ADMIN: A poll... moving the comm?

[virtualinsomnia]

I'm planning on making a backup of the whole archive that will remain offline for now, and it will be updated once a week or so. I already have the framework for this in place, and a backup from back in May when this whole thing with LJ went down the first time. (Say thanks to the awesome kernelm for making this happen!)

I don't want to actually make a full-on secondary archive online until I'm forced to, as this will be a huge amount of work, I'm sure. However, I would like to try and reserve our name at the service of our choice. That way, should the worst happen, you guys will already know exactly where the archive will turn back up.

So, to that end, a poll...

[Poll #1036653]

Relevant links

The four LJ-style journaling services I know of so far:
http://www.journalfen.net/
http://www.insanejournal.com/
http://www.greatestjournal.com/
http://www.deadjournal.com/

An LJ comm made to help people who are planning to move. It has an entire thread devoted to getting people JournalFen invites if they want them.
leavin_eljay

Oh, and it goes without saying that I hope we're NEVER forced to move, yes? This is just worst case scenario planning. I intend to try and keep us here on LJ for as long as humanly possible.

Comments

[meinterrupted]

Although JF is a fandom-centered service, since it's so hard to get a free account, I would suggest against it. What good is a archive if no one can post in it?

[virtualinsomnia]

Believe me, I am considering that. Honestly, at this point, I'm planning on making the backup acct. at either GJ or IJ, unless something huge happens that changes my mind (though I can't imagine what that'd be).

[thenyxie.livejournal.com]

I see GJ is doing well, just want to say that because GJ does not offer paid accounts, they are unable to provide service upgrades, etc. for a larger user base. Also, it is run on totally donated time and they rarely get back to any emails sent to them. It's more of a "hobby" over there than a love.

[virtualinsomnia]

Huh, that's interesting. It makes IJ look better in comparison, since they seem to be taking it a lot more seriously over there. Of course, if GJ wins by a huge margin, then it won't matter, I suppose, unless GJ people were willing to get an IJ acct. just for this comm. :-\

Thankfully, this is just a backup option right now. I'm holding out hope (however small) that this thing will settle down a bit, and we won't have to leave at all.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that I appreciate all of your communication with us, the way you've kept us updated and asked our opinions. Thank you, mod.

[virtualinsomnia]

Wow, thanks! I'm glad to know people appreciate all the posts! I was actually a little afraid people might feel like they were being spammed with too much info.

[ceslas.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you have been watching other lj'ers blogs, but this one was one of the more down to earth responses,and I tend to agree with her points: http://hannasus.livejournal.com/106024.html
So, yeah... well anyways. Whatever you decide to do will be fine by me, just wanted you to have more information to... collate >;0)

[virtualinsomnia]

Like I said, I'm not planning to move any time soon (hopefully), it's just a backup plan for if the worst happens. It's true that we will be in the same precarious position on any other journaling service, which is why I wouldn't dream of moving unless my hand is forced.

Thanks for the info, though! I hadn't seen that post in particular, and it was quite informative.

[ceslas.livejournal.com]

There is a link to another post in the first comment of the link I sent you that I highly recommend as well. It has value for informational purposes and it is nice to see less, shall we say, energetic, responses to the whole kerfuffle. I am a pragmatist onmany things- this is one of them. I have done no wrong other than the obvious illegality of fanfic as a whole, beyond that I am not culpable and I trend towards thinking that is true of most of us.

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

I prefer GJ for my own purposes, but I have GJ, IJ and JF accounts. If you aren't planning on posting the archive there yet, it might be worth trying to get the name at more than one site. Then you could see where the majority of people from the fandom end up should migration occur.

[virtualinsomnia]

I actually had the same idea, lol. I just reserved ff_fanfic at both GJ and IJ. I haven't done it on JF yet because I think I'd need to go through a paid member (or pay myself) to get it done there.

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Great minds and all that! *g* Will friend the comm at both places just in case.