LJ downtime

[lady_karelia]

Now that the abomination that is livejournal these days has returned, I can actually post. And in the meantime, I've forgotten all about what I was going to post. *snerk*

I have until December before renewing the paid account, and I'm seriously wanting out of here. The only thing that keeps me right here is fandom, but I can see it diminishing further and further, seeing how the holier-than-though sixapart are hypocritical in purging communities. They say one thing, then do something else entirely. I find that rather off-pissing.

I know there is greatestjournal and insanejournal, but I just don't find them so enticing. And myspace? Oh, forget about it. Not interested in pr0n, and that seems to be all you get over there.

Any chance the fandom can get together, unite like the Houses of Hogwarts never did, and buy out LJ?

Comments

[sbrande.livejournal.com]

Any chance the fandom can get together, unite like the Houses of Hogwarts never did, and buy out LJ?

I'm right behind you babe on that one. The stupid thing has been down all day and I know I had something important to say as well however, now I have forgotten and am terribly busy besides.

DAMN you LJ... I hate Myspace et ctec... I'll be sticking with LJ, for now.

Love Sonia :)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I'm having sirius problems with their TOC... So hypocritical... So, a simple power cut makes me think it isn't just that...

I'm sticking to it, too. For now. Am looking at alternatives, though. I don't like the idea of being censored.

[atlantel.livejournal.com]

I don't think there will be other places than LJ... I think it's LJ or nothing, because people don't like change and if they are forced to leave, they might not go somewhere else.

But LJ getting worse is the main reason why I didn't buy a permanent account, (7 years on LJ, I'm not sure at all!!!) but I also know I did renew my paid account two months earlier because the Dollar has been so weak that I saved a few euros!!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I hope it's not a matter of LJ or nothing. People may not like change, but fandom is important to a lot of people, and if we can't voice our thoughts here, then we may want to change in order to be able to do so.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

I love your icon!

I cannot abide by myspace. it is designed to repel people over 40. I can't read it and it is way nto noisy in terms of audibles and visuals. Most of the posters know zilch on human factors engineering- e.g. white text on whot backgrounds.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

The icon is an open, free to take from Pearle. :-)

I, too, don't like myspace. And I thought the same as you - it repels people over 40. But I know enough youngsters who hate it, too.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Oh LJ would go down before Six Apart bought them. I remember one time it was a whole weekend...lol.

I have had my LJ for almost 3 years now and I doubt I will ever leave. I do have a Greatest Journal but all of my peeps are here.....and I don't know about fandom diminishing to the point it is no longer here....I think it will shrink at some point but in the next year if anything it might grow a bit and then even out for a while.

<3333

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree, it used to go down before 6A bought them. Only for different reasons. I have problems with 6A censoring stuff, and in a hypocritical way, no less. They've become too pc for my liking... But then, I'll probably stay here until more of the fandom moves elsewhere, too.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Well I have a Greatest Journal and I am slowly getting friends over there so if you jump there be sure to friend me darling!!

[lux-astraea.livejournal.com]

*checks purse*

Hmm, I have about £5 I can donate the the good idea that is fandom buying out LJ. LOL.
I can go without the Diet Coke I was going to go buy later on. :)

Apparently it was a 'power outage' that caused the problem... but have they never heard of backup supplies? Makes me think there was more to it.

(Oh, btw - laptop decided to turn itself off last night and I got narked at it so went to bed. I wasn't just ignoring you >.<'')

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! We now have a fiver to start a new fandom livejournal, LOL. :-)

Power outage, yes, indeed. People walking to their death like sheep *snerk*

No worries. :-) I was writing and hardly noticed, sorry!