So much for that

[greatbearmd]

Well, it appears that LJ is mostly operational, but not without isolated issues. Like eating the long post that I had written a few minutes ago. Ah well, I guess I have to kick the crust off my DW account and use it as a primary, with a crosspost to this place. No wonder I am really soured on blogging and social media in general, it's unreliable

Comments

[tonethbone]

Are you sure this ( your souring about blogging) is all about LJ reliability?
I say this because for me...over the course of an entire year ...LJ.works over 99 percent of the time...and it has a better track overall record than Facebook in terms of user consternation
...and the times that it IS having issues,,are not enough for me to consider abandoning 8 years of blogging and over two hundred friends. I am not ready to throw that away so easily. Besides there are no good alternatives to LJ for me.

I got pretty much the same feedback from others...from a post I wrote last week about this ( we're staying).

Sorry it's not working for you.

[greatbearmd]

Mostly, it is aabout the reliability. As my luck tends to have it, at least half the time I want to actually use LJ to post, it does not work, or something goes wrong. Of course, things seem to go wrong mostly when I want to make a "serious" post, where fluff sails through. I really don't want to "leave" LJ at all, but I'd like to somehow have a backup in case things go terribly wrong. With "state actors" bombarding LJ with hopes of permanently taking down the service, the future of LJ is not so rosy anymore. I absolutely love the connections and friends I have here, and would hate to see it gone. Problem is, chunks of people leave LJ every time there is an extended problem, leaving me with fewer and fewer friends. I have to go chasing them to myriad other services, and I've already reached a maximum of "social outlets" on the internet that I can handle. Now there is Google+, and that has become another siphoning point for people

[tonethbone]

Re; Problem is, chunks of people leave LJ every time there is an extended problem, leaving me with fewer and fewer friends. I have to go chasing them to myriad other services

[greatbearmd]

I am not one of those "active" bloggers that posts daily, or more. This is a side thing I partake in when time allows and when I feel I have something to share. However, those time I do want to post have far less than a 99% uptime, for whatever reason. Even without Russky attacks, I've had posts vanish, when I retry the post via the web form (it asks if I want to restore from draft), I am presented with my PREVIOUS entry instead. Not a big deal if my post is a paragraph or less, but one with a lot of words and HTML (like the one following this post) takes a lot to recreate if I was dumb enough not to copy my entire text and keep it locally until success. I often do perform this safety net action, but I can kick myself when I haven't and as a result I don't bother completing the post after all

[tonethbone]

Ok so you are not copping out. I wish that were true with a lot who leave or have left because of "the service.".

Through my ( prejudiced) eyes..if one really loves to blog...and enjoys the interactions with his current circle of friends...I am puzzled why they would leave over that alone.

But..that my view. Yours may vary

[greatbearmd]

Ideally, I'd like to blog from one place and have my entries show up everywhere. Sadly that is not entirely possible. I can crosspost from Dreamwidth, for example, but that won't show up in G+ or FB. Then there is those who have their tweets blasted into LJ daily, but that is just so much bird shit, fly in, drop a load, and that's it. No one ever interacts with those sorts of entries, and all it does is blast the LJ audience with disconnected and often pointless information meant for an entirely different audience. Spam.

I find it frustrating that too many people have already jumped ship, service interruptions or whatever, and took their otherwise insightful posts to another service where they aren't fully utilized. And there will always be those who follow the herd for the latest and greatest fad.