Musings upon Livejournal

[winter]

I was wondering what to write in my anniversarial, thousandth post on Livejournal. Good on Six Apart for dropping a topic into my lap.

I remember Time Before LJ. I had a blog, first on Pitas, then on my own domain. Interaction was via blog comments and shoutouts in your own entries, mailing lists and forums. Everyone else had a blog, but somewhere in early 2003 I noticed that everyone else was also, slowly, getting accounts on Livejournal.

I hated the service, for the clumsy way it looked, the lack of customisation and the way its one appealing feature - friendslock, the ability to get your post to the people you wanted to see it and yet not to the internet at large - required you to take the plunge and get an account yourself. I caved in in April 2003, and since then I haven't changed the title. I still call my LJ the way I used to call all of LJ: The Pit of Hell.

(Re-reading my blog, I realised I got my LJ invite from beckerbell. Should I be thankful, my dear, or kill you? ;))

The privacy and social networking features are why I'll probably stay here until it lacks the social momentum warranting them - until enough of my f-list moves elsewhere. Since I'm multi-fandom, that's unlikely to happen soon.

For those moving to GreatestJournal, I'm Extenuation over there. The account is used for RP, but if you're moving, please friend me and I'll friend back - because I don't want to lose track of people, and I want to keep reading my entire f-list, not just the people who stay here.

Dear Pit of Hell: happy 1000 posts.

Comments

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

Not moving anywhere as of yet but I still added you over there XD (endofdreams)

[winter]

And added you back :)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I've got an insane journal and a greatest journal, and once scriblit.com is out of beta, I'll probably jump there too.

[winter]

I'm also watching scriblit with interest. What I'm mostly worried about is server robustness - Six Apart has the venture capital to keep LJ afloat, but all clones have downtime issues. GJ's support seems to be nonexistent, while Insane Journal is down for me each time I check. I've been using GJ pretty much constantly over the past nine months for chatting and co-writing with fyrie, and there has been much, much more downtime than LJ had.

[xwingace]

My GJ account under the same username is still largely inactive. But I've added you so in case of extreme circumstances that's one less friend I'll have to find again. :-)

XWA

[winter]

Hey, you can tell by my GJ icons I only use that one for an obscure RPG :) At least I also have this one there.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Happy 1000th post.

I won't be moving from LJ, as more of my F'List is about the people rather than about fandom.

[winter]

That's just my stance, too - I like to geek out with people, but it's the social features I'm here for :) Can't have that if we're all on different services, though I'm fighting GJ to set up an RSS feed of my LJ.

[astarise.livejournal.com]

Happy 1000th Mommy :D

[winter]

*swats* :P

Happy 1,000th post!

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

*toasts your LJ*

PS--I'm staying and I hope you do too:)

[peck25.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your 1000th post!

[winter]

Thanks :) Hard to believe it's been over four years.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I'm not planning an immediate migration either (although I think one may be necessary eventually, if Six apart doesn't start improving its customer relations). I've got a backup journal over on GJ - I'm ithilwen1 over there. I've friended you just in case the worst should indeed happen, as I too am fond of my Friends list and would like to kep it as intact as possible.