Like, holy shit Livejournal EXODUS batman.

[moonvoice]

I hope the Dreamwidth servers aren't taking this too hard! Though for me - I haven't noticed any slowdowns.

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Comments

[ariestess]

Dayum!

[burningbright]

Some of that might be conflation due to the opening up of Dreamwidth accounts (the no-invite-code-needed thing), so a lot of it might be people making secondary accounts, RP accounts, etc... But even with that in mind it's still a huge jump!

[callistra]

What has Lj done??
0.0

[silverjackal]

It's amazing -- there are as many new journals in these last two days as there were over the entire Twit-Face debacle. Of course it remains to be seen if those journals are active and/or the people making them remain or go back to LJ (or go somewhere else entirely), but it's still quite the show.

[outlineofash]

Whoa! I've heard that DW is getting closer to the ability to import entire communities from LJ in addition to personal journals, too. It makes me wonder if there will be an additional spike, since I know some fandom coms remain on LJ just because they can't move all their content elsewhere.

Also, I'm looking over the raw data stats right now, and it's slightly fascinating to see spikes happen again and again over the years. Drives the point home how many times LJ has fucked over its user base. :/

[mdlbear]

Wow! That's pretty impressive.

[sidheblessed]

I wonder, if this max exodus continues, will LJ finally take notice? Nah. Knowing LJ they just think the people are leaving are "butt hurt" and keep doing their own thing.

[iamshadow]

Well, if they're having issues like me, they've likely got no other option. My non loading issue? yeah, not going away. I have had occasional blips of access - enough to post a few comments - but I just can't load LJ at all 95% of the time.

A site that has access and maybe 10% of your friends is better than one that has all of them but refuses to load.

[fire_my_spirit]

In my case, it was the lack of respect that finally pushed me over completely. Usability issues always get worked around eventually, but the guy in charge of all this has been openly mocking the people who have complained, and on public forums. It's that utter lack of professionalism that finally infuriated me enough to override all the last reasons I had to stay.

Hello again, by the way. o/

[fannyfae]

That is pretty darned impressive. However, given LJ staff's attitude about the whole fiasco, none of it is surprising. They are being indignant and unresponsive to the customer base. And as soon as Dreamwidth allows porting for communities, it is going to get even worse. I have no fewer than six that I am packing up and sending over here. One is slowly in progress, post by post.

In either case, LJ loses.

[hrafn]

I'm too lazy to do this work myself, but I am curious how the recent exodus compares to others.

At the moment, I've left commenting enabled on my xposts to LJ, but I'm seriously debating whether to leave them that way. The news posts have been addressing some of the usability problems with the new system, but have said NOTHING about fixing the problem with the new color scheme giving people headaches, migraines, and other seizure fun. And that's a level of awful that goes way beyond any other fuckup.