Over at GreatestJournal

[liz_marcs]

Look! I still have my GreatestJournal account.

I'm liz-marcs over there as well.

Dearest SixApart:


You drop dead, too.


Kthnxbi,

A Dissatisfied Customer

P.S. — I'm pre-paid for more than a year, so I'm not disappearing right away, just making arrangements for a permanent move to elsewhere, oh, a year from now.

Comments

[pewter-wings.livejournal.com]

You gone?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I, unfortunately, am pre-paid until July 2008...

However, I will be from now on double posting in LJ and GJ with an eye towards dumping LJ when my pre-paid time is up. I figure by then I'll have transfered all the contents here to GJ or some other blogging site.

Yes, I'm that furious.

[pewter-wings.livejournal.com]

I just joined there, mind if I friend you so I won't be all alone?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Sure. :-)

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

:D:D

People over there are talking to Support to find out what their stance on this is. There's brief discussion about it in the fandomtossed community.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I'm just prettying up my GJ.

I'm prepaid for the next 14 months, so I at least have time to decide what to do.

It's good that people are asking questions right up front.

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did mine last night. I'm debating tracking down the owner of huff_fics and seeing about making a mirror community on GJ.

One of my friends just paid for the next year a few days ago. She's REALLY unhappy about that. Mine runs out in August, I think.

Hopefully they'll be nice to us. I know they've had advertisements for longer than LJ has, and no paid accounts, but a huge chunk of their userbase is roleplaying journals.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

FYI: prepare for the digg effect (http://digg.com/tech_news/Livejournal_suspends_hundreds_of_accounts)

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Oi.

Yeah, I've been warned. Just how bad is it gonna get? I can't even hope to keep up now.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Don't even try. I've seen sites exceed their bandwidth within half an hour of making the front page and you're up to 250 diggs. It could get really bad. Really bad.

[vichan.livejournal.com]

*clings* What have we done?

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about this, too.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Well, right now there's some talks going on with GJ regarding the sitch.

As far as I'm concerned, it's good for a backup.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

*nod* I started backing up my journal on GJ when Six Apart came out with Vox. I think I'll pick up where I left off or somesuch.

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

I did the shadow journal there too, sunnyd_lite.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Just friended you back.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Mine expires in August. I'm backing up my journal tonight, and I'm thinking about what to do next.

I have a Greatest Journal (same name), but it's empty right now.

Truth is, I've never felt at home here, anyway.

[mortal-type.livejournal.com]

Oh, looks like we made the news: http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html?tag=nefd.lede

[phyr-nyt.livejournal.com]

*squeeks like a rat*
just finished makeing a GJ and friending you there. XD

[ever-obsessed.livejournal.com]

I'm setting up an account there as I speak, actually.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I'm paid until August. I have a GJ account as well (Sunfell) and have just grabbed my WordPress title, too. That'll be my pro-blog.

Hey, I want to say that I really appreciate your posts about this. Go read what one of my deep-diggers on [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] has discovered about dubyaeffaye:

http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/830650.html?mode=reply

Yeah- they're religious fanatics. I hope that Six Apart figures out that they've been totally 'jacked by a bunch of domestic terrorists in training.

[abbylee]

Looks like they are doing more investigation:

http://ataniell93.livejournal.com/818441.html?thread=7531785&format=light#t7531785

Azalais,

I received your message about these two journals. I will check the reason they were taken down tonight. If they were taken down incorrectly I will sincerely apologize.

It is possible that in a well meaning attempt to protect children some errors were made. It may take a day to get back to you but we will do it ASAP. Thank you for pointing out this issue and explaining your point of view so well.

Barak Berkowitz
CEO Six Apart

[abbylee]

Of course, apologize doesn't mean "unsuspend". But I'm still holding out hope.

[daniidebrabant.livejournal.com]

I'm non_timebo_mala over there. Have friended!

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

*sighs*

The number of people I know that are considering a move is going to give me a headache, I fear. Many people, like yourself, and the above noted quantum_gazebo are considering a move - people I follow avidly. That being said, half of my f'list isn't involved or even really aware of this - and will not be moving.

I use LJ, more than anything, for keeping in touch with friends, many of them dear, RL friends in other parts of the country. This means I'll need to be keeping up with two journal sites. I can't just dump LJ (an example - a friend whose wedding I was in, is not moving), but I can't just let half my friendslist wander off either.

This is a dilemma to say the least. Regardless, I should probably go see if I can snag my username over at GJ, in case of mass exodus.

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree...I'm going to end up with 3 different journals *sigh*

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

I renewed for a year in March. Crapity crap crap.

* heads over to check out GreatestJournal *

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

I'm diachrony over at GJ as well and I've added you. I'd like to keep my same f'list as much as possible. Hopefully GJ is userfriendly and nonbuggy enough to stick with (my understanding is it keeps losing folks' userpics, but I hope nothing worse than that).

[peppery-lime.livejournal.com]

i'm peppery_lime over on gj. thanks to that big, fat fuck you article, i'll be over there by the end of 2007, just in time for my time to expire. ~headdesk~

[red-xera.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I friended you over at GJ? You seem like a pretty nifty person.

Oh and before I forget, my GJ is steampunk_. Anyone here is welcome to friend me.

[cethlenn.livejournal.com]

I'm at GJ as cethlenn , feel free to friend....

Has this whole thing been slashdotted yet?

[tazeredtiger.livejournal.com]

I have the same username (tazeredtiger) at GJ, and I just added you if that's okay. Also added you here on LJ, to keep up with updates. I believe this whole thing is messed up.

[slycat-blaze.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm afraid I've only been updated today with the LJ issue, since I was away on vacation. Your site really helped with all that information, and I really am grateful. For the same reasons, I have also created a GJ account. LJ gives me the creeps now.

I have several accounts, so I find myself rarely updating my LJ (I use my Xanga account usually). And ever since I couldn't fix my LJ RSS feed to my other account (and therefore, felt conscious about posting with my RL friend's eyes watching, I just stopped updating altogether. But I was really fond of LJ, and will miss it greatly. Thanks for the GJ link! ^_^ (Can I add you there?)

I hope this issue will be resolved soon. ^_^

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I've created a mirror journal over there, and friended you there as well as here, which I should have done long ago. :) I don't know if I'll be making The Big Move or not, but it's always good to have a backup.

[cupcakemonster.livejournal.com]

I applaud you, and I'm doing the same. I'm gonna stick around for this 7-day-action business, and I might come back if they stop acting like the soul-less corporation they are.

I guess it's to be expected -- well, if I don't like it, I can leave, right?

[h4nselel.livejournal.com]

Well, the time really sucked to sign up for a LJ account. ^^

But GJ gets its revenue from advertisers too...

[first-spike.livejournal.com]

Just a couple of observations really.

First is just to point out that GJ is substantially funded by revenue from advertisers (it's in their FAQ). I mention it because that's the stick the "warriors" have been holding over SixApart's corporate head.

Second thing is, if the "warriors" don't take an interest in GJ and the other alternatives after all the publicity they've had around LJ, I'd be somewhat surprised.

Unless someone out there knows better (which is entirely possible).

[othercat.livejournal.com]

Meep! (no, don't go?) at least keep this lj as a free account, to update fic?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Not going anywhere. My account doesn't run out until July 2008 anyway. While I'm not terribly impressed with LJ's apology at the moment, I'm willing to hold off any final decision about keeping a paid account here depending on what LJ does over the next 14 months.

In any case, no matter what, I'll at least keep a basic account if I let the LJ paid account lapse.

One thing's for certain: that $150 I was going to give LJ for a perm account? Not a chance. Ever. Instead, I dropped $40 on InsaneJournal ($30 for a perm account, $10 for expanded) and figured I saved $110 that I would've otherwise spent.