Once and future things

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Considering recent events, has there been thought at all about having LJ(or other blog)-like journals as part of the site?

It'd be even huger, but it'd give us somewhere to go (if we do indeed end up wanting one) and has the potential to bump the archive a level above an awesome fannish hub. It'd give us a place to *live*.

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[boji.livejournal.com]

I imagine that, complexity aside, the costs of adding blog facilities to an archive would be prohibitive. Also...

Have to say I can't see the need and I say that having whiplash from this kerfuffle. One would post a fic notification to their blog, then link to the archive, no? Unless linking to posts in the archive from personal & comm blog posts became an issue.

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

Unless linking to posts in the archive from personal & comm blog posts became an issue.

Well, it's an issue if you no longer have an LJ to link from because it was suspended for having "chan" or "incest" in the interests...

[kerravonsen]

More fool you if you did.

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

You mean like incest survivor communities that listed it to help survivors find each other? Or the Lolita book discussion group? Come on. I don't want to get into this here, but there was no reason up until a couple of days ago to suspect that interests in controversial topics would get LJ users into trouble and not say posts containing "copyright infringement" or "blasphemy" or whatever some crackpot felt like complaining about.

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

Really? They did that?

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

Never mind. Oh my God. I read pornish_pixies, and a number of those other journals. sbrb_blackcest :(

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Have to say I can't see the need and I say that having whiplash from this kerfuffle.
Fair 'nuff. Part of it's just that I've been waiting for the mass fannish exodus from LJ for a while now. We've been here a *while*, and in my experience fandom tends to jump when we spot something else.