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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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BarefootDreaming
When I was on EP before I only blogged a few times but I also was shocked to see the notice a couple of days ago that this feature was being removed. I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't clicked on a blog to read. I don't understand EP's management of the site anymore and am so disappointed in the way it's slowly being destroyed. One of the reasons I loved the site was for the value placed on writing now it doesn't seem as important. I understand that sometimes change is important but not when it destroys the original purpose of this site.
You can measure the value now placed on writing by the fact that they took away our right to have titles for our stories.
BarefootDreaming
This is true, I remember when they took that option away I was so upset! My titles were carefully chosen, a part of each story. Anyone who enjoys writing knows the value of a title.