Today's Lj post: Migrating to Dreamwidth and the Four Horseman of Livejournal
My post from Livejournal about the coming Blogpocalypse
So, like about 90% of my active Livejournal friends I started a Dreamwidth account. I've already have a decent Dreamwidth friends list, made up entirely of Livejournalers. A few LJers were already there, but a great deal of them have started their DW journals because of all of LJ's problems as of late.
Apparently LJ had a glitch earlier this morning which I missed. I only know of it because someone over on Dreamwidth wrote a short rant about it.
With every Livejournal server outage comes the doomsayers, saying the end of Livejournal is near. I was one of the eyerollers to these sandwhich-boarded prognosticators. But now LJ's problems are happening with such frequency and duration that it seems as if, this time, maybe Livejournal has hit the iceberg. Perhaps we are all on a sinking ship. If technical difficulties don't bring it to a halt, then incompetent adminstrators will cause it to crumble into oblivion.
Even if it rights itself and continues on, the effects of all this are showing. My friends list is getting less and less active every day. No doubt because people are having trouble posting. I tried to post to my German journal![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
superigel a few times this week and could not because of technical difficulties. I also imagine people are just getting frustrated with LJ, and I suspect some have just simply given up.
I don't want LJ to go away. A few have shrugged and said "Who cares? Just go to another blogging site." But I have nearly nine years worth of LJ entries here. I've documented the passing of loved ones, the triumphs and tribulations of work and school, each and every one of my marathons and all my trips to Europe in the last five years, and my personal struggles and various torrid romances. (All of my LJ entries for this entire time have been backed up, FYI!)
Anyone who's been my LJ friend long enough could have a good go at me in a game of "I never". I don't want LJ to sink away, and maybe it won't. But when you see a lot of your friends jumping over the railing and into Dreamwidth lifeboats, it's hard to stay positive.
Me at Dreamwidth:
http://jephmat.dreamwidth.org/
Also requested some invite codes in case anyone else wants to migrate over.
http://jvmatucha.livejournal.com/437149.html
So, like about 90% of my active Livejournal friends I started a Dreamwidth account. I've already have a decent Dreamwidth friends list, made up entirely of Livejournalers. A few LJers were already there, but a great deal of them have started their DW journals because of all of LJ's problems as of late.
Apparently LJ had a glitch earlier this morning which I missed. I only know of it because someone over on Dreamwidth wrote a short rant about it.
With every Livejournal server outage comes the doomsayers, saying the end of Livejournal is near. I was one of the eyerollers to these sandwhich-boarded prognosticators. But now LJ's problems are happening with such frequency and duration that it seems as if, this time, maybe Livejournal has hit the iceberg. Perhaps we are all on a sinking ship. If technical difficulties don't bring it to a halt, then incompetent adminstrators will cause it to crumble into oblivion.
Even if it rights itself and continues on, the effects of all this are showing. My friends list is getting less and less active every day. No doubt because people are having trouble posting. I tried to post to my German journal
superigel a few times this week and could not because of technical difficulties. I also imagine people are just getting frustrated with LJ, and I suspect some have just simply given up.I don't want LJ to go away. A few have shrugged and said "Who cares? Just go to another blogging site." But I have nearly nine years worth of LJ entries here. I've documented the passing of loved ones, the triumphs and tribulations of work and school, each and every one of my marathons and all my trips to Europe in the last five years, and my personal struggles and various torrid romances. (All of my LJ entries for this entire time have been backed up, FYI!)
Anyone who's been my LJ friend long enough could have a good go at me in a game of "I never". I don't want LJ to sink away, and maybe it won't. But when you see a lot of your friends jumping over the railing and into Dreamwidth lifeboats, it's hard to stay positive.
Me at Dreamwidth:
http://jephmat.dreamwidth.org/
Also requested some invite codes in case anyone else wants to migrate over.
http://jvmatucha.livejournal.com/437149.html
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