12-01-02 @ 2:33 am EST

I logged on to find that the portfolio limit for regular upgradeds will change soon from 1000 to 250.

I knew they were going to be limiting it yet more, but by dropping it to a mere one quarter of what it was before, I had no idea they were going to limit it so severely.

Premium limits used to be 1600; I won't even guess what they'll be now, but they'll still be too little for what I have even now.

It looks like all the deleting I did just to get myself under the current limit was for nothing. Manitou Island alone will take up almost half of my current limit.

I was going to delete everything that I didn't care for comments on. That would have lowered my limit enough, before I logged on tonight.

Now, it looks like I won't even be able to have the items I truly want feedback on posted here anymore, come the new year. My Shywriter folder, which I finally worked up the nerve to post? Most likely gone soon, after all that trouble. My short stories and novels? My serial? I'm sitting here wondering what should be deleted, if they should just all be deleted and I should just say screw it, because I've kept working so hard just to fit under the limit and now this.

I really can't comment any more on this right now. I was actually going to pay for the rest of a premium upgrade, but right now? It doesn't even look worth it anymore. Paying $110 (and that will probably be increasing) for much less space than I could get with a regular provider? I don't see the point. The ONLY thing this site truly offers anymore is community, and I could probably convince the two or three people who really read me to visit another website instead. But I'll still be missing out on the possible comments and advice I could have gotten from people who just passed by my work. I'm willing to bet I will have to start deleting journal entries very soon.

As I did last time I discovered the limit, I have no idea what to do. I was here to try to find feedback on my items, but I don't think this site offers that anymore. It's now reduced to punishing those who actually love to write more.