fyi...

[rivendellrose]

I've deleted my LJ account. The new ToS bullshit was bothering me, the giant ads drove me nuts when I logged in, and it was time to admit that just having had an account for 14 years wasn't actually enough to make it worth keeping when the site was clearly going under.

So yeah. My fic is all (or very nearly all, at least) up on Ao3, I'll clean up the links in the sticky post for them later. I might even figure out how to upload my Neko-Chao kitty mood theme here someday, now. It never felt quite right here without them.

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[nenya_kanadka]

I went and deleted all my old entries there a while back. Might go euthanize the account as well soon (and should probably try to decide what to do with my old RP accounts while I'm at it). DW's been my home for a while, but it's still painful to cut all ties with LJ. At least the interface is seamless enough--despite hitches--that it still feels like "LiveJournal fandom" over here on DW. Damn, though. How the mighty have fallen, eh.

[rivendellrose]

The thing that put me over the edge was that when I tried to login to look at the new LJ ToS it, first off, said that the English translation wasn't legally binding and referred me to the Russian original which, hello, I cannot read, and then when I clicked "not now" took me straight to a logout page. Okay, if my options are "agree to the new ToS in a language I can't understand" or "logout," then yeah, I'm going to "agree" to that just long enough to find the "delete account" button, 'cause that's shady as fuck.

So yeah. The RP accounts that I really cared about got lost waaaaaaaay back when one of the other old journaling services went under, the one that was left on LJ I don't even remember the username for anymore, so I guess that's just abandoned.

How the mighty have fallen, indeed.

[nenya_kanadka]

the English translation wasn't legally binding and referred me to the Russian original

Holy shit!

That is not on.

[rivendellrose]

Yeah, very much not. That was the end of my "maybe it's not as bad as it looks" feeling.

[peartreealley]

The thing holding me back from deleting is the fic archive from the old Warmaker RPG that M ran, which I still visit every once and a while for warm fuzzies (and more in the last two years, as you might imagine). It's not just the stories I and the others wrote, but the comments.

I guess if other folks deleted theirs and it the archive went all Swiss cheese maybe I'd be more inclined to do the same, but I'm not going to be the one to start that process. *sigh*