sorcyress | (no subject)

....Kay, in other news, I have a new entry for the collective "Livejournal is stupid."

See, for a couple weeks or so, I've been having trouble with my tags --they won't show on the entry, meaning I can't tag entries, meaning I can't find things in my journal (Not that I can much find them anyways)

So, since I specifically wanted to search a particular tag (conventions) I actually hit the "tags" button on the bottom of my last entry, to try and enter the tags there, since they weren't showing up when I entered them in the tags box on the update page.

When I tried to enter the tags there, THEN it gave me the helpful message that, by putting all the tags I wanted on there, I would exceed my limit of 1000 tags. Hm, gee, I would have really liked to have heard that message the first time you fucked up and didn't tag my journal, elljay. Fucker.

Soyeah. I have to re-reread* my journal and go through the tags and see if I can cut it down to under 1000 easily and in a way that makes sense. This is such bullshit though. If elljay is going to keep me from using enough tags to get to the entries I want, can it at least have a better search function? If I want to find a specific entry, I search my gmail inbox to find the entry, not the journal itself.

Yep. Elljay sucks. What else is new?

~Sor
MOOP!

*I reread it just before Seren died. Fucker.

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Filed a suggestion with them?

soyeah, this has been a LOUD AND ANGRY bone of contention between several old-skool LJ users and the Powers What Be. (Myself included). Both of my LJs are paid accounts. Both of them are over the 1000-tag limit. You can tag entries with existing tags, but you can't add any new ones, and if you type a new one into the text box for "tags", it will just decide you didn't mean any of them, which is the part that makes me really steamed.

It's the reason I'm (supposedly, supposed to be) working on leaving LJ.

Yep. I wouldn't be so upset if they had ever specifically told us that there was a 1000 tag limit, and more importantly, if they had explained why it wouldn't show any of my tags whenever I did the new one thing.

I really don't want to leave livejournal --it's comfortable (and I'm lazy) and all my friends are on here. That said, I really don't much want to keep putting up with their shit.

~Sor

Every year or so, I archive my LJ into a PDF. Then I can search the PDF when I want to reread/refer/reference something. Works well enough.

That makes...a lot of sense, actually.

I actually do ninty percent of my livejournal searching using my gmail inbox, since I've got at least one comment on pretty much every entry. But still, tags are a slightly less specific way to do it.

~Sor