Xanga has GOT to GO!
I have been annoyed with them for a while now. The automatic “subscription” sort of annoys me, because they give you no warning when they are going to withdraw funds, but I can tolerate that. From my understanding, it is a nightmare to get them to stop taking payments if you cancel your subscription, which I am not looking forward to.
The constant “upgrades” that screw with the layout are getting annoying. Those “minis” are annoying. The way you get the messages now in you email, and instead of taking you to all the comments, it just takes you to the one comment in the email is annoying. But the dealbreaker for me is the hideous “home page” then have now forced me to go to. Instead of just a modified version of what the public sees, with more buttons/options, it now takes me to a whole different screen that I find really hard to navigate and find anything on. It looks like my space now. There is a reason I don’t have myspace…I hate it.
One of the things that attracted me to xanga in the first place was the ability to hardcode a layout to the way you like it. With the “upgrades” I keep getting messages that it won’t accept any deviant code, and nag messages asking “don’t you want to use one of our fancy new layouts?” Uh, NO. If I did, I would. I don’t. I am paying for this, leave me the heck alone!
Looking at getting wordpress and putting it on our private domain. It will be a bit because I seem to have lost the ability to code on my own because I haven’t really used it in recent years and need Zach’s help to get it up and going again. Ugh. I used to be a guru at this stuff, but I am about 6 years behind now. lol. I have to lower myself to using a WSYWIG and it just drives me nuts.
I’m there with you. I don’t like change unless *I’m* the one initiating it. Blech.
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You should be able to switch back to the old format. I did.
Here here. I haven’t been able to figure out how to switch to the old format either if that is an option. The new “homepage” thing, ack!!! Irritating!
Yeah, I looked at their new home page for all of five minutes and went right back to my old homepage.