I believe I first introduced myself to you under my LJ identity. You were looking to get your hat repaired and I suggested asking at Goorin Bros. in Harvard Square.
Since then I think I've been commenting on the DW side.
Awhile back, someone pointed out that LJ (at that time) had the online population equivalent to a good-sized city, over a hundred thousand people with a large Russiaville in it. It was a community. People formed relationships and friendships and I've seen people bailed out of tight spots by online trust-networks pitching in to help.
Now we are dispossessed, and the thing that is still making me sad is ... most of us can go, but we leave the dead behind. Suzette Haden Elgin had an LJ; it replaced her newsletters as the place she wrote about linguistics and $life and there was a lot of really good discussion there. Her LJ was actually one of the first places I found, that motivated me to start spending lots of time online, and my gateway to the rest of LJ.
When she died a few years ago, her followers clubbed together to make it a memorial account, preserved online forever in exchange for a one-time fee and the promise that no updates or changes would be made.
I don't think there's a way to port that over, or any other accounts that had been preserved specifically because they were valued by many.
If we can still go read without being logged in, it may not be lost. But I too have that feeling of leaving a soon-to-be drowned town, knowing that you'll never be able to go back again.
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Since then I think I've been commenting on the DW side.
Awhile back, someone pointed out that LJ (at that time) had the online population equivalent to a good-sized city, over a hundred thousand people with a large Russiaville in it. It was a community. People formed relationships and friendships and I've seen people bailed out of tight spots by online trust-networks pitching in to help.
Now we are dispossessed, and the thing that is still making me sad is ... most of us can go, but we leave the dead behind. Suzette Haden Elgin had an LJ; it replaced her newsletters as the place she wrote about linguistics and $life and there was a lot of really good discussion there. Her LJ was actually one of the first places I found, that motivated me to start spending lots of time online, and my gateway to the rest of LJ.
When she died a few years ago, her followers clubbed together to make it a memorial account, preserved online forever in exchange for a one-time fee and the promise that no updates or changes would be made.
I don't think there's a way to port that over, or any other accounts that had been preserved specifically because they were valued by many.
If we can still go read without being logged in, it may not be lost. But I too have that feeling of leaving a soon-to-be drowned town, knowing that you'll never be able to go back again.