The future of lj?

[brightly_lit]

So ... how are people feeling about this whole lj-servers-moving-to-Russia thing? I saw on the home page a lot of people were afraid lj would abruptly shut down without warning. Just in case that does happen, I made a dreamwidth account--brightly_lit, same as here--where I'd love to hook up again with you ladies if you make the switch, as well.

I started with lj (under a different name) way back in its heyday in the early part of the millenium. I remember reading in the TOS that your posts and comments would be saved on lj's servers "forever," and I thought, "How cool, to have this thing for posterity when that's so rare. I wonder how they can promise that? But oh well, I guess they wouldn't say it if it wasn't true." Then they sold the company, again and again, and of course it ended up being just words, another tome created and ultimately perhaps lost to time, but if this is the end, it sure was great while it lasted. And I think dreamwidth has a lot of potential (even if for some reason it seems to lack much interaction between users).

I guess personally I think it seems unlikely they'll shut us down without warning, but it seems likely that lj might change a lot, maybe not for the better. Better to be safe than sorry in terms of coming up with a backup plan, in any case, is my opinion. Also, apparently it's quite easy to transfer your whole lj to dreamwidth if you're so inclined. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on the whole business. I saw it discussed at length on the home page, but I don't think a single person on my friends page mentioned it, so it sounds like none of my friends here, at least are worried, so that's good.

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[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

*taps fingers on her desk*

*sighs*

Excuse me bb if this comes out either punchy or a bit snippish, it is NOT pointed at you, I just...I know I can be honest here so here goes...

I'M NOT LEAVING! *Crosses arms and stomps her feet* I am not leaving, end of. The most I will do is open a new DW account just in case (I haven't had access to my DW for ages, can't find the email I used for it and no idea of the password).

*shakes head* I've lived her for nigh on 17 years now and I am not upping sticks and f*cking off to another platform. I understand that people are worried, I also understand that lj has been slowly getting less active for some, but my flist is booming and this is where I've hung my hat for what seems like EVER.

I have over 6,000 entries on this lj, I can't even contemplate porting all that over. Can you even imagine?

Russia may well wanna come poking about in my business but as I have yet to form a anti-fascist group which is dead set on over throwing Putin, I doubt very much they're gonna gain anything of interest from me. If they wanna nosey into my extensive porn collection, or see what a fangirl does with her time when she should be cleaning, or even use my artwork as an example of how not to be a good human being, so bloody be it, but what are they really going to get from us fangirls that they can use in their fight against freedom of speech?

*sighs again*

Sorry hun, I just *hands* I get so sick of hearing how this is the platform that's dying. Year YEARS I've been reading posts about it from every fandom I've been in and yet HERE WE ALL ARE STILL!

*Plants herself* Fine, I'll sit and bounce a tennis ball off the wall to keep myself occupied when everyone leaves but I am not going any where.

Obstinate Milly is in the house ;)

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

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.

Love ya, honey. <3 <3 My lj stalwart friend.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Love ya too, lol. Tell you what... Head to my page for the latest of my lj stalwart ramble. This comment plus a little extra 😉

I get you and I will re open an account eventually just in case but this is my first love 😘

[2-on.livejournal.com]

Okay except Livejournal HAS been dying for years

[2-on.livejournal.com]

I'm not talking about my flist, I'm talking about the site as a whole.

[2-on.livejournal.com]

It's not bullshit. LJ is dying. That's great if your friendslist is active but that doesn't reflect the website as a whole.

[2-on.livejournal.com]

I don't care if LJ is dying. I barely use this site.

No, my problem was with you claiming LJ isn't dying just because your friendslist is active. I don't know why you have such an attitutde.