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[rolanni]

In case LJ goes belly-up, I've established a blog account at Vox, which is prettier, not to mention less-irritatingyly-titled than Insane Journal:Of Carousels and Kings.

...and now to do the exercises, and sit down again with Saltation.

Comments

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

Is there some rumor of danger of LJ's demise?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Yes (http://nimoloth.livejournal.com/542450.html). There are more

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Hit the wrong button. I was going to say that ther are more links in the comments to that post.

Whether it is actually more than a rumour is of course a different matter. For myself I'm not too bothered, I don't think I have any posts which I need archived (I often compose offline and then post the result, so I have the originals). I really don't see a good alternative though which has the same functionality, especially the custom friends-lists to adjust privacy settings easily (IJ might, since it is based on the same original code). Mostly it depends where people go, if they go, I have no interest in setting up lots of accounts just to read a few people on each.

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed. I have bookmarked no fewer than seven different locations where Liaden Universe news and/or discussion may be found and more than one of them _requires_ a userid/login account. And this has resulted in me having multiple ones on certain sites, much to my dismay. Some are arguably MUCH better than others, so I just lurk there and don't bother to post to 'em.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Hum? All I could find was this http://www.livejournalinc.com/press_releases/20090106.php which sounds like a restructuring, not a going away?

[claydowling.livejournal.com]

That press release makes it sound like a restructuring, but it has all the makings of a going away. They'll be managed out of Moscow but operations are in California? Maybe for a year or so.

[claydowling.livejournal.com]

If you'd like to find an option besides one of the social networking sites, I can set something up for you that would be part of korval.com, which might ultimately make everything easier for your fans.

I can't say how that plays with the value of social networking via a communal site like LiveJournal, but it is an option.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I can set something up for you that would be part of korval.com, which might ultimately make everything easier for your fans.

We should, I suppose, have a "writing business" blog-thing on korval.com. Neither one of us has the energy to keep it updated right now. Too many things to do, and too few authors to do them.

The readers of a business blog aren't going to be interested in my cats, or the travails of an academic secretary; also, LJ helps me keep up with friends, so I do want to maintain a "personal" social networking site.