Seriously considering a move

[brainofck]

I have put a lot of effort into Greatest Journal, where I am http://brainofck.greatestjournal.com. At the end of August, I made it mostly inward-looking and self-referencing. I need to fix up the new posts starting in September. But I just peeked over there.

No advertising.

100 free icons.

Fewer layouts for clods like me that don't create their own layouts.

But you know. A nice little place to pitch my tent.

I know a lot of people have gone to Insane Journal, but it is just FULL of advertising. Though I do have a journal there. http://brainofck.insanejournal.com.

If I decided to pull up the tent stakes, this is what I will do.

I will continue to announce new stories in the LJ communities, but I will link over to Greatest Journal.

I will post the same announcements here that I post in the LJ communities, so if you are a friend of this journal, you won't miss the porn.

But the porn will live over there.

And over there, I will post a linky back to LJ, in case you want to comment here instead of there.

I'm not sure I'm going to do it yet, but I am very seriously considering it.

The free 100 icons is almost enough to tempt me to move my RL journal, too. But I have a big friend base here, so probably will not. Though that attitude may change next year when Six Apart tries to get money from me again.

Anyway, gonna sleep on it a little. But yeah. I think there's a more than 50/50 chance that this last move by TPTB has made it so that I no longer care to be a tool of this corporation.

Comments

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

If and when there's an exodus of people to IJ or GJ, the people doing the complaining are just going to start complaining about content over there. Then those places will have to change their policies to something like LJ's. If you give a mouse a cookie...

It's business--and their business is to make money and cover their ass.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Possibly. But for now, there is no advertiser content on GJ, so they have nobody to please but themselves and their actual users.