Comments | artists_beware: UPDATE: Artists Beware Closing Date

oceandezignz in artists_beware

UPDATE: Artists Beware Closing Date

Jan 09, 2019 18:58

Howdy guys!

The time has come to say "Goodbye" to Artists Beware on LiveJournal. When Cel opened the website for people to look at you all jumped in with gusto using it! This is great!

Artists Beware will be turning off on LJ on January 31st, 2019.

What does this mean for you? It means that you should get over to artistsbeware.info asap to sign ( Read more... )

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bornesb January 10 2019, 03:00:17 UTC

Holy crap that is so soon! I thought we had a little more time...

jamesalesto January 10 2019, 03:15:52 UTC

Now you know why I've been harassing you on discord so much ahahahaha

dinogrrl January 10 2019, 03:05:53 UTC

Got to sign up on the new site, I keep forgetting! It's been real, LJ folks! See you around!

(Jan 31st 2019? :p happy new year!)

haru_totetsu January 10 2019, 04:14:52 UTC

I think the only thing that worries me is that this live journal community & the DreamWidth mirror will start to be ignored and the old bewares that made people treat artists with caution (even those marked as resolved) will not get that warning as easily and thus people start to get tricked by those artists again, if their bewares aren't transitioned over.

Which brings me onto a question; how far back are the transitions going?

jamesalesto January 10 2019, 04:23:49 UTC

We are archiving every valid beware, and there is a separate section for archives on the site. :) Tags from the archives will still appear in thr search results.

oceandezignz January 10 2019, 04:26:07 UTC

Well that was going to occur when we moved regardless in a sense. And Google picks up quite a few of these LiveJournal posts so in a way they're not going to die unless those who have bewares trump the rankings system for Google.

We're going back as far as we need to that follows the current template or is a big time beware. The further back you go the more we saw really wacky posts that older staff (me included we perfected our submissions guidelines, still are really) accepted and they don't have a place in the new site.

The closer to 2018 we get the more posts from LJ will be ported over as these are better written, etc.

haru_totetsu January 15 2019, 01:33:24 UTC

Thank you, for the response.

Would it help if I offered to resubmit the beware I posted here: https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/968610.html
onto the site myself or would it be best to leave that to the staff, to determine if you'd like to keep it or not?

I only ask, because I plan to delete my Live Journal account once you guys have finished with the move and I'm unsure what that might do to the Beware I'd submitted.

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feather_dancer January 10 2019, 10:01:19 UTC

Just popping in and trying to remember my livejournal account in because, that artwork is ADORABLE. What a lovely way to do a send off for here.

oceandezignz January 12 2019, 05:11:22 UTC

Awwww thank you! You'll see more of this widdle alpaca on the new site very soon!

fix_the_spade January 10 2019, 20:23:54 UTC

AB is literally the last active feed on my Livejournal, this happening feels like the end of an era.

See you on the new site :)