http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Perdono

Una volta si perdona, la seconda si bastona, (la terza si canzona).

I guess living in the UK has made you more forgiving! Down here, già alla seconda si bastona!

In any case Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones - and all the best with your blog wherever you decide to park it in cyberspace!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I assure you that in my family it is said as I said it. Remember that there is no such thing as an Authorized Version of proverbs.

[pandoraculpa.livejournal.com]

You won't need to archive your LJ. On DW, you can import your entire journal, lock, stock and barrel. Profile, friendslist, entries, comments- it's a thing of beauty. Right now, because everyone is leaving, the queue takes awhile to process, but they do it all for you. Very simple.

If you do end up with a journal over there, please be sure and let me know. My journal names there are exactly as they are here.

[filialucis]

I can confirm what pandoraculpa said. If you're doing it when there's a large-scale influx of disgruntled ex-LJers into DW, it's entirely possible that the process may run very slowly or even fail outright, but sit tight and have another go when there's less traffic and it'll import the lot, comments and all.

The only thing DW doesn't (yet?) do that I sorely miss is image hosting. The moment they get that sorted, I won't be renewing my paid LJ account any more.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I hope I got it wrong. Do you mean that the posts can't hold pictures, or videos? Because you know I use them a lot.

[filialucis]

No, no, you can embed pictures and videos perfectly well, it's just that DW won't HOST your pictures the way LJ will if you have a paid account. If your pictures are on Photobucket or wherever you'll be just fine.

I'm not sure whether the video embedding works properly with posts imported from LJ, though; I think there may be some incompatibilities in the code. It isn't an issue for me because I don't do much video embedding. But I do have a fair number of pictures on LJ Scrapbook that I'd want to move over to DW before giving up this account.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Thirding the "moving is easy" comments. And despite the hordes of disgruntled LJers, it seems to be fairly quick--I only decided to move my journal over on the 21st, and it was complete as of yesterday evening.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Baffled - fogged - can't see all these changes people are complaining about

HMM... JUST GOT THIS

[joetexx.livejournal.com]

Dear joetexx,

In order to show our appreciation for your loyalty and support during our recent DDoS attacks, we've added two weeks of Paid time to your account. You can view your account's new expiration date by visiting your Account Settings page while logged in

AND MERRY XMAS!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://shiokku.dreamwidth.org/363.html

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

If even half of this is true, it's pretty creepy :/

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Created a Dreamwidth account; I'm mentalguy there as here. Not sure if I really want to import my LJ wholesale or not.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Well, let us know when you're there. I have an account too.

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

I moved my whole journal over there last night--it was finished by this morning, but my video links on LJ didn't come through, so I'll have to figure out how to post them to DW.