LJ is being robust!

[smeddley]

But the timing, I'm sure, is freaking people out. It's like the circle of doom... people worry about a collapse (GreatestJournal finally called it quits for real, I heard) which causes them to backup like mad, which clogs the servers, which causes panic, which leads to more downtime, more panic, more clogging, more... well, I suppose you get the picture.

I took the downtime to create a Twitter.

*hangs head in shame*

I know, I know. But it's easy, and really, if LJ is going to get spotty, it's a great way to keep in touch. So, f-list, go get a Twitter and add me. I found a few of you out there, but I don't know if everyone has one and/or if people used a different name.

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[mmmontserrat.livejournal.com]

were you at blurty before?

yes i was just trying to email you privately...

and panic. read all the press and info on the sell-off to the new Russian company.

sounds like time to archive, back-up, etc...

i used to be better at doing this!

[mmmontserrat.livejournal.com]

do you use facebook?

i'm so addicted to that but I wouldn't blog there. blogging is more for my private surreal virtual life.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I do not use Facebook, for specifically the reason that it's not anonymous and private. Whatever I do has to be one or the other! I do have an insanejournal, though it has a bright, bright, BRIGHT user-interface.

I'm still optimistic LJ will pull through this just fine, however, I think it's prudent to have a backup plan!

[justcara.livejournal.com]

I was pretty shocked to read that yesterday. I read a couple LJ blogs, but I am totally pathologically addicted to ONTD. If LJ goes down and takes ONTD with it, I'm going to cry!

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I didn't even think about the ONTD crowd! Yeah, I'm pretty sure at least part of the universe would implode from the void left by that. And a lot of people might need counselling. But, hey, another site would pop up, like Fandom Wank when it was kicked off LJ.

[dynastic-queen.livejournal.com]

I've heard of Twitter, but I'm not sure exactly what you do with one...? (just too busy to investigate stuff!)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

It's... it's a blog of sorts, only... the entries are limited to 140 characters. But you have an f-list of a sort, so that's kinda cool.

[neville.livejournal.com]

if lj goes down i will not know what to do. facebook will probably eat my face, idk. i added you on twitter, im stonefox (:

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Added back!

I'm almost frightened of Facebook, partly because it's too closely tied to real identities and partly because I hear it sucks away huge hunks of time!

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

OMG. I have to say, I'm utterly shocked. Seriously shocked that YOU got a Twitter account.

I think I'm going to set up a Blogger page. I think I at least have all my LJ friends' email addresses so I won't lose anyone. But damn, I've got to get my journal archived, and I've got to get all the memories (mostly craft ideas and recipes) printed out. Those are the things I really don't want to lose.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I know, I should have put a health warning on this post, that those with weak hearts, etc, might want to skip it... ;)

I've been saving the pages of things I found interesting forever, so I don't really know if I have anything in memories or bookmarked that I don't have a saved copy of. I think I always worry that a page will go away (as they frequently do) so I just save them to my hard drive. Sadly, this does sometimes make credit hard (as you know, since that's how we met!) but it ensures I have a copy of the page!

I'm bookmarking everyone's alternate sites, too, just in case. Hopefully this will all blow over and it won't be a big deal, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Yeah, I've started to save pages I like as pdf files, but haven't gone back and done old ones.

I was definitely not panicking initially, until yesterday when it all went blank, and then I found out that a couple of other journal sites had gone completely under, that was really worrisome to find out.

Why can't it be Facebook going under instead???? Bleh.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Or MySpace. I'd be more than happy to see that shrivel up and die.

To be fair, GreatestJournal's been 'dead' for awhile now, it just didn't have the sense to fall down. And the other was such a little odd one, I've never even heard of it. I think LJ has way to many users to just up and go away like that. Someone will realize its potential, and though it may end up scaled back or stripped down, I think it'll survive awhile now.