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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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Thank you for the link to Mananon's site! Looking at these numbers (the graph of LJ activity since 2000) is quite telling. I wasn't sure if there had been an actual, noticeable impact -- obviously fandom has decamped to DW in a major way, but it's always hard to tell if you're just judging things based on your own little corner. But, uh, yeah, their numbers are plummeting.