Alritey, I am, for the most part, leaving now. I can't spare the time it takes to work around all the problems here just so I can blog. Blogging should be fun and spontaneous, not slow, tedious and frustrating.

I can no longer use my browser of choice to post. I cannot stay logged in. I can't put things onto a simple webpage whereas I can anywhere else. I cannot even save my personal data such as my name and birthday or gender. I cannot put a pic on my 'About' page. Personally, I feel like a software guinea pig.

The editing box is a nightmare. It's the same at work or at home. There is no search. I had to make one. I know I am not the only unhappy camper. I really don't understand why 20six--whoever 20six really is--took a basically sound system with a few problems and decided to switch it over to something that obviously has many shortcomings and glaring deficiencies. Why? There are lots of open source systems with proven track records that could have been used anyway.

I was willing to stay and try to make things work until I could no longer post or edit with my K-Meleon. I will not let a blog dictate to me what I use on the net.

All this sadness I have seen from people who think just because we choose to make our net homes elsewhere, we will lose each other is totally erroneous. The net is a large space but very well-connected. If you want to keep track of people, learn about feed readers such as Bloglines, and put the links of all your favourites into it. It will tell you every time the sites are updated and give you the link to read the posts. There is no need to conglomerate all in one place. To each his own. Some people are happy here. Some people will stay here just for the challenge. Some people think other places offer more advantages. Me, I am going.

I am not quite sure where I will settle. As I have mentioned before, you can always reach me at >>fuise<<, and I may stick around the new blogs.ie site I made >>here. I may make a new site. I really prefer LJ except for the layouts and a few other restrictions. I can use Semagic and find any post I ever made in a minute and edit just as quickly. You cannot beat it.

I do not mean to sound ungrateful. If the problems here were fixed and we had at least what we used to have with the old software, I would come back--and I also know it doesn't matter a fig whether I leave or stay. People have more important things to think about. It's just a personal thing.

I wanted it to work, but it isn't working. I will miss the comments and camaraderie. I wish you all the best. I am leaving the site up because there are posts on it about my wee Oui, whom I still miss, and because I don't believe in burning my bridges.

Don't forget to take a look at the search post after this one. That's my farewell gift to you.

Cheers,
Fiona