Scrapbook 'Migration'

[lunadelcorvo]

Good god, what a joke! Will LJ NEVER stop screwing us over with poorly executed garbage?! Here is my submission to support about this, because I am too pissed to write any more ATM.

1. Roughly 1/3 of the pictures that were supposed to to have migrated are not there. They show as blanks squares in the gallery, and when I click 'original' it gives me a page of HTML (code, not rendered HTML) saying 'this pic was moved to...' These are not duplicate images, they are just not there. Some of them tell me the name of the image that was there, some don't. Am I supposed to guess?

2. I had several galleries which had sub-galleries - for examples, the gallery 'Panama' had several galleries broken into different areas of Panama. Now they are all at the same level. So there are no 'nested' albums now? No way to group related sets of images?! Seriously? You call this an improvement?

3. Minor, but this is exactly the kind of thing that should have been corrected BEFORE this went live - When browsing albums, the pane on the left shows the 'selected' or current album, the pane an on the right shows all the albums. So I page over to say page 4/6, and open a new album. But look, the album list reset to page 1/6. That is really, really stupid. To go over and check security on galleries, I have to page over in the list every. single. time. Yes, it's minor, compared to the other, more fatal flaws above, but it's an example of the kind of poorly thought-out, careless, sloppy work LJ turns out these days.

In summary, I am so, so SO, sorry I paid for a permanent account. I know my voice as a user means nothing because I can no longer threaten to withhold my almighty dollar. But I am vocal, and really, really, pissed. And plenty of other people are pissed, too. Maybe you hadn't noticed the steadily mounting numbers of people leaving to go to Dreamwidth, or just giving up on the journaling model altogether?

P.S. That nice little message saying I could view a detailed log of the migration (so maybe I could actually figure out what got lost in this mess)? That link takes me to 'Page not found.' OMG, LJ, you fail SO hard these days!

Comments

[girlspell.livejournal.com]

I just got my migration notice. Some of my pictures are missing. :(

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

They do this stuff, that's supposed to be wonderful, but they never fix things that are actually wrong, and they 'new stuff' they toss out is so shoddy and poorly planned, it shouldn't even be called 'beta,' let alone be released live! It's like they have a bunch of stoned interns churning out whatever they think will be cool, with no one actually paying any attention. I hate to be a drama-lama over this, but I am SO disgusted right now.

There isn't even any way to know what's missing, that I can find, other than hoping you remember 'Hey, didn't I have a pic of a llama in here somewhere? Where did it go?'

The last straw is the 'log' of the migration giving me a 'page not found' error. It's like the final 'f*** you!'

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... speaking of which-- do you have a Dreamwidth code?

I've been thinking for a long time that I need to hedge my bets. The crickets have been singing for a while now, and I'm not trusting this format to stick around. Given how addicted I am to journaling? Yeah...

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'd be happy to send you an invite! What e-mail do you want me to send it to? (You can msg me if you'd rather not leave an e-mail addy here).