Ugh. LJ is still acting up

[dangermousie]

Are they ever going to fix it? Look, I am all for freedom and dissidents and commenting on corruption. And the Russian LJers have as much right as anyone else to post whatever they want, even if it may result in pissing off un- or authorized hackers.

But ultimately, and as a practical matter, I need a blogging platform I can reliably use. I want to be able to post when I want, I want to read others' posts when I want, and I want to be able to reliably make and reply to comments.

If I can't have that, I am simply going to move to another platform (so far, I am going with dreamwidth but am researching blogs proper. If all my flist moved to dreamwidth, I'd probably never come back to lj, but since they haven't, I am trying to wait it out for longer). I am not blaming or annoyed at either LJ itself or the supposed protest blogs which caused this. LJ isn't losing any money from me, as I have a permanent account and already shelled out all I ever will. Principles are great but practicality is important - and a working blogging platform is basically the sine qua non of what you want and expect from any on-line posting site.

Comments

[fivil.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. :/ Honestly I just wish Russia didn't have these problems, period (ie government's stifling of freedom of speech in the most appalling and occasionally absolutely criminal ways). I don't blame LJ, or Russian LJers, or Russian opposition, but whoever is paying for these fscking attacks on LJ.

It would be a shame to move to DW completely because there's a lot of communities that wouldn't fit in DW because LJ has more people of such varying backgrounds. I like DW, though, and should use mine more (I use it mainly to write feminist-leaning rants). Mine's http://idiothole.dreamwidth.org - I'll have to add you there as well!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

oooh, can I friend you?

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! :)

[lastingdreams8.livejournal.com]

Yea, part of the reason why I haven't moved all the way to DW is because my flist is still here, but since DW is a code-fork from LJ, it's got a lot of stuff I like that I don't like about other blogging platforms.
Like Google's Blogger is great, but their commenting notifications are not great.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like DW's platform better but it's pretty dead over there.

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. I'd move to DW, but all my flist is still on LJ and lot of communities I love are on LJ - not DW. So, I stay.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That's the sole reason I am still on.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

Ditto. The LJ freakouts are really pissing me off - what kind of joke is it that I can't login to my own Livejournal, edit my own posts and reply to comments? Seriously. But aside from the friends list problem, it's not bad enough (yet) to motivate me to get used to working with Dreamwidth after some 7-8 years on LJ. So unless LJ gets worse/keeps this up forever, then I'll probably stay. In the meantime though, I'd probably get cracking on importing my LJ posts to DW.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've saved all my posts on HD but I should import them soon.

[december-clouds.livejournal.com]

Someone on my list has just said she has a code and I've just asked her for one, I'll be "copying" my entries there, but not moving yet.

It's too bad, I've been on LJ for like ten years. ;-;

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know, this sucks :(

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Here is my 10 cents, wearing my software developer's hat, totally objectively, without any emotional context :D:

- DDOS attacks are hard to fight, especially large ones like this last one. It requires extra equipment because the processes for fighting the attacks are server-power heavy

- this equipment has to be bought, installed, etc. This is not going to happen too fast, especially not is any more waves of attacks are coming. even if there are no attacks, the extra software they are running to fight the attacks guzzles server power.

- there is no saying this will not happen anywhere else. We had DOS attacks on out Uni websites (by whom? who knows?), the whole place was in uproar for a while.Google had them, Twitter had the attacks. Google had them.

- DW is not the answer because it is small and maintained by fans (and fandom is notoriously volatile). Anything can happen to it in upcoming yeas (as it did to Great Journal which disappeared without warning).

- You might consider having a blog, though, on one of big platforms, this is definitely safer in the long run, and you already have a name in the fandom.

And here is emotional part:

- I just want to help LJ (as the platform for Russian democracy :D) as much as I can. If people sart leaving it might snowball and LJ might have to close down, and this is what is the ultimate aim of the hackers. So they will win.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Basically, all I want from LJ is to be reliably functional. I don't care about 'kick pr0n off' debacle - I have no interest in that sort of thing on LJ or off. I don't care about privacy weirdness because I don't post anything I'd be horrified anyone in the wide world to see. Adding games doesn't bother me because I ignore them. But wanting a site that functions reliably is the basic basic thing.

DW might go kaput and so may any other host, which is why I have all my stuff backed up on HD. But DW dying five years from now is of less interest to me than LJ not working right now. And yes, anything gets DoS, even places like twitter, but it's one thing to have one, get it fixed, the end. When there are running DoS attacks for two weeks with no end in sight, that's a whole other matter. (And yes, if DW got one for some reason, or had functionality issues for other reasons, I'd ditch it too).

And honestly, I am all for Russian democracy but I also need a site that works. I cross-post to LJ, in part for that reason, in part because most of my flist is here, in part because I've been here for 6+ years, but there is no way I am using LJ as a sole source any more, not until they fix their issue.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

hee! I am not trying to persuade you to stay exclusively on LJ. I just was trying to give my unsolicited advice that you might find that "proper" blog platforms can be the solution for you. :D

[eccequambonum.livejournal.com]

If I could get me f-list and my download communities on DW, I'd be there, and paid up in a heart-beat. SO ANNOYING!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

I understand your frustration, but I don't think this will last forever.

Anyway, I am also thinking_lotus on dw.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Can I friend you over there?

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

of course!