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There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out
So I got home to discover the latest code push from Dreamwidth has effectively broken the site for me. I left a comment to that effect. It does not look as though my comment will make a difference.
I understand accessibility is complicated. This journal and DW in general was one of the few things in my life right now that did not cause me active pain. It was in fact rather sustaining. That has just sharply ceased to be the case. I have no idea what to do. I left LJ for DW. I had planned to stay here until they turned out the lights because I trusted them not to hurt me. Now my eyes hurt. I am a text-oriented person who cannot comfortably interact with the text-based form of social media which is very nearly the whole of my life online. There's nowhere to go from here. (I can't even think about the effects on my Patreon.) I am tired of being a person whose needs are disposable. I am very, very, very not happy.
[edit 2020-07-26 1:21:00] I have temporarily reverted to the old style because the alternative appears to be verging on a migraine. And perhaps in a year the horse will learn to sing.
I understand accessibility is complicated. This journal and DW in general was one of the few things in my life right now that did not cause me active pain. It was in fact rather sustaining. That has just sharply ceased to be the case. I have no idea what to do. I left LJ for DW. I had planned to stay here until they turned out the lights because I trusted them not to hurt me. Now my eyes hurt. I am a text-oriented person who cannot comfortably interact with the text-based form of social media which is very nearly the whole of my life online. There's nowhere to go from here. (I can't even think about the effects on my Patreon.) I am tired of being a person whose needs are disposable. I am very, very, very not happy.
[edit 2020-07-26 1:21:00] I have temporarily reverted to the old style because the alternative appears to be verging on a migraine. And perhaps in a year the horse will learn to sing.
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Oh wow, I FUCKING MISSED this part
Screening Comments for the night
Hi all!
I need to step away from the computer from the evening so I'm going to turn on comment screening. I think by this point we've gotten more than enough useful feedback and it's mostly just repetition on a theme here.
And, this is your once-in-a-while reminder that discourse in our public communities must remain civil. A number of these comments are getting pretty close to the line of what we consider acceptable, and we will moderate it if we need to.
Please respect that most of the people who work on Dreamwidth are volunteers and we're all well-intentioned. You should definitely assume good faith. We love to hear about your experience, but please do stay away from the invective and brigading.
Until tomorrow! -Mark
That's really....okay that's bad. That's reawakening LJ levels of "we don't want to hear you so we'll just silence you" levels of interaction.
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I understand that sometimes people need to sleep instead of moderating flamewars, but I did not like the implication that no further votes will be counted.
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I just read Userstyles in particular are going to be somewhat volatile for the next several months and DDDD:
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https://dw-beta.dreamwidth.org/14656.html
and every. single. change. is justified with "so this looks better on mobile!"
I am really unhappy about that. I've seen enough sites basically destroyed for me on my laptop because the designers decided everything had to cater to mobile users. Dreamwidth is my online home and now I feel really....idk.