The server is not robust

Allow me to point out, for the public good, what the casual visitor to Journalfen may not realise: it is not a good alternate lj destination. It's not even a good location for a fic journal - it's down all the time. If you've heard people joking about the server being robust, they were being sarcastic. It would be great if that problem could be fixed, but I believe JF's operating costs are already rather exorbitant for its owners, so that seems unlikely.

It is not going to be possible for livejournal fandom to move out in any organised way, nor to duplicate, at least not for a long time, the network we have here on livejournal. For this reason I advise against moving, but if you do go I want to point out that greatestjournal and other lj-clone users, AOL and AIM users, and TypeKey users (blogs with Movable Type/TypePad) without lj accounts can log into lj to have comments authenticated using the OpenID option as explained here.