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I miss LiveJournal so much. I was so reluctant to leave it but with all my irl friends migrating to Friendster and then myspace I had no choice. Privacy setti
by nvr219 13y ago
I miss LiveJournal so much. I was so reluctant to leave it but with all my irl friends migrating to Friendster and then myspace I had no choice. Privacy settings were easy, friend management was easy, desktop client was easy (and powerful). RIP
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- Legion 13y agoI agree with this a lot. LJ by its nature encouraged writing, not just status updates. It was a much more interesting - if sometimes drama-filled - read than my Facebook news feed is with many of the same people. Also, LJ groups have not been successfully replicated by any of the other major social media networks.
- icelancer 13y agoReddit?
- jseliger 13y agoLJ by its nature encouraged writing Wordpress does the same, which is why I primarily use it and not the innumerable alternatives. I think the desire to do long-form writing, especially regularly, is a relatively rare one, which is why we see most people migrating to sites that mostly do images / sound bites / etc. But the people who do do long-form writing will probably always be with us and probably always need tools appropriate to that genre. I don't know much about the history of LJ or why /how Wordpress supplanted it for long-form writers, but I do know that WP works pretty well for me, or at least well enough that I haven't seen any alternatives good enough to consider switching.
- Uhhrrr 13y agoIt is still around! Except for the fact 90% of my friends have abandoned it for less-featured platforms, it works great.
- brokenparser 13y agoBut it still exists? It even says © 1999 in the footer.