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GJ is back up
http://news.greatestjournal.com/
specifically - http://www.greatestjournal.com/communit
Main DB died :( [Jan. 13th, 2008|04:11 pm]
system
There was a complete hard drive failure today in the main DB server - site now running on backup DB.
as mentioned earlier:
We recommend http://InsaneJournal.com with brand new servers and highly motivated admin and mods.
You can alwas export current Journals and Comments here:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/export.b
Of course, you click "120 comments" and POOF, the DB is not available there.
Honestly, i am rather surprised they fixed it.
specifically - http://www.greatestjournal.com/communit
Main DB died :( [Jan. 13th, 2008|04:11 pm]
system
There was a complete hard drive failure today in the main DB server - site now running on backup DB.
as mentioned earlier:
We recommend http://InsaneJournal.com with brand new servers and highly motivated admin and mods.
You can alwas export current Journals and Comments here:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/export.b
Of course, you click "120 comments" and POOF, the DB is not available there.
Honestly, i am rather surprised they fixed it.
"You need to be a motivated mod. Don't you see we love GJ and don't want fucking IJ? Please don't do this again.. Please. Gj is home."
Bwahahahahahahahahaahaaaaa.
I cannot freaking believe anyone wrote that. GJ just needs to DIE.
And what exactly is so "fucking" about IJ? I know 700,000 users who are taking it up the ass on a daily basis thanks to sweet "system" but that sure as hell isn't happening here!
Which journaling site does all this happen on, please tell me?
- User icons cut from 1,000 to 100 to 10 to 5.
- Site advertised as a free photo host; cannot even upload images to it anymore.
- Journals and comments deleted all over the place; site admin says don't put in support tickets.
- Money donated to switch usernames and build site out; most donaters never get new names and site goes to pieces instead of getting better. No one can figure out what happened to the money to this day.
- Oldest, most broken out-of-date code and default layouts of any Danga-powered site out there, ads all over everything because system refuses to take money from users and still believes he can make a dime off Google Adsense and the like, proving he is clearly delusional.
- A TOS that like LJ's allows you to get booted/journal deleted/permabanned for almost anything.
It's not happening on IJ! But "oh that fucking IJ - we don't want that!"
Did I mention GJ's users are clearly delusional too? Fuck GreatestJournal and the horse that system rode in on.
http://www.greatestjournal.com/communit
Still, I can't say I want GJ to just crash and burn. My stuff is backed up, yes, and I don't post there anymore, but it is still a memory I'd like to keep. We're not all delusional. We just hate seeing a place we loved go down in flames. I understand you're upset with those who keep claiming IJ can never be a good 'replacement' but please remember a bunch of us who are here and happy still have fond memories of GJ (not of system, of the site).
I came here from LJ and the difference is just like night and day. People on LJ were unfriendly, rude, snarky, cliquey, trollish, stalkers, troublemakers, immature, meddling, harsh, rash, stupid, and that's just the short list of the mob's overwhelming qualities. I was there for two years and one week and for two years and one week I hated it. I don't know why I stayed. The people on IJ are pretty awesome so far; that's one thing that's helped me to like it here.
GJ seems to have LJ's bad attitude spread amongst most of its users. I read the comments to the last two news posts on GJ; so many people there are so snarky and trollish, just like on LJ, but unlike on LJ where many trolls and insults are simply ignored, on GJ they get into a lot of childish fights with each other, get nasty, lose their tempers, and it all gets so ugly so fast. I dislike it intensely.
When they insult IJ because it has a color-scheme they don't like I just shake my head. Others complain that on IJ you can't change your journal style without a paid account; that's totally and completely untrue. You just can't edit the theme layer without paying - that's no different than how LJ works! We have so many features even for free users that GJ users no longer have, I wonder what part of the deal here they don't understand. I wonder why they are so harsh.
Another thing that impressed me about IJ is the news page, which as you probably know you can read right from the login page. Judging by the News page,
Not only that, he's responsive, which is a rare quality, and very hard to find in most site admins/owners. He really cares and even replies to everyone who thanks him for doing a good job. He probably takes a lot of time just to keep up with those comments in News, posting repsonses and answering people's questions. And he answers questions! All the time. Every time. Now compare that to system. Enough said.
He even listens to suggestions in comments in his own journal, in News and probably in other communities as well. For instance, the other day I suggested there should be a press area on IJ;
I know I sound terribly harsh on system at times, but there is a world of difference between him and a good site admin, and anyone who can't see that is just pain blind. Sorry.
I love this site, no doubt. The site scheme is supposed to change soon, and even if it doesn't, it doesn't bother me. I'm here to write and hang out, not worry about what color the pages are. I couldn't care less. But I'll never trust any blogging site again after the way LJ went the "broken-promise-about-no-ads/broken-prom
It was originally 2000, way back when I first got a journal there.
It amazes me that anyone is surprised by the site going down, because I actually called it back it May and I was only an occasional user.
How could people who were there every week not notice?