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I had forgotten that I had returned to my old tweety blog before this LJ blackout. I was trying to figure how long LJ has been broken, and I thought it coincided with my return to my tweety blog, but I then vaguely recalled that I have been busy on it for weeks. LJ couldn’t have been out that long, could it?
And the answer is no, it wasn’t out that long. LJ started going down for the count last Sunday night, which is plenty long enough for the social network world and could be a death sentence, especially since one has to expect that there will be more of these attacks in the future, assuming we even get over this one.
Checking my tweety archives, I see that I went back because I had grown tired of journaling with pen and paper. My squeaky blog was already being used as a kind of storage and prep center, so that I didn’t want to crowd it with my scribble blogging as well. I did not want to open up an account at yet another site. And, well, Mr. C. has taken care of the virus problem on the old site and the site does run fast, and sentiment sealed the deal.
Though, let’s understand each other, I rather expect that these LJ-type sites are doomed to go the way of the dinosaur as an early, primitive form of social networking. And by continuing to blog on them, I am prepared to have my heart smashed into bloody pieces. The odds aren’t bad that one day this tweety blog will go the way of GreatestJournal and will just disappear from the Internet. As for LiveJournal, the original and greatest of these sites, well, we see how it is going, right? LJ seems likely to die in the frozen wasteland of benighted Russia. All my years of blogging, these many thousands of posts, will be lost in the void.
In that event of extinction, if I still have some blogging life left in me, I may give WordPress or some other vehicle a shot and start over, but I don’t feel it in me now. I don’t try new things easily.
And the answer is no, it wasn’t out that long. LJ started going down for the count last Sunday night, which is plenty long enough for the social network world and could be a death sentence, especially since one has to expect that there will be more of these attacks in the future, assuming we even get over this one.
Checking my tweety archives, I see that I went back because I had grown tired of journaling with pen and paper. My squeaky blog was already being used as a kind of storage and prep center, so that I didn’t want to crowd it with my scribble blogging as well. I did not want to open up an account at yet another site. And, well, Mr. C. has taken care of the virus problem on the old site and the site does run fast, and sentiment sealed the deal.
Though, let’s understand each other, I rather expect that these LJ-type sites are doomed to go the way of the dinosaur as an early, primitive form of social networking. And by continuing to blog on them, I am prepared to have my heart smashed into bloody pieces. The odds aren’t bad that one day this tweety blog will go the way of GreatestJournal and will just disappear from the Internet. As for LiveJournal, the original and greatest of these sites, well, we see how it is going, right? LJ seems likely to die in the frozen wasteland of benighted Russia. All my years of blogging, these many thousands of posts, will be lost in the void.
In that event of extinction, if I still have some blogging life left in me, I may give WordPress or some other vehicle a shot and start over, but I don’t feel it in me now. I don’t try new things easily.
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Date: 2011-07-30 11:28 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2011-07-30 08:40 pm (UTC)From:If you have some of those codes left, do you mind holding one for me to get later? Given LJ's ongoing loopiness, I imagine it would be best to hold off such a major operation until LJ is running at 100%.
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