I...know exactly how you feel. Sadly, I'm paid up until July 2008 (after which I'm dropping down to no-paid, no-ads basic), so I'm stuck here a bit longer.
I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to extract myself from LJ, because it seems at least half the people I really, really want to stay in touch with are remaining here (they all have perm accounts, and so they're basically sitting on LJ's system anyway).
The only immediate action I can take is moving cubed_music off of LJ and making it an IJ-only com. As for fic...providing the link to an IJ post resolves my issue there. One I finish the three WiPs I've got that are two chapters from the end, I'm going to start doing that.
Like you, I hate this. But unless something major happens in the next six months, I think I'll be massively cutting back my interaction with LJ.
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I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to extract myself from LJ, because it seems at least half the people I really, really want to stay in touch with are remaining here (they all have perm accounts, and so they're basically sitting on LJ's system anyway).
The only immediate action I can take is moving
Like you, I hate this. But unless something major happens in the next six months, I think I'll be massively cutting back my interaction with LJ.