The server is not robust

[cimorene]

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.

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I'm not planning an all-out move - but I am sprucing up my JF just a little, as I don't have the time/energy to start up something completely from scratch at GJ. And, at heart, I don't want to leave LJ; it really is home.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I have a gj, but it's private, and I would find it extremly inconvenient to maintain multiple journals there if there were any real danger of the majority of fandom moving. (There may be someday, but I don't think this is it, yet.)

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

So true about poor JF, and I'm not wild about GF, but LJ is making me crazy. Honestly, I tend not to get caught up in this stuff, but I've never liked LJ and this purge and their oh-so-inadequate apology have pushed me to the edge.

But where to go? What's next? I do think it's time to leave this format, but . . . Back to snail mail?

I dunno.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I don't think a retreat to mailing lists, archives and websites would be impracticable, and fandom already knows how to do that, since it's what we did before lj. But it would be inconvenient enough that I'm sure it wouldn't happen in any significant way until lj became a great deal more inhospitable.