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[louiselux]

As a way of keeping track of you all...

[Poll #1034231]

I'm not leaving, although I'd kind of like to. I don't know what to do-- I'm feeling very depressed about lj, specially because Abe Hassan (aka burr86 and livejournal employee) thinks now is a good time to publicly mock the fans.

The entry with his comment was eventually deleted by the community mod, but there's a screenshot here, and an article about it here. I was really pissed off about it yesterday, but this morning my expression matches the one in my icon. I am feeling rather blank about the whole thing.

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[viridian5.livejournal.com]

I created accounts at GJ and IJ, though both have problems I've run into already, and I've created a backup of my LJ today even though I've failed to export it to GJ even with brown_betty's directions (http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html).

I'm staying put on LJ, but with the way 6A keeps messing around I can't help thinking I'll eventually be forced to go to follow people I want to keep track of.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I feel. I'll go where my friends go, pretty much.

I did have some problems exporting myself, but they were because I had to set the encoding of my journal to Western Windows otherwise LJ archive wouldn't read it. I'd be interested to know what problems you've spotted at GJ and IJ?

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

shaggirl offers a convenient listing of pros and cons of journaling sites here (http://shaggirl.livejournal.com/168702.html).

I have a few more personal experience cons to add.


GreatestJournal:
* Some links have odd names. "Your Pictures" is actually user icons. I thought it was a scrapbook for photos at first.
* I'm told that GJ sometimes randomly deletes some entries and icons. Eek.

InsaneJournal:
* I have to reiterate how ugly this site is. Also, full of ads. People have shown me how to download Adblock, but why should I have to download a program just to be able to deal with my journaling service?
* The insanity theme is followed throughout, and I do find it offensive and offputting.
* My Semagic program is having trouble posting to IJ. I get a login error message every time of "Malformed login response, web menus will be messed up" and when I click OK for that the Semagic box that comes up doesn't have the Tags space.
* I use an S1 style format. When I tried to customize my colors IJ's "Choose" colors buttons don't lead you to a color pallet that will give you the color name you need. The Choose buttons don't actually do anything. LJ and GJ give you the option of just writing "black" or "red" in but if you don't have the correct six-place name for the color you want in IJ you'll just get white.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

Also, InsaneJournal has gone down a few times just recently, possibly from the increased traffic caused by fans fleeing LJ for there as a result of Boldthrough.