What are people doing in the aftermath?

[norwich36]

So, my friends, what are you doing in the aftermath of the Great LJ Strikethrough of 2007? I'm a little torn, myself. My faith in LJ has been shaken enough that I'm probably not going to buy a permanent account, but other than that...I'm just not sure. In addition to my greatestjournal account, due to the persuasions of bop_radar and huzzlewhat I now have accounts at multiply and insanejournal, respectively, though multiply seems a little too...myspaceish or something, to me, so I doubt I'll actually be doing anything over there, and may actually delete that account. (I'm norwich36 everywhere).

What is everyone else doing?


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Oh, and here are a couple funny links related to the great strikethrough: I absolutely adore this person's profile, revised to clarify that she doesn't necessarily condone all her interests. And this is a funny (and image-heavy) link to some of the creativity that came out of the fan protests.

And join fandom_counts, if you haven't already. Over 30,000 fans in less than two days! And seperis encourages community owners to add "fandomcommscount" to your comm interests, so we can get a count of fandom communities too.

Comments

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

I’m in the permanent camp so my whole feeling towards this would have been annoyance if fandom did a mass migration.

We all know LJ’s mistakes — pandering to homophobic, racist, hypocritical, unaffiliated groups; suspending accounts without looking at the content; speaking to the press before addressing users; and the lack of internal organization that it seemedthat no one was informed of let alone trained on the new policy changes. That said, despite the tiny nigglings about earlier statements that seem to contradict it, the “mea culpa” has satisfied me for the most part as it seems, they have learned at least a few lessons from this.

Will LJ make mistakes in the future? Sure. Will LJ aim to admit to and remedy mistakes in the future? I dunno. LJ not admitting and fixing mistakes is the one to ponder on when deciding whether to abandon LJ. That said, while <24 hours is ideal for responses, I think 48 hours is reasonable to get organized and then decide by commmittee how to go forward.

As for where to jump ship to, you, anything that supports RSS (to recreate the friendslist), pingbacks and trackbacks (blog on blog commenting) is cool with me. Of course, the beauty of a service such as LJ is that it’s all contained in one browser window and the friendslocking and filtering can’t be duplicated (easily, yet) when everyone has their own URL.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Sorry for leaving "already have a permanent account" off my options!

I think your list of what we would need in a good LJ substitute is a good one, and hard to find, currently. (Do all the LJ clones support those options?)

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

I think the LJ clones (JournalFen, GreatestJournal, Blurty, InsaneJournal) are working from the source code that LJ/6A put out so they should all support the same features unless for some reason, the site admins tinker with things to take load off the servers.

Reading through the other comments, I’m realizing how important the cut-tag is! That’s easily solved with Wordpress and other clones with the “read more” tag though, the cut-tag is nice because you can plop it into the middle of a sentence.

As for the issue of where to move to, do fandom participants want to stay centralized and be subject to one entity’s whims? The other option is to decentralize and start independent blogs but that takes effort, more time, more money, and sometimes, technical know-how which makes places like LJ so attractive because of the ability to do all that without technical know-how.

Oh if only there were a fork of Wordpress that catered to fandom needs.