Insane Journal Roll Call

[featherynscale]

Just for reference, who's got an InsaneJournal? I know catvincent, rfunk, and ysabel do.

I'm not leaving yet (my LJ is paid through November of next year), but if you all leave, I want to know where you're going. I have a feeling that will be it, so I snagged an account over there. It's the same username, if you're there and want to add me.

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[catvincent.livejournal.com]

Added you over in The Other Place.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Went ahead and made a placeholder journal Just In Case. Same name.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

becky_gardens

I've done nothing with it, but it's an "in case" sort of thing, I'm also trying to move over my beccak1961 stuff to pdf, I don't want to lose my katrina stuff or Lucy stuff

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Who's jumping ship and WHY??!!

Why

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I'm jumping. As for why one might, basically nobody trusts the new Russian ownership. As I said in my post about it,
"Is it better for LJ to be owned by a Bay-Area company that just wants to make money with questionable regard for its customers, or a Russian company that just wants to make money and do Putin's bidding? (Have you heard about the current state of Russian media freedom? Or that LJ is literally synonymous with blogging there?)"

More immediately, they're messing with content filtering and flagging in ways that are raising the hackles of many.

Re: Why

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling that was it. This so sucks. I just paid for a year right before this happened.

I went to the above mentioned site. I didn't care for it really. I'm more inclined to go to www.deadjournal.com

Re: Why

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I just paid for another year of LJ too. But I probably will wait a while before actually moving.

I'm not fond of the InsaneJournal schemes and all-pervasive motif, but technically and culturally it seems OK to me.

Deadjournal requires getting a code from a current member to get a free account, or paying for an account. That won't work well for moving a social network.

Re: Why

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I thought they got rid of the codes for new accounts? I have a friend who is on there. I'll have to ask him.

Re: Why

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Blurty is apparently only for those 18+. That might be interesting...

Re: Why

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

In theory, 18+ would seem to be a good way to go....

But the Blurty site seems broken. It kept asking me to re-login, and it took way too many clicks to do some things. I got an account, but was quite unimpressed.

Meanwhile, GreatestJournal was really slow, apparently using older code than IJ, and apparently they're over-subscribed and directing people over to InsaneJournal anyway.

So of the three I mentioned InsaneJournal seems to be the way to go on a purely technical level. It's ugly, but it works.

Re: Why

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I have that re-login problem from time to time here on LJ; as near as I can tell, it seems to be related to cookies not being accepted on certain subdomains. It's very consistent - for example, I am NEVER logged in when I visit chronarchy's journal anymore, at least not from work (I never remember to check when I get home). But if I browse to another journal, I am still logged in there.

IJ looks very much like LJ Classic, which appeals on some levels, but on another level, it's one guy running the place, and he's probably about to be overrun with site traffic. So that's iffy...

I don't like the fragmentation that's inherent in this sort of site move(s), but I don't really want to support LJ anymore. But if 1/3 go to DJ, 1/5 to IJ, 1/7th to GJ, 1/12 to WordPress, etc... *sigh* LJ's ONLY real merit for me is as an aggregator. I can "journal" anywhere, including offline.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The only defector from my list so far has been catvincent, but a fair number of people are talking about it. The whole process would take too long to explain, but the short version is that people were pissed at SixApart over some censorship/random journal deletion sort of things, and then SixApart sold LJ to SUP, who run the Russian servers, and who have a history of abusing/annoying the Russian userbase. SUP has some connections to powerful people in the Russian government, and there are some theories floated that they have/will turn over political dissenters' journals to suppressive governmental types. So a lot of Russian users decamped immediately, but US, UK, and other folks are just nervous (or sympathetic) at this point. Check news for more in-depth coverage.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I thought as much.

I checked out the site you listed and didn't care for the look/interface of it.

I'm more inclined to go to www.deadjournal.com unless they are the same SixApart people.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

I can only keep up with one journal at a time, and since I have a permanent account here I don't see me going anywhere. I may have to snag something over there just to keep up with others though.

[kenllama.livejournal.com]

I do not, but I may if this time really is The Great Exodus. My beloved, _branch_ has a lot more at stake (ie, much more deeply involved with censored communities) and has already gotten an IJ account. In fact, she might have bought a permanent account there already, which makes sense at the current prices.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I may if this time really is The Great Exodus

That's sort of where I am. I use the site to keep up with y'all. If you leave, the site is pretty much useless to me.

[kenllama.livejournal.com]

much as Six Apart's recent and continued actions piss me off, they have not so far actually necessitated any real change on my part. I've my content as Rated-G or whatever, and I've set my preferences to include any naughtiness that other folks want to share. I will not rate my posts. I'm just dissenting from the whole affair. Anything that they'd object to is typically filtered anyway. So, for now, not going anywhere.

[ysathora.livejournal.com]

http://oreibasia.insanejournal.com/

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

I'm not planning on going anywhere.

-=-
But Nerdily speaking, backups are a good idea.

I have used lj Archive In The Past, and found it good.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive
Not sure if can play the archive back into another journal-location.

Web Based version:
https://gregstoll.dyndns.org/secure/ljbackup/
Greg stoll seems to have written a script to restore a journal in a new location, but I have not tested it.
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Backing up your LJ to another website:
a guide for Windows users
http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html

OSX:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljkit


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If you are feeling VERY nerdy, check out this python set
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Probably not a bad plan as a back up -

http://leiandra.insanejournal.com/

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

I'm ~digamma over there, though that's more to do with my old RPG moving there from the nigh-defunct Greatestjournal than with jumping ship from here.

[theslice.livejournal.com]

I reserved off "theslice" there just in case.

*snork*

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Ooops, wrong thread there before. :)

Traffic from LJ defectors broke insanejournal (http://www.insanejournal.com/)'s server!!! What I get is the message, "InsaneJournal is down;
InsaneJournal is down while we do some work in order to move the site to a bigger faster server."

*snork*

But once it's back up, I'll probably try to get my same username, too. Just in case.

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

Hmm, no I just have the LJ account. If you people start leaving... holler!