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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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I think you're right about LJ - there's no long term future for fandom, there. Except for the fact that there are still a few cherished people on my flist who are LJ-only, I'd be gone completely now. My fundamental issue with LJ is simply that we (meaning, fandom) are not part of its target user group or strategy or whatever you want to call it -- we're just a little enclave to be ignored. While I'm not evangelistically pro-DW, the one major advantage it has over LJ now is that DW is *for* us in a way that LJ sadly no longer is.

Right. What I just don't get is why they don't so much seem to ignore us but actively try to drive us away. Pecunia non olet, one should think.