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| GJ gave me a moment of pure terror when I saw the red message flickering above my update page's search bar. I was going to make a nonchalant, speculative fiction post, but was broadsided by "IMPORTANT: GJ is currently running on a backup DB - we recommend using exporting journal and using insanejournal instead - more info". I fled to LJBook to try to make a PDF of my entries before the shit hit the fan, but LJBook glitched part way through. I soon realized why: when I went to my journal page, it was gone. There is no more intristic fear for a writer than believing your work has been destroyed. I checked the news bulletins and found half the GJ members angrily ranting about how shitty GJ has been for the last few months (namely, cutting important services and keeping redundant ones - without asking us first) and the other half thanking the staff for making a quick backup so we could save our journals and flee before everything went to hell in a handbasket. I checked my main page again and found my entries were back, so back I went to LJBook and made a PDF copy. Coming back here, I tried to make a Rich Text post but the site borked every time I tried anything more complicated than lower case letters. Thumbing back to my safe raw content editor, I commenced making this post. I think it needs to be said that I've pulled my last straw with GJ. I wasn't particularily irriated with the staff until I noticed that the only reason I came to GJ in the first place had vanished (our 1000 userpic limit), replaced with first a 100 icon limit and finally a ten icon limit. The staff said it was to cut down on the database overload, but users pointed out the useless GJ Pic feature, a copycat of LJ's somewhat useful Scrapbook system. That redundant feature stayed in place while the only good thing about GJ slowly dwindled. I suppose in the end, its not the staff's fault, its the system. There isn't much they can do about it. But since I'm leery about going back to LiveJournal, I don't want to migrate over to InsaneJournal (at least, not until I find out why GJ is pimping them so much) and I can't really function well with WordPress's format. Heaven forbid, I might have to go back to where it all started for me in the blog universe: BlogSpot. We'll see. At any rate, this will most likely be my last post in this journal. I'll lol like a madman if I check back in a year and the system is fine, and my journal is still here. Adios! I'll update if/when I switch journal providers. | ||||||||
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