No Millennium

So, I'm just starting to make sense of this Livejournal thing -- and hitting snags along the way. Being the impatient sort, I started blogging before filling out my profile. The other day I began enumerating my (many) "interests", only to find that apparently I am limited to just five. It would have been nice to have known this before I did all that typing. I guess the designers couldn't be bothered to indicate a word limit! Is intuitive, considerate web design too much to ask? Probably the limit is buried somewhere in inaccessible documentation. R(ead) t(he) F(ucking) M(anual)? It is to laugh -- nobody does that anymore! (At least I don't.) Maybe paid accounts get more space -- but I know I have seen several free accounts with more than five interests listed. Perhaps that was before the Russians took over.

Speaking of Russians, this issue of poor interface design, plus all the recent controversy over changes to Livejournal (ceasing to offer new free accounts, censorship) has me wondering whether I have chosen the right medium. But since Livejournal is the largest blogging service, I suppose I'll stay, for now. This reminds me of similar complaints about the personals site Bear411. Once these online enterprises reach a certain critical mass of users, they seem to figure they're the only game in town, and the users can go to hell. A mass exodus might prove them wrong.

But I suppose I'm a case in point for the contrary, since I'm staying . . . for now.