Looks like Livejournal is being sold. I’ll be interested to watch how this develops, because the solitary reason I use LJ is because despite its flaws (and there are many), is that it’s one-stop-shopping for comments. I used to use Moveable Type on my own website (and *God* how I miss the ability to, you know, design my own look & feel), but I was collecting 1. a lot of comment spam, and 2. comments in 3 different locations, not all of which were emailed to me.
At the risk of damaging my ego, I think I shall ask:
Actually following blogs isn’t a problem. It’s what bloglines and links lists are for. It would mean I’d largely lose out on comment discussions, though, since I forget to look at those.
Having the blog on lj makes me more likely to follow it daily and catch all the comments. On anything else I’d be playing in 4 or 5 different sandboxes to catch all my blogs and stuff – and I’d miss other people if we lost LJ but I’d stay in touch with certain blogs as an absolute minimum of which of course yours would be one.
I’d be likely to loose track of people I don’t know so well rather than good friends
I was tempted to answer yes, because I probably would subscribe to the new blog. However, honesty compels me to answer no, because my feed reader informs me that I have 1213 unread blog posts, many of them related to my day job.
You’d have to get someone to set up a wossname, an LJ feed, a syndication. I do have Blogs From Elsewhere on my RSS feed – and I never ever think to read ’em. This is a community, they’re Outside…
Actually, there’s a syndication in place (mizkit_feed, I think), so it’d just get reactivated. But yah.
I just don’t read outside LJ – even those friends who already have non-LJ blogs. So in all honesty, I had to say no.
I am very lazy and only go to non-lj blogs when I remember.
The sale could potentially be a good thing, you never know. The recent changes I haven’t like have all happened under Six Apart’s rule.
Reading lj is one of my unwinding activities and it’s easy to remember. I try to keep up with other blogs, but I tend to be very erratic and not to comment because that takes up time I should be using fro writing.
I would, but it would be more of a “pop by once in a while and see what you’ve been saying” thing as opposed to a “read every post every day” thing.
I’d read it as an RSS feed on LJ, if available.
Yes, if they reverse some of the incredibly stupid stuff going on around here, I’ll hail the sale as the dawn of a new era.
That said, I already have a shadow journal over at GreatestJournal in order to read the journals of people who migrated over there after Strikethrough. I don’t update it, but I do read it. I may back up this journal and start getting my friends here on RSS feeds over there. Or something.
This sets aside the whole question of whether or not you should leave: you shouldn’t. Most of the reactions I have seen to the sale have been alarmist, not reasoned. LJ will keep on trucking on.
Yes, yes I would. And I would like it better because your LJ feeds don’t work anymore (haven’t for some time) and I use bloglines and a desktop widget so I can see who’s updated and read just the ones I want.
I think I have 3 total LJ’s that I read, and you are the only one that posts with any regularity, but I have to remind myself with a sticky to check here every few days.
Also, WordPress is the shit.
I would follow your blog everywhere. I read it for its content, not because it was on LJ…
Yes, ‘cos I’d grab the RSS feed here, but it’d be less easy, certainly.
I would almost certainly follow it through a syndication on LJ. However, that is problematic for comments: the comment threads are going to happen on the new site rather than on LJ, and I’m much less likely to read them there.
…I should probably start using my feed aggregators (there’s even one built into IE), but most days it’s hard enough to keep up with LJ…
I read lj almost daily. Anything on other blog types I may remember to check on a monthly basis.
I would like to, and I would intend to, but I’ve met me. I’d read it for a week or so, and then I’d forget to look, and then it would just be another link in my blog link folder, collecting dust, and then I would be sad.
I use MT 4.0 myself now, and added a plugin that killed 99% of the spam dead in its tracks. The rest can be handled with one-click moderation.
I like LJ because of the one-stop for seeing everyone’s blogs, and the ability to have RSS feeds for folks who blog elsewhere.
But all things considered, LJ is much less attractive than it was when I originally signed up, and I see a day in the not so distant future when everyone will start scattering to the winds.
I have accounts at Greatest Journal, Insane Journal and Vox. The truth though is that I only check them occasionally. LJ is the only one I check on a regular basis, and though I don’t comment very much on your blogs, I do enjoy reading them.
I have Google Reader; were you to reactivate mizkit.com, I would of course keep reading. ^_^
Well, this isn’t the first time LJ has been sold — I’d wait and see how it turned out before fleeing, really.
And I’m waffling about what to vote on your poll, so I’ll likely go with click click click. While I follow a couple of non-LJ blogs in Google reader, they do get lost in the spam a lot, whereas I’m religious about catching up on my LJ friendslist. So if you left I’d add you to the reader, certainly, but if you really wanted to be certain I’d read something email would be in order :)
I would keep reading it, although more like twice a week, as opposed to my LJ friend’s list, which I check a half-dozen times daily, as my 5 minute time-waster while i get ready for my next project of the day.
As you might expect from me, I’ll note that a Drupal blog is more powerful than an MT blog and has livejournal crossposting abilities so you can keep an LJ blog that looks and feels like an LJ blog rather than an unfriendly feed, with comment control and the like. It’s not quite as full featured as posting directly to LJ, but it does give you a much easier time designing your site. =)
FWIW, the press release makes it sound like the entire reason SUP bought LJ is because they love LJ. And the fact that they pried it out of 6A and are going to make it the sole, dedicated product actually makes me feel *better* about it than when 6A bought it and made LJ one of its projects, and the red-headed stepchild project at that.
I don’t expect things to change for the worse; I in fact think it’s more likely to get better.
Yeah, what she said.
The beauty part of LJ from the reader side is that we can follow lots of blogs from one handy place without having to know how to work RSS or any of those other magical handwavium-using processes. (Yours being, of course, by far the most important. But that Gaiman chap is right on your heels; best keep an eye on him–he might amount to something one day!)
You gotta do what you gotta do. But were you to leave, the pandas would cry.
By which I mean one that has the whole entry. Because I’d just create a livejournal feed for it and continue to read it here. (I’d probably comment less and read fewer comments.)
InsaneJournal is like Classic LJ, if that’s what you want to keep.
and SOOO much cheaper.
Go read through the comments and find the ones in english left by the russian users. They don’t hold much hope.
See, I’d follow everyone’s blog if I could manage to make it read through google reader. But if I had to go click on every person’s blog I think I’d lose it. However, I also acknowledge that LJ’s eventually going down the tubes and eventually we’ll have to deal with it.
Of course I would. I read you every morning, even if I don’t always comment. I’ll follow you wherever you go.