Oh, I vaguely recall that bit of kerfuffle. It might have been the point that I deleted my LJ, although it is also possible I'd done that some time before, because the acquisition by ?Six Apart made me quite concerned. And yes, having also been here since 2009, I watched a lot of people mirror, and then very slowly either shift, or drift away.
But also, a lot of people had left LJ by the time that DW became an option. Many of us were experimenting with InsaneJournal and, hmm, whatever the other LJ clones were called (I'm pretty sure that DW was my third attempt to move away from the LJ ecosystem). Which isn't so much talking about the pattern with DW, but agreeing with what you've said upthread, about the fragmentation of the communities.
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Date: 2025-01-24 01:54 pm (UTC)Oh, I vaguely recall that bit of kerfuffle. It might have been the point that I deleted my LJ, although it is also possible I'd done that some time before, because the acquisition by ?Six Apart made me quite concerned. And yes, having also been here since 2009, I watched a lot of people mirror, and then very slowly either shift, or drift away.
But also, a lot of people had left LJ by the time that DW became an option. Many of us were experimenting with InsaneJournal and, hmm, whatever the other LJ clones were called (I'm pretty sure that DW was my third attempt to move away from the LJ ecosystem). Which isn't so much talking about the pattern with DW, but agreeing with what you've said upthread, about the fragmentation of the communities.