That was unexpected...

Apr 03, 2015 11:20

Did anyone else get that "Remember Livejournal" email and get a sad? Poor LJ. Tumblr really is the cool kid in town.

a letter to the people

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ride_4ever April 3 2015, 17:40:26 UTC
I got it, but it didn't make me sad. It actually made me feel like that's a sign of some life. At MJ last month I got pimped into Tumblr, but I'm still gonna prefer LJ because extensive conversations.

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nos4a2no9 April 3 2015, 18:07:46 UTC
Yeah, I still don't really get Tumblr. It just doesn't seem to have the same community-building feature as LJ, because you really can't have those extensive multi-thread conversations. (Or maybe you can? IDK).

How was MJ this year? Did you have a good time?

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ride_4ever April 3 2015, 19:22:56 UTC
MJ was wonderful -- had a really great time -- but also sad because it was the last MJ.

I cannot even put into words the feels when a ballroom full of about 100 fen all sang Barrett's Privateers together!

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__marcelo April 3 2015, 19:50:19 UTC
I haven't seen many stories where websites are landscapes (as opposed to tools or gimmicks); I've got the feeling that LJ is beginning to look positively Ballardian.

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pir8fancier April 4 2015, 01:49:07 UTC
I find this terribly ironic, since LJ and it's various owners (with the exception of Brad) did their best to undermine and get rid of fandom, refusing to acknowledge just how much content fandom generated. Now fandom HAS left. They got their wish.

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ivy03 April 4 2015, 03:47:21 UTC
OMG so sad.

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brigantine April 12 2015, 18:30:38 UTC
Yep, I got that one.

I've not been super fannish lately, and when I am I've been hiding over at DW, mostly, because, as pir8fancier pointed out, LJ's been kind of jerking people around.

I don't understand the appeal of tumblr, either. I mean, it's great for disseminating pretty pictures, but I can never keep track of who said what, or which post was the start and if it got re-posted or re-blogged, or, ugh, I just get dizzy. :P

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ride_4ever April 12 2015, 18:37:05 UTC
I can never keep track of who said what, or which post was the start and if it got re-posted or re-blogged, or, ugh, I just get dizzy. Ditto, bb, ditto.

I got a tumblr account a few weeks ago so I could preserve ("reblog") an audio compilation of every time Kowalski has ever spoken a sentence that contains the phrase "come on, Fraser". *g*

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