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[chronicfreetime]

Wow, LJ is really rotting. I've found at least two bugs in it today.

I guess this shouldn't surprise me, given that I knew brad and evan had moved on to Google Buzz, Twitter, etc. Still, it's very sad

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[ashliana]

Oh no, old journal entries are decaying? I need to make sure I have this stuff archived. Pretty sure I do, up to maybe a year or so ago, but better to be safe. LJ is definitely going down the tubes.

[chronicfreetime]

Not the raw text, no. (Although there are many places I left comments in other journals which I can no longer access, which is a little annoying.) However, there are dead links in my journal with little context. (And most of the embedded images are broken, but that's my own fault.)

The most generous estimate I've seen for the half-life of a URL is ten years (in "The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine"), and in my personal corpus, things were much worse (e.g. I often mailed recent news articles to friends with little or no preamble). Maybe something like Lifestreams is in order.

[nancyblue]

Holy crap, it's you! And I owe you an e-mail.

[mopalia]

Nice to see you alive and well - happy belated 30th.

[chronicfreetime]

Thanks :)