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.
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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.