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I've heard rumblings of "the end of LJ", which always seems to happen whenever LJ does something stupid (like ticking off someone's fandom) or it goes down for awhile (stupid DDoS attacks).
However, this time it's actually bothering me.
First off, I don't think there is any One Blog that people seem to migrate to. I know at one point there were a lot of new Insane Journals (I have one), but I've only reconnected with a small fraction of my flist there. Then came Dreamwidth - I believe my flist there is maybe six people?
I like the people on my flist, that's why they're on my flist. I enjoy reading their posts and hearing about lives or fandom craziness or crafts or stories or whatnot. I don't want to lose that because then I'll be stuck listening to my husband talk about his day at work and since most of what he does is classified and I do not have clearance... You can imagine how short those conversations are. "How was work?" "I did things. Then there was lunch. I ate a sandwich in the car. Then I did more things. Now I'm home." "Lovely. I'm just going to put my headphones on and ignore you now, kay?"
So, where - if anywhere - have you guys backed up your personal blogs or whatnot to? If LJ does go down permanently, where should I have already made an account and set up temp. housekeeping? Or, is LJ dying a sign that it is time to give up blogging in general?
Secondly, I have spent minutes slaving over a fic journal here on LJ (and its mirror on IJ) so that I could have all my publicly viewable stories in one place. I've got most - but not all, as I discovered this morning - of my fic on Digital Quill (thank you, SLogic), but not all of my stuff is eligible for posting on Ashwinder and I'm just not fond of using the WIKTT Archives.
Digital Quill is willing to take all of my submissions, with no size minimum or limits on specific pairings, so that is my non-blog go to choice, but I know that it doesn't get nearly the traffic a larger site like Ashwinder/Sycophant Hex receives, and without a blog to pimp a new story... You can see where this is going.
Also, without LJ I'll miss a lot of new fic recs. I find new things to read on the HGSS_Digest and love draughts. Not to mention all of the gifts from the exchanges.
And now I've made myself a sad panda.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid. I hope I'm just being paranoid. I don't want to see LJ die, because it would mean leaving behind people and things I'm not ready to walk away from.
However, this time it's actually bothering me.
First off, I don't think there is any One Blog that people seem to migrate to. I know at one point there were a lot of new Insane Journals (I have one), but I've only reconnected with a small fraction of my flist there. Then came Dreamwidth - I believe my flist there is maybe six people?
I like the people on my flist, that's why they're on my flist. I enjoy reading their posts and hearing about lives or fandom craziness or crafts or stories or whatnot. I don't want to lose that because then I'll be stuck listening to my husband talk about his day at work and since most of what he does is classified and I do not have clearance... You can imagine how short those conversations are. "How was work?" "I did things. Then there was lunch. I ate a sandwich in the car. Then I did more things. Now I'm home." "Lovely. I'm just going to put my headphones on and ignore you now, kay?"
So, where - if anywhere - have you guys backed up your personal blogs or whatnot to? If LJ does go down permanently, where should I have already made an account and set up temp. housekeeping? Or, is LJ dying a sign that it is time to give up blogging in general?
Secondly, I have spent minutes slaving over a fic journal here on LJ (and its mirror on IJ) so that I could have all my publicly viewable stories in one place. I've got most - but not all, as I discovered this morning - of my fic on Digital Quill (thank you, SLogic), but not all of my stuff is eligible for posting on Ashwinder and I'm just not fond of using the WIKTT Archives.
Digital Quill is willing to take all of my submissions, with no size minimum or limits on specific pairings, so that is my non-blog go to choice, but I know that it doesn't get nearly the traffic a larger site like Ashwinder/Sycophant Hex receives, and without a blog to pimp a new story... You can see where this is going.
Also, without LJ I'll miss a lot of new fic recs. I find new things to read on the HGSS_Digest and love draughts. Not to mention all of the gifts from the exchanges.
And now I've made myself a sad panda.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid. I hope I'm just being paranoid. I don't want to see LJ die, because it would mean leaving behind people and things I'm not ready to walk away from.