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calime ([personal profile] calime) wrote2017-04-04 08:59 pm

Bye, Livejournal

So, I haven't been really active on Livejournal - just an occasional crosspost - for a long time, and I thought about deleting it several times after the servers moved to Russia, whom I trust even less than the US :) The new TOS finally gave me the kick in the pants I needed. I have many fond memories of the Livejournal, which was for me really the first site for a more in depth engagement with the fandom, especially Highlander fandom, and I am sad to leave, but it hasn't been the same for a long time.
I have imported the content to DW long time ago, so now it was just the matter of downloading both my own LJ and the Highlander100 community that was started by other fen and that I ran in the end for a while - I will see and try about getting that content up to AO3 one day, per the old community rules- (I used BlogBooker) and deleting both the community and my account. I chose the option to also delete all my entries and comments in other communities.
So, one chapter closed. I will now go and donate to AO3 and continue keeping a paid account here on Dreamwidth - and maybe try posting here more often, and hang out on Tumblr (which is a shitty place though if one wants to have any fannish discource in addition to reblogging pretty pics.
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[personal profile] mackiedockie 2017-04-05 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the heads up, and the hard work preserving the communities. I'm behind the curve on the LJ situation. I did migrate to DW early and have only cross-posted for a long time...maybe it is time to send a silver bullet through the LJ side.
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[personal profile] baronjanus 2017-04-08 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be glad to see more of you around here:)