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Like a couple of of you, I've created a shadow blog on Greatest Journal.

Let me just stress: My main Journal is remaining here on LJ. I am basically backing up my LJ entries to GreatestJournal since I don't trust SixApart as far as I can throw them.

Since GreatestJournal uses the exact same encoding as LJ, and since it is completely, 100% free of charge, it's nothing for me to basically cut-n-paste my entries — as well as memories I want to keep — from here to there.

I know quite a few people are starting to do it. If you have GreatestJournal account, you can clink on the link below to friend me on GreatestJournal:

Scibblings by Lizbeth on Greatest Journal

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I just made a Greatest Journal thingy, too. And friended you.

Friended you back.

I've worked too hard on this LJ to let it go poof.

While no one's suggesting LJ will go poof, the recent up-in-arms paranoia is a good excuse for me to set up a shadow blog.

OK, this makes me mad. (not you specifically, Liz -- I mean the issue in general, and what I see as people abandoning LJ for other sites such as Greatest Journal).

I paid for a permanent LJ account. I like the fact that my flist includes people ranging in age from 16 to almost 60. I don't want to go anywhere else, and I don't want my friends to go anywhere else. I want LJ to stay the way it is -- a diverse, multicultural, multigenerational community.

I'm seeing the beginnings of a lemming-like exodus, and it worries me. If people start abandoning LJ, what kind of message does that send?

Jumping to Greatest Journal or any other hosting site isn't going to solve the problems of LJ and SixApart; it's just going to dilute the LJ base, which might feed right into LJ/SixApart's plans. And who's to say that Greatest Journal might do the same thing in a year or two that LJ is doing now?

I'd rather see people stay with LJ and fight to keep it the way we like it.

I'm not jumping ship at all. :-)

Like I said, all I'm doing is mirroring what I have here (if even that much) just in case. I plan on sticking around and fighting for LJ because (and I'll be honest here) GJ strikes me as less stable than LJ since there is no paid option and the whole site is run by volunteers.

I'm only mirror there because it's free and I don't have to pay for it.

I was going to start mirroring on JournalFen (and no, that's not a terrific option either), but the GJ option came up. I figure it's not too likely I'll lose both if something goes wrong with one or the other.

This is strictly a CYA move on my part.

I know I can back up this journal through various programs, but it turns them into PDF files. Great for personal storage, not so great for online storage.

Thank you -- I appreciate the clarification and the reassurance. I'm still a tad uneasy, though -- you're one of 10-12 people on my flist who have opened or announced plans to open a GJ account in the last 2-3 days, and I suddenly started having visions of lemmings.

I've just composed a mini-rant about it... but I'll impose my 24-hour rule on myself before I post it.

Actually, I don't blame the mini-rant at all.

The issue for me is that every time SixApart goes for "reassurance" they seem to stick their foot deeper in it. All of their publicity seems to stress that LJ is primarily made up of teenagers and people in their early 20s. They finally getting stats showing that the mean age of their actual membership is shifted older than they thought by 5 to 10 years.

Yet...every time they do something on CNN or MSNBC, they're flogging the teenager angle. The CEO of SixApart just did it the other day.

People keep pointing out that there are other problems with LJ that could use tweaking, but we keep getting tweaks to things no one things is a big deal. There had to be an all-out pile-a-thon to get them to change the UserInfo page update.

I think what you're seeing are mostly older LJers who have actually paid for their service getting worried and most of them are just mirroring posts they don't want to take a chance on losing. I don't think we'll be forceably moved over to Vox by any means (I'm not as paranoid as some people on my Flist on that score), but I am getting frustrated with SixApart's attitude with users that seem to be outside of their target market, especially since we're the ones actually paying for LJ.

That's a good idea. Not that livejournal might blowup, but because you can never have enough mirrors.

Especialy when it comes to mirrors for fic. *nods*

Of course, I've witnessed a major contraction of the fic side of the fandom, so I'm just a bit parinoid on the matter. = )

The bonus is that GJ uses the exact same codes, so it literally is a matter of cutting and pasting the entries you don't want to lose.

As you already know, I've decided to be a copycat and start shadowing over there also. Something's coming. I'm 23 and therefore hovering at the edges of what is apparently LJ's target market, and I say the whole thing reeks.

Then again, I'm also enjoy a random, pointless project like backing up 800+ entries.

Sweet. What a great idea for backup if things go FUBAR. Not that I've been exactly big the on comments lately as its end of financial year suck-fest time here.

I've friended, now to find out who else is out there I know.

I have a GreatestJournal account too. I created it during the great Lj crahs of '05, along with a bunch of my flist. Just friended you on that journal too. I think it's a reasonable thing to do (mirroring, I mean). I hope LJ weathers this whatever it is, but it's good to have a backup place.
I'm midnightsjane2 over there, BTW.

I have been trying for days to get to and read part 43 and keep getting a 'you are not authorised to view this protected entry' message.

It IS supposed to be the next posting after this, right?

The entry is public and you should be able to see it.

You may need to empty your browser cache because there may be a cookie blocking you. I know I'm not at my end.

Part 43 is not the next posting after this one. In fact, there are several private entries (as in for my eyes only and not open to anyone else but me) between this post and Part 43.

Therefore, if you are using the arrows at the top of the entry to "page" through my journal, you've been effectively blocked from going from point A to point B.

Here is the direct link to Part 43 if you wish to read it: http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/191972.html

GOT IT.

Am i the only one with this problem? If not would posting a direct link to each new part be a problem/easy/impossible?

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