mod post.......we might need to think about life boats....or at least have a drill.....

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first off, here is mangodebango's award for winning this month's contest...many thanks to bitterlawngnome, as always!!, for making our monthly awards!!



second....here is the the LJ staff posting that article that i posted the other day....now no, there's nothing new there, it's the same article...i have read through all 218 (thus far) comments and several people have raised a very good point about why the lj staff would post such an article---especially since it's basically a 'fuck you' to loyal customers, whom LJ figures are replaceable.....the theory some have raised is that the lj staff posted that to warn us to be prepared to abandon ship basically....i think that is a good theory....i believe the lj staff posts are done by the US staff and i know they have been pretty much left in the dark by the russian owners---some have admitted that in comments on other posts, such as on the release 88 post.....that article was also posted on LJ's twitter & FB and i know that the american staff man those posts.....i like to view this as an act of nobleness before the ship goes down....a coded message 'iceberg ahead'.....

now, we do not know when these changes will be foisted upon us....as your captain (since i'm going with the ship analogy i'll stay with it), i will stay with the ship til the last---no one will need to tell me to get back on board dammit! but if you have time, please read some of the comments there....please be aware of what is happening to LJ....

as i've posted before, this is our home until we are kicked out or LJ becomes untenable....i think the latter might happen before the former....the community IS set up on DW...i understand moving to another site is a difficult decision to make, especially when you've been somewhere for a long time and this is 'home'....but our 'home' is taking on water and whereas some people will swim in it, i think the majority will prefer to get in a life boat and go somewhere warm and safe where we are welcome....

DW is still invite code free....they have a community for lj refugees....they ARE working on getting picture hosting on DW (which i admit is a drawback)....there is a community for helping you adapt your layout to DW if you need help here and i used that group and got help there....

DW is also AD FREE no matter your account level!! and please read their guiding principles and think about LJ and how they use to be and it's just wow.....

i don't mean to sound like an ad for DW....i understand it's not for everyone and some people will just abandon LJ totally without going somewhere else....and i know that some people will stay with LJ....but i know that many many people are going to be looking for a new home.....DW is the most similar to LJ....i'm not a fan of 'blogger' and you can't really have a community there.....

so please consider looking for a life boat if you are angry and fed up about the upcoming LJ changes....get a DW account and fiddle around with it....LJ is still allowing you to import your blog to DW...who knows, LJ might not allow that in the future.....i really think that post by the LJ staff though, once i saw those comments expressing the idea, is a warning.....like i said, i'm your captain and i'm staying on board here (community wise, my personal blog is already over on DW, though i do the daily writer's block on my LJ now just to subversively take digs at LJ...haha) and shall be here until the end.....

all this LJ fuckery is TRULY 'grounds for separation'....yes yes i did find a different hall & oates song to work into this! :)