Comments | siderea: [lj] Evacuation Plans, Protest; Long, Read Anyway

siderea

[lj] Evacuation Plans, Protest; Long, Read Anyway

Mar 20, 2008 18:27

Summary

1) There is a protest planned tonight. In about 2 hrs (5pm, PDT == 8pm EDT), I'll be keeping radio silence on LJ for 24 hrs. If you want to reach me, email me.

2) There's plans afoot to start a new LJ clone. Come join us: elsejournal. Right now, it is the only journal platform which looks like a viable alternative for me, so I hope it happens, ( Read more... )

tech, lj

Comments 18

orlacarey March 20 2008, 22:44:51 UTC

Stupid question WP Is Not The Answer
What is WP? Maybe I missed it?

the_xtina March 20 2008, 22:52:14 UTC

Whipped Peas.

No! Wordpress.

the_xtina March 20 2008, 22:51:52 UTC

I'm actually kind of interested in ElseJournal, to my surprise. The other LJ clones I've seen don't have the same sort of vibe - I couldn't imagine myself moving to any one of them in seriousness. And I'm inordinately pleased by being able to say "ElseJ".

This would make more sense if I were less sick.

upstart_crow March 20 2008, 22:53:59 UTC

If Elsejournal takes off, I'm thinking I'll blog there and here. Thanks for bringing LJDist to my attention too.

cellio March 20 2008, 23:02:57 UTC

I'll explore that community later (have to leave for megillah reading soon), but I sure hope someone is thinking about migration path and not just platform. I'm not going to move overnight; I've got too much content and too many readers and read-ees. I will want an easy way to dual-post for a while (ideally aggregating comment threads in one place or the other), to read my LJ friends over there (including the filtered entries) in a way as easy as my LJ subscription list, and an easy way to feed from there to LJ for the many friends who wouldn't follow me there (including, again, the ACL support). That's a tall order, but it could be done, I imagine.

Anyway, I'll check it out later; thanks for the pointer.

merle_ March 20 2008, 23:32:16 UTC

My value to LJ as a customer is not that I have an account. It's that I write in it.

Definitely. That's why I veered away from chowhound.com when they first started begging for donations, then started charging people to go to events that users had set up, and finally sold themselves to C|Net: reviews of local restuarants gave them value. True, they provided the venue, and without them I would not have met a lot of people, but the content from users was the only reason they had national recognition.