Mod Post
Just a moment of seriousness here:
As I've said on my own journal, there has been a major employment hiccup at LJ, and this has caused a medium-scale panic among the LJ userbase. While I want to stress that it is highly unlikely that LJ will vanish into the ether, I would also like to encourage members to download ljArchive (link at my LJ) and back up their character journals. Not only will this leave us with a backup in the unlikely event of a disaster, it also means we get to read threads offline--which I think recommends the idea most of all. (I'd also love to share archived journals with other players.) Unfortunately, I can't back up the community using this service, but I'm currently exploring other options.
Should the absolutely unthinkable happen, and LJ goes down, I have created a mirror community on InsaneJournal--I can't transfer the posts and the comments there, but we will at least have a place to play. IJ and old-school LJ are almost identical, so the site should be relatively easy to navigate. While I don't explicitly encourage you to create new character journals on IJ, I can't see how it would hurt. Especially since even new users get 100 userpics. I had a backup on GreatestJournal, too, but their database is apparently fried.
So, long and short of it is--be aware, but don't panic. Exercise caution, back up your journal and your characters' journals, and take note of the IJ mirror, but don't freak out too badly. All's well.
As I've said on my own journal, there has been a major employment hiccup at LJ, and this has caused a medium-scale panic among the LJ userbase. While I want to stress that it is highly unlikely that LJ will vanish into the ether, I would also like to encourage members to download ljArchive (link at my LJ) and back up their character journals. Not only will this leave us with a backup in the unlikely event of a disaster, it also means we get to read threads offline--which I think recommends the idea most of all. (I'd also love to share archived journals with other players.) Unfortunately, I can't back up the community using this service, but I'm currently exploring other options.
Should the absolutely unthinkable happen, and LJ goes down, I have created a mirror community on InsaneJournal--I can't transfer the posts and the comments there, but we will at least have a place to play. IJ and old-school LJ are almost identical, so the site should be relatively easy to navigate. While I don't explicitly encourage you to create new character journals on IJ, I can't see how it would hurt. Especially since even new users get 100 userpics. I had a backup on GreatestJournal, too, but their database is apparently fried.
So, long and short of it is--be aware, but don't panic. Exercise caution, back up your journal and your characters' journals, and take note of the IJ mirror, but don't freak out too badly. All's well.