lady_windermere

Is LJ down? I wasn't getting replies to comments, now I cannot get on the site!

Edit Seems to be back now!

Right I'm With LiveJournal, Dreamwidth and Insane Journal, so considering what to do with them. I suspect Livejournal will continue to be my main journal, I will back up my posts once a month on Dreamwidth, so as not to have a whole load of the same posts appearing on both journals at one time. Insane Journal, I guess I'll just leave. It always annoyed me.

My Lj challenge will only be posted to lj, until the back up, so shouldn't show up on Dreamwidth, until the end of the month back up. The Masterlist of J2 AU recs I will post at both journals.

There will be some original content here at Dreamwidth for friends I have here but not at LJ. If LJ is down, I will probably be at Dreamwidth not Insane Journal.

Now I have to decide if I want a paid account at Dreamwidth so I can have more icons (I find six just not enough), and polls. It might also be good to crosspost at Insane Journal. I do love the idea that LJ gets some compitition to keep it on it's toes, and not be as high handed has it has been in the past, and I think Dreamwidth is the best for that.

I'm not sure where to offer the tarot readings...continue doing that just on LJ, or do it at DW as well.....Ummmm!

Anyone else got any thoughts? What are you doing with your accounts?

From lj_maintenance

It's that time again! In a little over 12 hours, I'll be heading to the airport, leaving on a jet plane, not quoting the rest of that John Denver song (bless his heart) and arriving in our frosty cold data center in Billings, Montana to do some NETWORK MAINTENANCE.

This maintenance window will be from April 4, 04:00 - 07:00 UTC. For the rest of us not in a zone that is even remotely UTC'ish, please check out this link and choose your city/timezone.

Though the window is 3 hours, I do not expect livejournal.com to be down anywhere near that time. Of course we'll be working during that time, and we will see network connectivity "blips" as well as potential slowness but the site should be up and functional.

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I hope to be asleep

As posted by lj_maintenance, just passing on the following information!

"Time converter here. Find your city and watch what day it is since for those of us in the USA it's actually going to be on Tuesday night that the work wil occur.

Even though the window is going to be 2 hours in length, LiveJournal will not be down that entire time. Just be aware that *during* this 2 hour window, connectivity may be slow or timeout completely."

So that, for example, if you are in the UK it will be down on Wednesday at 5:00am!

Not good news for insomniacs and early risers if they want to check LJ

Well I have been thinking, with LJ being down for few hours, would I be safer logging out before then? I don't normally, but was considering it. I thought it might keep my journal a little more secure during the move. Or wouldn't really make much difference do you think?

I will probably be over at Insanejournal, http://users.insanejournal.com/woman_of_/profile if you want to add me. I am hardly ever there, only go if something is wrong with LJ. The daft logo and insane sayings drive me demented. Have had a look to see if I want to watch TV instead, but guess I will be there. Not really wanting to watch childrens TV to be honest.

Look after your selves, and hoping this move goes smooth and my beloved journal will be up and running quickly afterwards!

Live Journal has announced that they are bringing back basic accounts, but with ads, the two relevant posts are here and here

They have made it clear that they need the revenue generated from ads to keep the site running, so ad free is not an option being offered, and to be fair, I cannot think of one site where, if I don't pay, I don't get ads. What worries me in the proposals they have outlined are 3a and 3b, as I can see it causing problems.

I might not have to be bothered at this journal (yet) as I don't see ads, but if, for whatever reason, I wanted an other journal, it may become an issue.

Just been musing over this today. Sam Wincester at College, where does the money come from? Of course he might've sponsership, and be working to get through his degree. The money certainly doesn't come from either John or Dean. John has spend any money he had long ago on hunting gear, and they are surviving on credit card scams and hustling. Anyone got any other suggestions for Sam paying for his College education?

shapinglight I'm having problems getting your replies, either to my own posts or my comments to your posts at your journal. I did find your reply to my post about Angel: After the Fall #7, but that was in recent comments. The e-mail notifiction took three days to arrive. So love if I am slow commenting, I have not been getting my usual way of communicating! Just to let you know. I do not mean to leave you out! To be honest, I am even getting them out of sequence. Your edited reply to my comment came before your original reply. So so not me, I will do what I can to make sure I get any replies, but may not always be on top of it. Honest not being rude!

Huge shout out to sueworld2003 I so wish I could help you. I love you, you are as much of a mad James fan as I am, we gotta stick together!

Right off to have an early night!

Want to make sure someone from fandom is on the board? Well why not give vichan your vote. At present she has 286 (5.6%) votes as first choice, and needs more. She was the one who created fandom_counts last year.

There is First, Second and Third choice sections. To see what each of the candidites stand for follow the links from This Link then go vote here

Fandom needs someone involved in fandom! Please!

Snagged from kunzite1

"a new community has popped up and i figured i'd put it out there.

who here would like to see LJ continue to thrive?
who here would like to see LJ continue to be a place that you can go and post your opinions about life?
who here would like to have productive discussion about where LJ is going?

if you're willing to be a level-headed participant in talking about the various aspects and changes to LJ, please request membership in the powerusers community."

I do have a couple of concerns regarding this new change in accounts

News from Russia
We made a commitment to keep you abreast of important LiveJournal developments and we want to honor that commitment and let you know about a new feature we are going to test in Russia: Paid Accounts Supported by Sponsors.

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I'm not that surprised the LJ has ended Basic Accounts. Everywhere I go, if I do not pay to use the service, I get ads. Photobucket, Insane Journal, Myspace, Real Player. They all give me ads, and have been doing so for quite a while now. In some cases since I joined.

Yes, when I first joined LJ I was delighted to be able to try it out for free, without Ads. I joined for fandom reasons, one of my favourite authors had friends locked her journal, and I e-mailed her to ask how I could still see the entries. That was it, I had to join Live Journal. I really haven't looked back since. It is a great place for fandom, and also to keep in contact with people. So much so, that after I joined, and LJ had a Permanent Account sale, I got one (Everyone points screaming "You have a Permanent Account, no wonder you do not care"). I was unhappy about the whole interests cover up, as it seemed LJ was ashamed of certain members of the community, who didn't give "right" impression to the general public, and Advertisers. They have responded to the concerns from the users, (how I hate that word, I still think it means they do not value us), and reinstated the interests in stats.

No what I object to is how LJ Management handled the whole issue. Not making it clear what they were going to do, and insulting us by saying it was to "Make signing up easier", cos of course we cannot handle three options, can we? /snark.

I except it was a financial decision, and if we are to keep LJ, it has to make money to run. Fair enough, but up to this news release on the 13th, they were either trying to keep it away from the majority of the LJ community, or insulting us by making it seem they were doing us a favour.

They have to improve communications, and also image with the people who are here already. Yes management has to make tough decisions, and cannot always consult everyone, but a clear straightforward statement would've gone down so much better.