I have no idea ;__; I saw this link one hour ago and I'm so worried. And anxious. And sad. LJ isn't perfect, but it's the best of the social networks I know. IJ is too small and only a few people I know use GJ. I hope that something so important for so many people can't simply disappear. ...I hope (what else could I do?)
I'm going to mirror site at IJ for the time being. It's the com archives that worry me. a lot of people post directly into communities and that could all get lost.
Right new few other blogging networks have the backbone to support the mass of users LJ has. I have an Insane Journal but that network nearly broke last time there was a rush to it. Blogspot/Wordpress.com/etc. don't seem very friendly to fandom.
I've preached for a while not to put all of our eggs into one blog basket (why I approve of redunancy, such as archives and personal web sites), and this only reinforces that. But the solution? I don't know. I'm looking, but I don't know. *sighhhh*
I've been looking at IJ and they have just posted up on their main page that they're willing to take in the LJ refugies and are fan fic friendly. It's all the same code so I might at least do a mirror site over there.
Yeah, I liked the fact that it is the same code as well. But really, when the last influx came in after the big LJ strike in the fall, IJ's servers were struggling hard.
The SixApart folk have VOX -- given that they were the original creators of LJ, I suspect they are fandom friendly but I can't really tell. The TOS is pretty standard, but I note steers far from even mentioning copyright issues, instead going for the 'if it is illegal in your state/country/etc. don't post it here' type of thing.
Dunno. I hate the extra work but I really DO NOT trust LJ, and have not for a while. One reason I let my paid account expire on my personal LJ site several years ago. Someone gifted me a paid site for Mikes_grrl but I would never buy it for myself.
I've got most of my own stuff backed up with the exception of a few drabbles but I'll go through and do a mass backup. I'll back up my two coms as well. probably as big ugly text files but at least they'll be somewhere.
I have railed about the fact so many newer fandoms don't have the archives like The Good Old Days. And people don't post to WWOMB or even adult/fanfiction.net Very sad to think something terrible could take out all those fics. Of course, I obsessively save ALL my favorites off line. Think about it, if something catastrophic happened when they moved the servers to Montana, all would have been lost then. I worry more about that than LJ closing shop
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I used to post to wwomb and ff.net but then they got weird and sucked and my stuff never came up and there were trolls and it just put me off completely. I even stopped writing for a bit. I think I'll mirror my stuff somewhere and archive my coms and favorite stuff then just hope for the best.
aghhh I've just seen this. What are we going to do? Move whole communities over to another site like IJ? I mean, Lifein1973 has the collator's den as an archive but no one posts comments there it's just literally a collators den. Meanwhile, I've got everything saved offline. I just don't like the idea of losing my writing communities. I need my fanfic to get through the day. BAd things happen when I don't have escapism, students fail, department heads die painfully.
believe me I know the feeling. This could just be mindless panic but I am back my stuff up. If lj does go down I'll see where most of my flist seems to land, ij or vox or something then clone my two coms there.
IJ is just the old open source code for livejournal. It even has most of the same little icons. vox looks way more flash. This might just be panic but back up your fics and your favorites.
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I hope that something so important for so many people can't simply disappear.
...I hope (what else could I do?)
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I've preached for a while not to put all of our eggs into one blog basket (why I approve of redunancy, such as archives and personal web sites), and this only reinforces that. But the solution? I don't know. I'm looking, but I don't know. *sighhhh*
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The SixApart folk have VOX -- given that they were the original creators of LJ, I suspect they are fandom friendly but I can't really tell. The TOS is pretty standard, but I note steers far from even mentioning copyright issues, instead going for the 'if it is illegal in your state/country/etc. don't post it here' type of thing.
Dunno. I hate the extra work but I really DO NOT trust LJ, and have not for a while. One reason I let my paid account expire on my personal LJ site several years ago. Someone gifted me a paid site for Mikes_grrl but I would never buy it for myself.
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Also I back up'ed my journal with these two great things:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/%22
http://www.ljbook.com/ljbook.html
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