Time to say goodbye to LiveJournal

Jan. 22nd, 2011 at 1:46 PM

I'm tired of the ads that take over my screen.
I'm tired of the ads slowing everything down while they load.
I'm tired of the ads crashing my browser when I reload the page to dodge the ad.
It's easier to do quick posts to Twitter and Facebook.
And if I'm doing a detailed post with HTML, I should be posting it to my website anyway.

So, I'm going to start migrating "important" posts from here to my website, and editing the posts here to post to that, and probably won't be posting to LJ any more (not that I've been doing much LJ posting).

The only bits going away from my LJ are time-sensitive things like "I'm having a giveaway, reply by [date]." Everything else will end up as a pointer to where I'm keeping it. No link rot!

I'll post when I'm done migrating this content, and include other pointers as necessary. That is all for now.

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brooklynknight

Jan. 22nd, 2011 10:16 pm (UTC)

Lots of people I know are setting up WordPress blogs and somehow getting their posts their to copy to their old LJs.

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varianor

Jan. 23rd, 2011 05:20 pm (UTC)

I hear you on those annoyances. (Though I'm not having the ad problem causing crashing that you are.) There's so few people here that it kinda makes sense, though there are a few that aren't on Facebook. I am going to have to check out WordPress. There are posts that I just refuse to make on Facebook because I do not trust their ability to maintain confidentiality or privacy in the slightest. Good luck with the move!

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arya

Jan. 23rd, 2011 06:35 pm (UTC)

...You get ads on Livejournal? :/

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friadoc

Jan. 23rd, 2011 08:19 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I only come on LJ now and then to post friends' locked personal updates.

I do know that you can setup other blogs that then feed stuff to LJ, but...I get the desire to leave it, too. It's like the folks who run it are more old thought, or something.

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