[info]sherlock in [info]07refugees

I assume we can get ready for the next influx?

http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/news/100462.html

Cliff's notes: shit's broke and we ain't gonna fix it.
 

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I may be talking out of my ass but!

Like I said before, only less bitchy here then I did there, I just hope the general snappy attitude does not come over here. I also would love if the laziness stays there too. I mean, I know that it's hard to swim through billions upon billions of pointless comments but then there's the same questions/suggestions being asked millions of times when it's already been addressed.

I honestly haven't paid attention to GJ much since 2003, until now while watching all of this. But the information I had from my occasional drop by of the website was that it was mixing and matching alot of different codes. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a code monkey. In fact I know little about it but me and the husband was just throwing around gossip on the whole situation.

Didn't GJ use PHBB for PMs? Did they ever change that? And I'm somewhat sure that the galleries was by another script? Plus they 'apparently' screwed up the code, therefore they couldn't purge accounts.

Long story short, my husband, who knows more about coding but less about GJ, says it may be possible that some trouble could have been caused between license holders for the mixing GJ actually did. Also since they dabbled with the source code that's open source but never(??) released their modifications, they couldn't sell it (ie; sell account plans).

This is all just musings and there's no truth in it but it is something to think about.

Anyone's free to correct me but like I said, there's an idea.

Honestly, even back in 2003 when it first became GREATESTJOURNAL, people were skeptical, now they're all shocked, pissed, and suprised about this. Heh.

Re: I may be talking out of my ass but!

I can't speak for the laziness, since the majority of any journal's userbase is going to be made up of ignorant and or lazy people (because the majority of the human population is ignorant and or lazy), but I can guarantee that a significant portion of migrants from GJ are very grateful to IJ and Squeaky for providing an RP friendly place to live. The snappiness you see in GJ news posts was bred of really bad adminship and prior to ~summer 07 did not exist much at all.