[info]keieeeye in [info]07refugees

Another note/welcome

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Due to [info]squeaky's last post in [info]announcements telling us that GreatestJournal users are being directed to create new accounts here because of server strain there, I'm going to open the asylum up to talking about GJ issues as well. I expect that it will still mostly be about LJ simply because the problems going on there are just so insane and there's already a huge base of us from there, but GJ's technical problems are becoming increasingly overwhelming.

So, if you're coming over from GJ, welcome to our corner of the internet. If you have any questions or problems feel free to comment or email me and I'll do what I can to get you sorted out. Remember to use the tags list when you post, and I'll just go and add some for GJ now.
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Posted on Dec. 6th, 2007 at 11:02 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]keieeeye

Probably, I have it on JF, GJ, here and CJ (though after a bit of wank that went down with the owner she might have deleted it :P). I'm mostly pretty quiet there too, my f-list is almost entirely friends from the last RP I was in and I just poke up in find_a_pb and find_icons and things occasionally.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:11 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

I'm volcanoradio there. I've actually been more vocal in the news posts there lately, because the situation has had me so annoyed that I felt I had to speak up and say how I felt, even if it is lost on the maintainer. It's a shame to see it go so far downhill, but actually, I'm much more impressed with the quality of ij than I ever was with gj.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:13 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

Ha yes, I talk in news posts there and LJ sometimes as well, because I can never quite resist good wank. I think they've cut the icons to 10 again permanently this time, it's listed as 10 on the main page now >.> and creation's shut off again. It all makes me wonder about the fate of RPs there. There doesn't seem to be much that I'm interested in here, though, so *shrug* I just find it hilarious that I hear things about GJ either from news here or this asylum. You'd think it'd at least come up on the site it's happening on...
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:16 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

Exactly how I feel. When I heard that the maintainer of gj hasn't actually communicated with his staff in three years, my jaw nearly hit the desk in shock. I can't believe that he's so nonchalant about the running of his own site and doesn't seem to care at all. I've had more news about what's happening there here at ij than I've ever seen posted on the actual site.

The only thing that I'm horribly worried about here is the "comment rot" issue. I do all of my rp'ing (private lines and comms) in threads, and I would be utterly devastated if something I'd spent a great deal of time working on suddenly disappeared and was lost forever. My games are actually now thinking of setting up names on ProBoards, and cross-posting all entries/comments there, as a precaution.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:20 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

Yeah, Squeaky said that he was going to have that fixed in the next code update, which I hope will be soon but I'm not sure exactly. I personally haven't actually seen it, which is slightly comforting, but it'd suck to have it happen that one rare time on a thread that you really liked. And especially since part of what I love about journal-based RP is the actual journal part, with the commenting to each other and all. Scenes you can do on AIM and just post in one entry, but the writing back and forth to each other you can't.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:24 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

Exactly, and I really don't want to lose the writing I've done. Because of the sheer volume of it, I don't save my journal entries/threads to my hd, and I don't want to lose any of them -- especially as one of my boys has his wedding to his boyfriend coming up soon. That's something that I'd like to be able to look back on, and though I'm probably being paranoid, I'd still rather be safe than sorry.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:26 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

The only thing I've backed up from my old RP Exsanguination was a single post. I'm sort of hoping GJ will just sit around, even if it completely decays, because I'm on a Mac and last I saw the archiving tool that ran on Macs didn't save comments. I'm sort of tempted to change the passwords on the most vital accounts and get someone to do it for me. Honestly I could probably live with it if I lost them, but I'd much rather not, simply because that game was just such a big part of my life for so long, and I've since lost touch with my best friend from it. The scenes and journals we did together and the auto-saved logs from my IM client are pretty much all I have left of her now.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:30 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

I think I would feel the same if I were to lose my posts/comments. I'm also hoping that gj will just sit there even if it happens to decay into the wasteland -- that sounds awfully selfish of me, but I have two private lines there who refuse to move to another server, and I'd be upset if I lost them because they're long-term and I've become good friends with my sl partners ooc. It's heartbreaking to lose touch with people who were a large part of your life. I've had it happen before, so I understand how you feel.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:35 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

Yeah, I miss her dreadfully sometimes. It didn't help that at the same time I was having crazy medication issues and having a very rough time emotionally. I was a bit spoiled with that game actually, and it's hard to find anything to measure up now. Hopefully something good will come up here since I took the liberty of creating firstname_lastname for my three favourite characters. :P

I had better go and make dinner, but I'm going to friend you when I get back coz you're cool. :D
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:40 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

You're more than welcome to friend me! I've not posted anything in my personal journal yet, though when I do, it will probably be much gushing about my games, and also about music and books (I'm a Brit transplanted to Chicago, and as I don't have a driver's license in this country, I take the bus everywhere -- so I have lots of time to read). In fact, I should be posting something soon about one of my rp couples, because I can't keep myself from gushing over them. But for now, it's past my bedtime, so I shall friend your journal and hopefully talk with you soon!
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:55 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply