Nightmare

[pedanther]

Last night I dreamed that I came here to update my blog, only to find that the site had been shut down without notice and all Dreamwidth addresses now redirected to an ecommerce site flogging garden supplies.

At the bottom of the site, in tiny print, was a link to an announcement unapologetically stating that the shareholders had deemed Dreamwidth uneconomical and talking around the fact that - as my dream-self recalled - there'd been another statement back when Dreamwidth was bought out where they promised that it would stay the same old Dreamwidth and there would be no big changes without community consultation.

(At least I can be confident that, in the waking world, the actual owners of Dreamwidth wouldn't pull anything like that on us.)

(Now, Tumblr, on the other hand...)

Comments

[igenlode]

back when Dreamwidth was bought out where they promised that it would stay the same old Dreamwidth

Now that sounds all too familiar from just about every takeover story...

[thisbluespirit]

there'd been another statement back when Dreamwidth was bought out where they promised that it would stay the same old Dreamwidth and there would be no big changes without community consultation.

Ha, oh, dear - yeah, we've never heard that before... XD