"Darling you gotta let me know \\ Should I stay or should I go?"

[cetan]

My paid status on LiveJournal expires in 8 days. Ever since the infamous Duck Howling incident, I've been working on/slacking on a wordpress blog install for my bernhard.us domain with the idea that I would abandon LJ. (This also goes along with a plan to consolidate domains and unify my online presence

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[schmuckythecat]

I'm extremely interested in your answer to this, as my paid account expires in about a month. The abuse staff issue still bugs me ("people like you are what make lj bad for everyone else.")

The interlinking of the friends page with comments and clickable users - the whole thing is like glue. Getting the people that read your LJ to read some other blog, even if they can add the RSS feed to their friends list, is impossible. Inertia, inconvenience, whatever. And of course, even with a trackback feature, LJ comments to an RSS feed don't feed back to the RSS published entry. Everyone is too lazy to make the two way communication work.

[cetan]

Inertia. That's the word I was looking for. :)

Still pondering...

[nugget]

Against my geekier judgement, I've decided in favor of sticking with LiveJournal. The value of getting user comments for everyone and being able to do friends-only posts is more than enough to look past the significant downsides of using LiveJournal.

We're all just trapped. :)

[decibel45]

Why we need http://distjournal.com

[kookamess]

I know I should know...but why exactly was the LJ Abuse team mad at you. It never made sense to me what you did "wrong."

[cetan]

According to them, using any persons full name in a post (not limited to LJ users) is a violation of that persons privacy.

Any person. They can have a website with their full name all over it, but if I post about it here, and include their name, I'm violating their "rights to privacy."