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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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.