The Whole LJ-thing

[shipperx]

So, yeah... how big of a deal is this? Since I had a paid account and I had customized the look of my LJ, I haven't noticed anything different. I completely understand the fear of LJ turning into MySpace, but is this something that's actually happening? And how many people are going to Greatestjournal.com? Are those journals just bolt-holes or are people seriously changing over? Enquiring minds and all...

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[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Mine is strictly a bolt-hole. And I wouldn't even bother with a bolt-hole, except that I figure it's the easiest way to remain in the know if the fandom does move. But I think people are worrying about nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing. But .0000001% of anything.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I actually don't know of anyone who is simply moving over there... everyone I've seen, so far, is creating a bolt-hole in case the folks in charge at LJ start making life miserable.

I originally created my greatestjournal account back during one of the scheduled LJ outages, since I'd noticed a few other people doing it. I'd figured, at the time, that it would be a good way to keep up with my friends if LJ happened to be down for any length of time.

[elsaf]

In my case, I'm just making sure my username is available if at a later date LJ becomes inhospitable. There are other ElsaF's out there. :-)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'm ignoring it, pretty much. I figure as long as they leave the journal part alone, I don't really worry about what the main "front" page looks like - I think I've looked at mine once.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

my concern isn't over the look of the info page. have you been to myspace? it's a free for all. i have two accounts there for musical units of mine, and i am constantly bombarded with spam in that 'inbox'. if they really want to clone myspace here, well, i shudder to think.

*clinging to my LJ*

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been there; I have a page - but since I'm not a band, just a media contact, mostly I'm friended to bands and I only get the odd spammer come through. (Who's interested in a 41-yr-old CD reviewer but singers?) I've only used the blog once or twice, it's clunky and hard to use (and even harder to get to from the main page). There's no way to directly answer messages easily and I don't CARE who's online now or not. I, too, wish to cling to LJ as long as the journal looks and acts like this.

I'm just hoping it's all a kerfluffle everyone's making too big a deal over... I hope.

[rahirah]

I don't think anyone's jumped ship yet. It's just kind of a back-up emergency plan.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

i reserved one as insurance. i hope i never have to use it, but if LJ turns into myspace, then i wanted to at least have my name reserved over there. i'm not looking to leave here unless it becomes unbearable. so far, TPTB's response to the hoopla isn't terribly reassuring. but only time will tell.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I have no intention of going anywhere, nor do I expect too. But playing with it is rather fun...

[treacle-a.livejournal.com]

I will leave LJ for GJ the day they will have to prise my cold stiff dead fingers from this keyboard. :D

[spikewriter]

It's a bolt-hole, and really just a place holder to make certain I get to keep my name. I actually have a MySpace account, too, but that's under my author name and, again, is to reserve the space.

i like LJ and have no intention of leaving it if I don't have to.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

Bolt-hole for me. Also, herself_nyc posted a link to an official LJ missive that made it seem like all of this isn't as big a deal as people had assumed.

[cordykitten]

No, I got mine in 2005 when LJ was down. And I got several blogs with my LJ name on it.
I'm staying.
SixApart is planing to make this (LJ) more for kiddies and Vox for older ones.
Bad luck for them; I'm staying here :)