LiveJournal revival!!

[gustavolacerda]

LiveJournal has been a powerful force in my life, as it has been for many people of my demographic (English-speaking nerds born in 1975-1985). It started winding down in 2010. In the last couple of years, I've been talking about the idea of Christmas-time revival, and to my happy surprise someone else has decided to make it happen. Maybe it will

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[cunctator_]

What brings you here?

[olifhar]

Yup, I'm still here!

I get my online social needs met through my personal Slack community nowadays, but a chat based community is really different from one based around more reflective writing.

[gustavolacerda]

I love the idea of a personal slack community. How do you guys pay for it?

[olifhar]

We just use free Slack. It wouldn't be worth paying for it, since we have about 30 active members and another 15 casual members. There's a 10000 message history limit, but you can get a JSON export of all public channel history at any time.

[gustavolacerda]

I want to learn this JSON export trick! Is it this? https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-your-team-s-Slack-history

[letters_in_sand]

YESSSS
LET US LJ!

[gustavolacerda]

yaay

[marymcglo]

Hi!

I said "OK just this one entry", but now I am really tempted to start writing more just to drown out the cringeworthy entires by my younger self :)

[hykue]

Nice to see you on here!