Oh, SUP, just stop now, please

[owl]

Grrrrr SUP

No new Basic accounts can be created as of yesterday.


So, are we leaving LJ now or what? Where's everyone's backups? I'm catre on GJ and jediowl on JF, and am on IJ as thewhiteowl.

I mean, I don't want to leave LJ. I like it here. I have a perm account (until SUP decides to downgrade it to Plus). But if everyone else goes, there's nothing to stay for.

Cannot be bothered to watch this week's Torchwood in the iPlayer. Everyone's saying it's rubbish, so I may give it a miss.

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

The problem I've got is that a lot of my friends aren't in fandom and don't really care about all this enough to move, which doesn't really give me that much impetus to leave LJ, however much SUP may seem to regard us as a lot of comfortably boiling frogs.

If people like you who I definitely want to stay in touch with are moving, I think my choice would be Journalfen if I could figure out a way of actually getting an account over there - the 'create account' page just gets me a 'we're not creating accounts' page, and I'm not going to the trouble of randomly spamming communities just to have five posts to point to so that I can take advantage of anon_no_more.

I never actually remember to use my GJ, and having actually *been* on the books of Avon and Somerset Mental Health, IJ and its stupid theme can bite me.

[senji.livejournal.com]

They're putting the heat up a little too fast for me I think, although they've not actually given me the activation energy to do anything useful yet, and if I do go it'll be to something self-hosted and I'll maintain the use of LJ to keep in touch with other people, my friends list is too fragmented for everyone to jump ship in the same direction.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I've thought about getting my own blog, but I really like the friendslock facility on LJ.

I thought this post (http://telesilla.livejournal.com/635997.html) of telesilla's made a good point, that people aren't going to migrate to where the technology's clunkier without an overwhelming incentive.

[senji.livejournal.com]

I quite agree.

One of the things that makes self-hosting more attractive to me is that I don't make locked posts. I'm not sure why blogging tools haven't adapted to include content-filtering like this -- all the ducks are pretty much there to be shot by now; maybe there's no pressure on the system because everyone who wants those features is with one of the LJ-alikes?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I have a wordpress.com blog which allows you to set posts to different passwords so that you can effectively filter content. The big difference is that it's not a friends list with mutual sharing.

[owl]

The friends list is the greatest thing about LJ. It's like this amalgamated feed, plus the security is tied directly to it.

[owl]

That's the trouble there, the scattered flist. Plus I'm not going anywhere that doesn't have threaded comments. I mean, seriously, why would anyone want it the other way? It's 2008, not 1998.

[owl]

I think I got my JF when they were having open houes for a week once. Don't like the IJ theme myself, but if it's where everyone's going to go...

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I can has journalfen now, anyway - username is ankaret again. :)