So much for that

Aug 08, 2011 14:18

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 ( Read more... )

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greatbearmd August 10 2011, 19:41:51 UTC
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.

My "home" is here on LJ. But it has increasingly become ghettoized, with Cyrillic graffiti painted on the walls, broken windows, and a constant need to dodge Molotov cocktails in old Stoli bottles in my way home. I remain a vigilant fighter, but it IS disheartening. I can't do Fecebook, there is just too much of a corporate presence hovering over too light content compared to LJ. FB encourages abbreviated content. Twitter even more so. Both have their uses, but not by me. LJ is like a cafe bookstore where friends meet and pore over details. FB is McDonalds, a noisy place where you consume bits of nutrient-light content and get the hell out as soon as possible, yet the billboards for the place are at every exit on the highway. Twitter is at best a relay race.

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tonethbone August 10 2011, 20:30:20 UTC
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,

Here is where we have a different viewpoint.

First...I dont believe in chasing anyone...to another site.

And second...I question people who say they are leaving because of a service outage. Unless you and I are getting completely different service...the service outages are few, on an annual basis...highly publicized..but few...I stick by my 99 percent of the time reliability.,

Anyone who truly loves to blog, doesn't just leave because of the few and far between service outages...I see that as a convenient cop out. And when I look at the people who DO leave..it is very often people who have not posted much recently. Or they are angry about something completely unrelated to LJ. I chalk it up to their being busy..or other pressures in their life..or simply getting tired of blogging. All off this is OK...its a free country. Someone tells me "I am leaving because I dont have time" or "I am bored of blogging..I want to try something different:...Yes I can respect that.

But...to blame leaving on a service outage...I don't see this is the truth in many of the cases I hear about. The people who truly like to write and interact are NOT leaving...they put up with the few outages...As for those who leave...there is usually an outside thing going on in their life...like the job/health/boredom etc things that I meantioned earlier.. that's been my experience

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greatbearmd August 10 2011, 21:09:45 UTC
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.

So please don't infer that I am copping out by complaining of service issues. While I won't chase down people as they leap to the latest service du jour, I will sometimes make a presence there as a last resort to at least keep in contact.

I have a lot invested here, and I like to make sure I have a way for it to continue.

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tonethbone August 10 2011, 21:24:04 UTC
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

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greatbearmd August 11 2011, 00:16:10 UTC
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.

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