LOLLLL I love this response. :-D Good for you, bb! (Indeed, I'm sure it would take DAYS to transfer your entire lj over to dw!)
I don't worry, myself, about our fandom stuff; even if people wanted to poke around in it (not like the vast majority of what we all post hasn't been public from the beginning, anyway), I don't see how it could cause a problem. The main concern seems to be that vast numbers of Russian blogs are jumping ship to dw, and since the English-speaking side of lj hasn't been profitable for many years, people are afraid they'll suddenly shut it down entirely ... which I find highly unlikely, although I do find the gradual breakdown of some of lj's features concerning. I guess it's possible they might shut down just the English-speaking side? I don't know. People just know the laws and attitudes about all these things are different in Russia from in the States, and things might change, so some people are concerned.
On the plus side, dw has the same base software as lj did when it started, so it's a lot like lj! And you can have it auto-cross-post to lj if you post over there, to make things doubly easy.
But good on ya, and yeah, I doubt it's the end of lj, it just seems wise to me to have a backup, JUST IN CASE.
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Date: 2017-01-06 08:36 pm (UTC)I don't worry, myself, about our fandom stuff; even if people wanted to poke around in it (not like the vast majority of what we all post hasn't been public from the beginning, anyway), I don't see how it could cause a problem. The main concern seems to be that vast numbers of Russian blogs are jumping ship to dw, and since the English-speaking side of lj hasn't been profitable for many years, people are afraid they'll suddenly shut it down entirely ... which I find highly unlikely, although I do find the gradual breakdown of some of lj's features concerning. I guess it's possible they might shut down just the English-speaking side? I don't know. People just know the laws and attitudes about all these things are different in Russia from in the States, and things might change, so some people are concerned.
On the plus side, dw has the same base software as lj did when it started, so it's a lot like lj! And you can have it auto-cross-post to lj if you post over there, to make things doubly easy.
But good on ya, and yeah, I doubt it's the end of lj, it just seems wise to me to have a backup, JUST IN CASE.
Love ya, honey. <3 <3 My lj stalwart friend.