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[astridv]

Oh, looks like LJ is back up after it was down all morning. I'm gonna go through my profile and see if there aren't a couple more journals I can follow on DW instead.

An appeal to fic writers: please, crosspost your fic! At least to one other site. AO3, ffn, DW, anywhere not LJ... just so there's a backup.

I hate to say it because I've been on LJ for ages and had some good times here but I really feel that LJ is going down the drain. Definitely headed in a drain-adjacent direction, between the constant DDOS attacks and igrick sabotaging the site from within. (And you know, the more I think about it, the less sure I am that's just a crazy conspiracy theory, considering that the features that were broken on purpose were those that benefitted community building and discussion. And that apparently the Russian-language users aren't any happier with the changes than we are.)

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[sholio]

It just makes me really, really glad that I've got a backup (though I'm still annoyed that all my DW entries are doubled; it double-imported me after changing my username). Because, yeah, it seems like LJ's been down more than it's up lately, and they keep making changes their users hate; I figure it's only a matter of time before it becomes more trouble than it's worth to use the site at all. (Though it could still be usable and active for five or ten years, for all I know. It's not going away tomorrow. But it's certainly not going to get better, and it's quite likely to get worse.)

[astridv]

At least it's a slow decay and in the meantime DW had enough time to set up camp and be ready. Years ago it looked like fandom would just scatter in all directions if they were kicked out of LJ. I like how DW enables a smooth transition, with all the import and crosspost options.