This time, I'm worried

[mamadeb]

I just saw this news.

I'm going to archive all my stories and essays, and I'm going to move the cooking school posts to my knitting blog, which can become a knitting and cooking blog. That would be http://mamadeb.wordpress.com.

Other than that, I'll just see where fandom goes next and follow the herd.

(I'm mamadeb on Facebook, btw, and I do have JF and IF accounts, but I haven't been on JF for well over a year.)

ETA: Debra Fran Baker on facebook.

Comments

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

It figures; just as you fall in love with a bakery, it closes. This feels so very New York. I save anything vaguely interesting anyway, esp. anything I write. But whither fandom goest has been a complicated guessing game all along. Just keeping up with friends is confusing enough.

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

That does look all kinds of Not Good. Especially right after they moved the servers to Montana.

Looks like it's time to do another backup to my InsaneJournal.

[cellio]

Looks like it's time to do another backup to my InsaneJournal.

Do you have tools for that? I back up my journal using LJ Archive regularly, but I'd really rather have a backup out on the web somewhere. I have a GJ account (same codebase as LJ and IJ), but I'm not sure how to connect the dots.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. I hope it holds off until I've slept, so I can back up. And I now have an IJ account, since I'm guessing that's the most likely exodus (fully functional LJ framework; if GJ had its act together, I'd have created one there, too).

(Hm. So tired I clicked the wrong usericon. Edited to correct.)

[sdelmonte]

I suggest we wait to see something from a better source than Gawker, which seems to hate LJ and its weird users. Not to say this isn't accurate, but Gawker is not exactly my idea of trustworthy.

[cyprinella]

Their numbers are apparently wrong, but I've seen a couple of people who know the employees who got laid off commenting in various places.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

CNet says it isn't quite that bad (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html). But not good, either.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

I'd wait for some less-prone-to-sensationalise-everything source to report this before getting seriously worried, but it's definitely not good news. :\

ETA: ninja'd above.

[aecamadi.livejournal.com]

If you really want to archive, which is never a bad idea anyway, there's a guide. But I agree with those who say that this is a wait-and-see thing, not a panicked fleeing thing.

[kressel.livejournal.com]

BS"D

Just when I was getting back into lj. I wonder if I'll switch over.

[batshua]

Are you hiding on Facebook? I can't find you.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

No. Just very dumb.

I'm going to edit this post.

Look for Debra Fran Baker. You'll recognize the icon.