Got sucked into the wanky vortex that is Tumblr for a while there, as well as hermitizing in email (which was more fun and much less wanky) but I miss talking with people and having this wordy space I can carve out for myself and like-minded conversationalists ( Read more... )

Wow, I have to turn off the pingbacks on this post. I have gotten it least 40 of them in the past few hours regarding those spreading the word/signal boosting the true status and reasons for LiveJournal's downtime ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone thinks LJ's downtime is just TPTB being incompetant, read this:

LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion ( Read more... )

How much trouble will I be in when I say that I'm finding Dreamwidth to be an excellent compliment to my LJ? I can write up the entry here, effortlessly crosspost it to my LJ (it preserves the LJ lock default automatically without making me muck about with it) and use my reading list here (on DW) to scope things out without dealing with filters ( Read more... )