Where will we go if LJ shuts down??

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Any ideas/suggestions?

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[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

I have a fully stocked fallout shelter for that kind of emergency.

[ron_newman]

While there is genuine cause for concern, I find the subject line to be needlessly alarmist.

I am trying to learn how to backup all posts and comments in a community.

One of the laid-off people seems to be involved with a possible LJ-replacement project called Dreamwidth.

(Also, I like hrafn's answer below this one.)

OK, added an "if"

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

But we know it's going to happen. Companies have no money. Companies cut down on ads. Places like LJ go out of business.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Calling Valleywag "genuine cause for concern" is a little like cancelling your trip to Yellowstone for fear of Bigfoot because of an article in the Weekly World News.

So, those people were not actually laid off?

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

...

Further, more reputable links

[arrowintwolakes.livejournal.com]

C-Net confirms the layoffs, not the numbers (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html).

It should also be kept in mind that lj's been through this sort of thing (and worse) before.

Although one of the guys laid-off has a name pretty close to Beardo, which sounds suspiciously like a Russian supervillain. Perhaps this was a move not instigated by global economic troubles but really a secret manuever by, for instance, the Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Also, I've got hosting space and bandwidth like it's cool. if we wanted to move to our own site, I'd donate those resources.

[ron_newman]

That's good to know. What sort of server software would you recommend? (An LJ clone, using their open-source code base?)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

The Burren has good food and drink.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

yanno, they do. I think I ought to go out tonight.

[richips.livejournal.com]

outside!

yeah not like i am not an addict

[ron_newman]

in this weather?

[girlspacemonkey.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've heard of that... that's that thing on the other side of my window where all the people are honking their car horns, right? The one with the trees and stuff.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

You have fun with that. Wear a coat.

[ifotismeni]

i say we join the arlington mailing list and overwhelm it with our awesomeness. that list needs a good injection of awesome, srsly.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Can we change the name to Burrito-tonomy?

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

note they are *not* trying to sweep this under the rug, so at least kudos for knowing information flows. I've seen multinational corps not meet things heads on:

"LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

Thank you for your patience. "

[concrete.livejournal.com]

I vote for Facebook. All my previously technophobe relations are already on that.

[veda815.livejournal.com]

Facebook seemed like the logical choice to me too - or yahoo groups as a distant second. People expect to find communities like this on the large public sites. I would suspect if the site branched out on to a private server it will keep its core member group but miss out on all the one off people stumbling in.

[apricot3.livejournal.com]

if we're just talking about how we can get together in person, there are YahooGroups and something I'm a member of called Meetup.com

i just hope Frank is ok so i don't get forced onto blogspot, i don't like it there!!

[solarpanda.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, maybe the alleged LJ-replacer will have a "search previous entries" function. Or does LJ already have that and I'm too dense to find it? If that's the case, then I will probably just wither away into nothingness.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Before they redesigned the Profile page to its new, suckier, layout, there was a very small icon shaped like a magnifying glass that you could click on to search a journal - it hung out right by the "watch this/join this" buttons. Very useful. No longer anywhere that I can see :(

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

In before "outside".

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

oh
whoops never mind

curse you, richips (don't worry, the curse is fake)

[cos]

I personally highly doubt LJ will let itself completely die. If it can no longer be a for-profit company (which I don't think is very likely to begin with) then it'd probably allow all of the content to be available to an open-source project based on the LJ code, so LJ could migrate there.