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