I’ve never had much reason to leave LiveJournal. I like it here, more so than other blogging services.
Now I think I have a damn good reason to.
It’s making me think even more about setting a blog up on Walking Contradiction. I wanted to wait until I’d bought my own domain before trying to figure out WordPress and setting up over there. But I don’t think I want to be using a service that has an owner that treats its users with little more than contempt. Strikethrough, anyone?
I’m going to give myself a week to decide whether or not I want to remain on LiveJournal. In the meantime, I’m going to start downloading my journal to my hard drive – I found a synchronising tool that I’m going to install – in preparation for creating an archive on my site. And I’m going to be participating in Friday’s boycott. It may or may not make much of an impact, but hopefully it’ll let SUP know that we as users aren’t going to take this lying down.
ETA (18:19): In case I do end up leaving LiveJournal, I’ve signed up at WordPress.com and am migrating the entries from this journal (and possibly my NaNo journals too) over to it in preparation for a possible shift in residence. My new blog can be found here: http://mydecember84.wordpress.com. I will retain this journal, just in case ownership changes hands for the better, but should I choose to move my base of operations this journal will no longer be updated.
I’ve been following this disaster since the weekend, and I think it’s pretty fucking ridiculous. I loved LiveJournal way back in the day, but this isn’t the LiveJournal I signed up for. I’m not deleting my account, and I’ll be the first one to come back if someone else buys the site, but I’m not going to keep using it as it stands. I’ve had enough.