Just my two-cents in case it's meaningful to anyone undecided. This is the first journal-based game I've been in and I've really been enjoying the change of format. There's something intimate in the enaction of actual journals and 'friending' that starts to fade in the comm setting. The tools you use and the way you use them define the character of your use in varied and subtle ways, but I think some of the inconveniences of the journals, especially having to deal with managing the flist, have probably shaped the community of players and their relationships to one another, as well as to the characters. Flists are journals strung to one another, communities are journals strung to a central node.

In the logical part of my brain, it's clearly recognized that the change is not that significant from a literal view. The flist when fully updated is a similar enough approximation of what a comm would give you, but the part of my brain that reacts to symbolism would be sad to make this change.

tl;dr - I would be disappointed to switch to community style since the journals are part of the reason I applied here, and I think the change would have broader ripples than just logistics. But ultimately? I would get over it.