Comments | greatbearmd: So much for that

greatbearmd

So much for that

Aug 08, 2011 14:18

Well, it appears that LJ is mostly operational, but not without isolated issues. Like eating the long post that I had written a few minutes ago. Ah well, I guess I have to kick the crust off my DW account and use it as a primary, with a crosspost to this place. No wonder I am really soured on blogging and social media in general, it's unreliable ( Read more... )

social networking, fail, social media, lj issues

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tonethbone August 9 2011, 02:54:53 UTC

Are you sure this ( your souring about blogging) is all about LJ reliability?
I say this because for me...over the course of an entire year ...LJ.works over 99 percent of the time...and it has a better track overall record than Facebook in terms of user consternation
...and the times that it IS having issues,,are not enough for me to consider abandoning 8 years of blogging and over two hundred friends. I am not ready to throw that away so easily. Besides there are no good alternatives to LJ for me.

I got pretty much the same feedback from others...from a post I wrote last week about this ( we're staying).

Sorry it's not working for you.

greatbearmd August 10 2011, 19:41:51 UTC

Mostly, it is aabout the reliability. As my luck tends to have it, at least half the time I want to actually use LJ to post, it does not work, or something goes wrong. Of course, things seem to go wrong mostly when I want to make a "serious" post, where fluff sails through. I really don't want to "leave" LJ at all, but I'd like to somehow have a backup in case things go terribly wrong. With "state actors" bombarding LJ with hopes of permanently taking down the service, the future of LJ is not so rosy anymore. I absolutely love the connections and friends I have here, and would hate to see it gone. Problem is, chunks of people leave LJ every time there is an extended problem, leaving me with fewer and fewer friends. I have to go chasing them to myriad other services, and I've already reached a maximum of "social outlets" on the internet that I can handle. Now there is Google+, and that has become another siphoning point for people ( ... )

tonethbone August 10 2011, 20:30:20 UTC

Re; Problem is, chunks of people leave LJ every time there is an extended problem, leaving me with fewer and fewer friends. I have to go chasing them to myriad other services ( ... )

greatbearmd August 10 2011, 21:09:45 UTC

I am not one of those "active" bloggers that posts daily, or more. This is a side thing I partake in when time allows and when I feel I have something to share. However, those time I do want to post have far less than a 99% uptime, for whatever reason. Even without Russky attacks, I've had posts vanish, when I retry the post via the web form (it asks if I want to restore from draft), I am presented with my PREVIOUS entry instead. Not a big deal if my post is a paragraph or less, but one with a lot of words and HTML (like the one following this post) takes a lot to recreate if I was dumb enough not to copy my entire text and keep it locally until success. I often do perform this safety net action, but I can kick myself when I haven't and as a result I don't bother completing the post after all ( ... )

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