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I Want to Improve the Experience Project

Appalled That EP Is Destroying Blogs

It's stunning. I'm almost at a loss for words. Blogs have been a very, very important part of the life of EP. Members have a lot of memories around blogs. Is it EP's calculation that the more serious folks on EP, the ones to whom blogs mattered more, have mostly already been driven off the website?

EP used to value writing. EP should be embarrassed not to have blogs! Just like it should be embarrassed not to have polls. What other websites add and promote, EP tosses overboard. EP should be embarrassed to be destroying the content of us members, who are totally responsible for making this website what it is.

Blogs did offer members the opportunity to express themselves with their nasty enemies kept away if they set it to Friends Only. It's a shame to lose that.

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I don't believe I received an email notification of this!
It was only by sheer accident that I found out. I decided to check on the I Want to Improve the Experience Project group for the first time in a long time. I happened to see churinga's protest story in this group. It is abhorrent that there will be many people who will be taken by surprise by this aggression and will not have their stories saved.

EP, you ought to reverse this terrible idea. But if you don't, you should at least save all the members' blogs (with comments) so that they can receive them on request when they find out what happened.

For so long, the "development" of EP has only consisted of destroying features, (or changing features for the worse) by the hundreds, and never adding anything to the site. I thought that in mid-2014 you had finally concluded you had done enough destroying. But now you're back in the destroy mode with the same old excuses.

If you get rid of personal messages, so many people will leave this site in a hurry it will make your heads spin--and your revenues plummet.

I am also dismayed that EP Support seems now to respond only rarely to the stories in this group.
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Rolle2323
EP will do what EP has decided to do. As a long time EP member I know the futility of attempting to protest. You are probably not aware that blogs crashed several weeks ago. No one was able to access blogs for two days. It was after the crash that EP decided (I am assuming for reasons of manpower, time, and money)....to discontinue our blogs. I mourn their loss with you. There are fewer and fewer reasons to visit EP.
I'm sure you would agree it's a flimsy excuse. Thanks for informing me of the crash. As for the crash--big deal!! That's life on the Internet. Stuff like that happens. It does not begin to justify this aggression against the membership.

Have you had a lot of friends leave EP or become de facto gone?
Rolle2323
My friends remain....but many of them have changed their names. I have approximately the same number of people in my friends circle....but I no longer know who is who....except for a treasured few.
I have noticed that on threads of stories and of the now-deceased blog posts, one sees a lot of comments where the author responds to a comment that's no longer there because the commenter is gone.

There used to be a lot of thriving "communities" on EP, circles of people who commented on each others' stories and loved and supported each other. It seems like EP's worsenings have practically wiped out those communities. There used to be real joy on EP,, but now the joy is gone from EP.