[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]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

[info]aristoboule

Sadly, I think the only LJ clone to not have much, if any, drama in its new/announcements posts is IJ, maybe JournalFen too, but I haven't looked in forever!
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[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

[info]aristoboule

Duh, the link was in MY IJ journal, oops! But a quick visit to CJ news is probably all you need to see.

I started to write up a critique of all the LJ clones but it got long and I'll post it tonight.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 07:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

Are those legitimate links?
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:23 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]aristoboule

In my journal? One is to another community on IJ, the other is to CJ... however, the CJ one won't likely exist anymore because (as I just checked a bookmark) she moved older news posts to old_news.
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

OK. They were broken and I wondered. Thanks. :-D
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 08:36 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]shamangirl.commiejournal.com

Do you believe everything you read on the Intrawebs? If so you are being deluded.

Have you thought to ask users who are there and quite happy? No, you'd rather believe this other person, who doesn't know jack about running an LJ clone site.

Okayyy...have it your way. You'll miss out, along with anyone else who takes this person's word as gospel truth.

Happy Holidays!
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 03:21 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pen

I don't think I'm missing anything if you have to come here and tell me about it.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 03:31 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]elfwreck

CJ issues

Is this your "get new customers" sales pitch?

We're all, I would hope, aware that *any* site has features that will make a vocal group of people very happy. Some have features that make bazillions of people happy--note the popularity of MySpace.

I don't like MySpace; the features they're most interested in promoting are not the ones I care most about. What I want from a journaling site is:

1) Easy customizable views: I want to see pages with my choice of layout, not other people's godsawful red-text-on-black-with-blinkies, nor dark-grey-on-light-grey six-point type.

2) Account stability. Sounds like CJ's got some problems there.

3) Privacy. I don't mind submitting a birth year to register (although I think it's an absolutely ridiculous requirement; it's not like nobody on the internet knows how to lie), but I will NOT go along with a requirement to have it viewable on my profile page. Which, I suppose, means I won't have a CJ much longer.

4) Hosting terms I can agree with. Which includes "no deletions by owner whim." I'm not interested in putting real content on a site that says "we can delete your account, any time, no warning, because we think you're not following the spirit of the TOS." What, your language skills aren't good enough to describe the actual behavior you want from your users--they have to be mindreaders as well?

It sounds like CJ is "hey, here's a journal clone. We don't know what we're doing with it yet, and we haven't got the bugs worked out, but we're cool people and we're gonna do nifty weird things with it." CJ may suit the needs of many people. It's not what I'm looking for in a journaling site.

I have secure places to throw content. I want a social atmosphere I can feel safe in--a site with stable terms, where the amount of advertising, if any, is at an agreeable level (and not "maybe we'll have it someday, and you'll just have to cope with whatever we decide on"), where my friends find enough of the features that matter to them, to build a community, not a collection of blogs.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 05:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bloodbeat

Re: CJ issues

I concur. It sounds more like a place that caters to "emo" teenagers rather than rational adults who actually have something to express.
Posted on Dec. 19th, 2007 11:51 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[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