claudeb | Social Media May (Reply)

So, it's been almost a month since I posted anything on Dreamwidth, and a look at my recent writing suggests it's time for a social media status report.

For one thing: I missed it at the time, but a couple of weeks ago FurAffinity updated their terms and conditions, with a small but essential provision: no Nazis. Yep... took them a while, but they finally did that. And from the sound of it, the service is doing well otherwise too, so they might be around for a while after all.

I'm still not so sure about Tumblr, which recently deployed an updated dashboard that almost forced me to abandon the service. To their credit, fixes appeared quickly, and now it's merely annoying as opposed to unusable. Somehow, I doubt that will be enough to stop its decline, but hey, the new owner is actually trying.

That leaves DeviantArt, which also deployed a new dashboard to go with their new Eclipse theme. At least the latter was only unneeded and unwanted; the new dash is so heavyweight it caused my defective spare computer to start acting up again after I had just stabilized it. Luckily groups still work with Javascript disabled, enough to let me recover some old blog posts: the only things I really care about there.

Suffice to say, I won't be going back, and a lot of people seem to share my feelings. Maybe I'll start over somewhere else... someday... if I can bring a few friends along. Maybe.

More likely however I'm going to do more in places that deserve it, such as right here. Won't be the same, but oh well.