Welcome back to Livejournal!

[slycat]

Glad to see that since Google's decision to block all accounts using pseudonyms from their Google+ service, more people are returning to Livejournal. I've never left good old LJ. I've been paying for it since 2001ish and while I haven't used it so much recently, I certainly plan to use it more. While it's not as high tech as Google+, it's still the most friendly and widely used blogging network for furs. You can set up "circles" using the lists to restrict who sees whatever posts, it's just not done with as much sleekness.

Anyway, to those of you returning, welcome back :)

I really should fix the code I'm using on my website which integrates LJ sometime soon :P

Comments

[arakinuk.livejournal.com]

You should update the code, and include a giant ascii-art "finger" to Google in a multi-line comment ;-)

[sandroo.livejournal.com]

I think, all things considered, I'll give LJ a miss.
It always was a bit crap =OP

[ravellwolf.livejournal.com]

So is this a confirmed Google+ exodus? If so I'm kinda glad. I think Google's big enough as it is. While people think of them as this welcoming, friendly company, it's still a business out to make money and monopolising everything will eventually lead to business practices we'll all suffer for. They've learnt a lot of what not to do from Microsoft's mistakes, but they're not immune and their attempt with Google+ to obtain even more personal data has made me bit wary of them.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Mm, I've been here since, what, October 2003? Paid, also - I prefer paying for something myself, than this loop of being sold to some company and them paying for the service, then me paying for it in their raised charges.

About the only big thing I'd really change with LJ, to be honest, is getting more aggressively anti-spam. It's not a big problem, but still, it'd be nice to see an end to the fake comments with BBcode URLs that don't even work here. =:D