Heh, I don't mean to distract from the very real saudade we're all feeling, but I do have to say that holy fuck am I glad LJ didn't exist when I was a teen! Having my early 20s preserved forever is bad enough. ;) (I was just on the edge of the digital-childhood generation; my peers and I didn't get "proper" internet access until college for the most part and our teen years were spent on BBSes that were ephemeral enough that my teenage bad life choices are not immortlized forever. Thank God.)
Ahem.
All joking aside, though, I know exactly what people are feeling, or at least to an extent; I stuck it out with working for Six Apart (owners at the time I left) long past the point where I should have given up for my health and my sanity, because of how much I loved LJ, and even though by the time I quit I was swearing I would never work on anything even in the same neighborhood as social media ever again, it was eight months later when mark and I started having the conversations that turned into DW. But no matter how amazing it is that people were willing to take a gamble on us in the beginning and have proven our wild-eyed idealism would actually work when put into practice, and no matter how glad I am that DW exists and can give people that escape hatch/lifeboat of saving their digital history even if they don't decide to shift entirely to DW from LJ/Facebook/Tumblr/etc, it's still incredibly sad to watch something we all poured so much of ourselves into start to crumble like this, isn't it?
I mean, DW isn't LJ, and will never be LJ (and we've never even tried to be LJ; we're us, not them, even if "them" used to be our younger selves once upon a time). So even if the vast majority of people who've ever used LJ did move their stuff over, which is unlikely, it's never going to be the same thing. (And that's not even getting into how many of my friends have died in the past 15 years and whose journals may get closed at any point from here on out, now, according to the new LJ ToS; I'm trying really hard not to think about that!) It's understandable that people are sad about it. Hell, I'm sad about it!
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Ahem.
All joking aside, though, I know exactly what people are feeling, or at least to an extent; I stuck it out with working for Six Apart (owners at the time I left) long past the point where I should have given up for my health and my sanity, because of how much I loved LJ, and even though by the time I quit I was swearing I would never work on anything even in the same neighborhood as social media ever again, it was eight months later when
I mean, DW isn't LJ, and will never be LJ (and we've never even tried to be LJ; we're us, not them, even if "them" used to be our younger selves once upon a time). So even if the vast majority of people who've ever used LJ did move their stuff over, which is unlikely, it's never going to be the same thing. (And that's not even getting into how many of my friends have died in the past 15 years and whose journals may get closed at any point from here on out, now, according to the new LJ ToS; I'm trying really hard not to think about that!) It's understandable that people are sad about it. Hell, I'm sad about it!