Not going to Dreamwidth

[scarfman]

If the people I migrated to LJ for mostly leave LJ in the wake of the recent upgrades no one likes, I shall probably not move to Dreamwidth as most of them seem to be planning (or to already have done over the years in response to other last straws). In 2005 when Usenet was gasping, LJ seemed to be the place everyone was going; but then I didn't already have a second social network established, and Dreamwidth just doesn't inspire any emotional attraction. If LJ dies and I feel a need for somewhere I can use more'n 140 characters at once, perhaps I'll start actually using Google+ where I have family. Or I'll see whether scarfman is still available at Tumblr which includes image hosting. Or I may just use, you know, my own existing website.

I won't delete my LJ or anything. I'll probably keep mirroring Twitter, and may continue with rare entries (such as I've been doing lately ...). But I may stop paying for it. I wonder what that'd do to userpic selection in the archives.

Comments

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

I have no intention of leaving LJ. Bought a permanent account years ago and haven't minded the DDOS attacks (means the Russians on LJ are saying the right shit). Was a little sad awhile ago when the DDOS attacks meant that my feeds weren't getting through, but I set up an emergency feed reader if that happens again. So I'm good to go until the next catastrophe.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Ditto; I'm permanent. I don't know what people are talking about with the new default interface, since I haven't used the default in YEARS.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

That said, I'm a tad irked that they appear to have deprecated the old YouTube Embed Code, so all of my many many many video entires are now blank rectangles.

[billroper]

Gretchen and I have permanent accounts too, so we're here for the duration.

I did just send a backup of my journal over to Dreamwidth just in case Putin decides to shut things down.

[scarfman]

I backup each month's entries with the LJ tool for that. It doesn't preserve comments though, as Dreamwidth does (or can), which is attractive. That aspect does tempt me.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I'm doing occasional backups at DreamWidth, but I'm not actually moving over until/unless the Russians government actually manages to kill the site completely. This is too important a fight not not support in this tiny little way.

[scarfman]

Yeah, part of the reason I'm not actively abandoning LJ is that issue.