[info]vampiress_diva in [info]07refugees

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greatestjournal's gone screwed up again. For those of you who still has journals there DO NOT try to upload icons for you will lose all but ten of them. Plus they once again locked out new journals.
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Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 at 09:47 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]aristoboule

And CJ is chock full of wank it seems, and the owner doesn't even understand the code the site uses!
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 06:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

Wow. I guess ij is the standard for journaling sites.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 06:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

At this point, it seems to be the case. However, Scribblit isn't open yet and I am betting that they'll be IJ's main competition. They seem nice, are 18+ only, and they have a nice design. Also, prices will likely be similar to IJ.

CJ, so far, is a bad value at $75 for a permenent account, technical problems, and an owner that seems intent on sabotaging herself from a PR standpoint. IMO, not worth it and still a step above LoJo.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:17 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

Still at this point anyplace is better then gj, even blurty.

Have you seen gj's main page? It states now that it only allows 10 icons. So it looks permanent. http://www.greatestjournal.com/
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:20 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

Dang! And seriously about Blurty -- I mean, is anyone even actively running it?
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
(no subject) - [info]vampiress_diva - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:29 pm (UTC)

[info]broken_crystal

I'm surprised they even changed it all. For a long time they left the front page the same even though we were progressively losing features.

The 10 icon thing is starting to make me think that we only temporarily got 100 back so people would shut up. And honestly I don't see why system can't try to focus on fixing the coding so he can do a purge, rather than consistently doing things that seem to make no difference other than causing people to be like "OMFG ASSHOLE HOW DARE YOU"
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:30 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

I signed up for CJ about 2 days before the server crash and today I attempted to signed in to find that my entire account was gone. Some of my friends lost entries and stuff too. CJ looks like it could be a cool site, but I was disappointed because out of all the journal sites I've used they have always made sure that entries and accounts weren't lost even when there are server problems.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:27 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

It's called backup tape. Most sysadmins who know what they're doing run the daily on a site where data is being uploaded constantly.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 03:38 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]amenosakura

Excuse me, but please get your facts straight before making assumptions. The owner of CJ doesn't pretend to know everything about the code there, nor is she ignorant to the mistakes she may make.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 06:53 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ondore

The owner of CJ doesn't pretend to know everything about the code there

Therefore she DOESN'T understand the code and the OP's facts are straight?
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:02 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]amenosakura

What I meant is that she knows the code, she just doesn't know it like the back of her hand.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:05 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

What did it for me was the inclusion of the adult content viewing options and her dismissal of it (the, "ignore it, I don't know how to fix it" or something to that effect), as well as claiming that the site is 18+ but initially NOT including those fields at sign up and now later saying that everyone needs their birthdate to be public or they'll be flushed. Sounds like pretty awful planning to me.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:34 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
(no subject) - [info]amenosakura - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:59 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]aristoboule - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:18 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]bloodbeat - Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 11:56 pm (UTC)

[info]pen

iawtc.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:09 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]pen

:-( Someone commented somewhere that he got into a fight with a user. And then didn't want to link it and give the site a bigger black eye. I wish they had.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:02 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

There's a link to one of the drama llamaing sessions in CJ's news, which now might be broken because of the name change. I made [info]commiej_news, which is where you can find a lot more examples of the tone there.

I had gotten two journals there, which were deleted when they had site problems. I reregistered one again, but after seeing the kinds of posts the owner makes and the problems they've had, no thanks! So I deleted the account.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]vampiress_diva

You should see the news community on gj. It's chuck full of drama. lol
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:13 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
(no subject) - [info]aristoboule - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:30 pm (UTC)

[info]pen

Wow. So not going to even look twice there now. Between her tone and business accumen, it looks very uninviting. Not good.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:15 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
(no subject) - [info]aristoboule - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:24 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]pen - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:23 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]aristoboule - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:31 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]pen - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:36 pm (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]shamangirl.commiejournal.com - Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 03:21 am (UTC)
(no subject) - [info]pen - Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 03:31 am (UTC)
CJ issues - [info]elfwreck - Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:36 am (UTC)
Re: CJ issues - [info]bloodbeat - Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 11:51 pm (UTC)

[info]broken_crystal

I saw the old news and news community today and I did think that they came across as having a sort of attitude, and I thought it was strange how they publicly announced people being suspended

My journal got deleted too, and several of my friends who had moved there from GJ lost entries or their entire journals as well. I have never seen anything like that happen on any other site I've been on. Even when they've had server problems they make it their top priority to ensure data isn't lost, and I didn't like that one entry that said "If you want to sit on your account then pay for it."
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:33 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ex_13874

I think this really says it all.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 09:44 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

Oh holly hell. It's nebris's?!?!?!
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 10:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ex_13874

[info]shamangirl is his girlfriend, or some such. It's like a really bad dream with even worse hair.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 10:49 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
(no subject) - [info]pen - Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 10:54 pm (UTC)

[info]aristoboule

*DED*

Okay, you win! That's... spectacularly horrifying! XD
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 02:38 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]shamangirl.commiejournal.com

And who are you to make snap judgments?

I understand the code, thank-you-so-much.

Tell me, are you a programmer? Are YOU well-versed with the coding mess that comprises the LJ code? I wager the answers are no and no.

Until you are, leave it up to us programmers, will ya?
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

I'm someone who knows their own limits, ZOMG!

Hahahahaha, you guys just get funnier and funnier!

Actually, I'm just someone who knows their own limits and limitations, which is something you might try doing yourself.

Also, I have a suggestion for your mascot: Trot(t)sky, because you seem to have gone to the Mena Trott School of Blogging Crazyspeak.

And blaming LJ for your screwup was the best laugh I'd had all day.

:D
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 06:23 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]valady

Re: And who are you to make snap judgments?

Here's my snap judgment...I'm now going over to CJ and deleting my journal. One less account for you to deal with.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 02:21 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply