Do we need a secondary venue?

[feliciakw]

With the wonkiness of LJ in the past week, a lot of us have been really frustrated with not being able to post, to communicate with one another, to contact peeps we only contact through LJ.

It seems a viable alternative might be prudent.

I know several of my LJ peeps really have no interest in Dreamwidth. I've also seen it indicated that DW users don't want DW to be inundated by LJ users.

It occurs to me that there is another alternative.

Long before I was talked into joining LJ, I was active on a number of Yahoo Groups. For those unfamiliar with YahooGroups, they act in a very similar manner to an LJ comm. I'm not sure about posting vids, and photos are posted in a photo folder available to the group.

Groups can be open or moderated, membership required or not. I spent many, MANY hours on my YahooGroups list. Too many. It's simple, convenient, and serves most of the purposes we use LJ for.

If anyone is interested, let me know. Perhaps a couple of us could start a group and co-mod or something.

Comments

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

If you aren't a fan of the visibility of lj than dreamwidth probably is a much better choice. But I think the price of belonging to a smaller community is, well, a smaller community. If people primarily enjoy online journaling because of the fannish aspect, I think this really is the best place for it.

Personally I love the interactivity that lj provides, the communities, the nested comments. And as someone who has been on lj for over ten years I've been witness to the whole "something breaks, everybody freaks out" cycle a few times now.(And, really, what form of social media HASN'T screwed the pooch in the past year? Facebook is constantly encroaching on user privacy, twitter fail whales at least once a week.) All I can say is do what makes you happy. But in response to feliciakw's initial question: this is where I've been and this is where I will always be. For me, personally, nothing else compares.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

This. Basically, this.

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

I guess...blame it on my being a relative newbie. I've only been with LJ for 4 years, and this is the first serious outage I've experienced. As for Facebook and Twitter, I avoid those mostly because they're so huge. (There's a stubborn streak in me that balks at being told "You have to do it! Everybody else is!" - I don't even have a cell phone, and see no real reason to get one.) I guess I just *like* small and low key. I'll agree that LJ offers a lot of shiny options, but I'd happily settle for something in between - a bit more options than DW has now, but keeping its kind of low-key feeling.

But yeah. Everybody's got their preferences. :)

[kerravonsen]

I don't even have a cell phone, and see no real reason to get one.

I am not alone!