Man the lifeboats

[sigma7]

God, LJ has become a massive wad of suck. I get more spam comments about uggs than I do anything else, and I don't know what's happened to the American LJ staff but all of my support calls go to a deep-voiced man named "Peggy."

Am backing up everything, because if there were a ten-point list on "things that happen before your Internet-based company goes belly-up," LJ's chalked at least nine of them, several of them twice. You can find me more reliably over at Tumblr or Twitter for those who know me just a little bit. Not sure how picspam will materialize. Might just queue-dump it gradually. Might find its way back to LJ if it's still standing next year, but I don't think it will be. This is more of a "contingencies-in-place-and-prepared" than a "screw-you-guys-I'm-goin'-hoam" sorta post, but I get so much more noise than signal from LJ anymore that the returns may have just diminished irrevocably.

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[missroserose]

I've seen a number of posts like this recently, and I'm feeling a little out-of-the-loop - I don't really follow communities or LJ news. I heard something about LJ firing all their American workers; what else is on that list?

(Trying out DW for a bit. Backups never hurt, and auto-crossposting FTW.)

[sigma7]

Having been on the receiving ends of more than a few Internet social/service providers evaporating, LJ seems to be marching through the symptoms like a checklist (the US staff firing being the most recent). They seem to have such an established Cyrillic service that I'd be surprised if they disappeared completely overnight, but...I've been wrong before.

Sad thing is while LJ has dropped the ball more than once in PR and fanbase relations, Dreamwidth is pretty much a ghost town. I do crosspost, but I still use LJ as my feed aggregator because I'm just too lazy to port everything over to Google Reader (and there's still the matter of f-locked entries that don't seem to have a equivalent elsewhere), and I keep forgetting DW exists. But at least I don't get two or three Ugg spams a day from Dreamwidth.

I've been hanging out on Twitter moar just because it seems to have a social mass that even LJ lacks anymore. And I will leap into a woodchipper before I venture onto Facebook under anything resembling a real name again.

[missroserose]

*laughs* I've actually been sort of sorry that you haven't been on FB, since that's where a lot of my shorter thoughts go these days. But if you do sign up again under a non-real name (they do have fairly locked-down privacy settings these days), add me, nu?