11.23.08
Posted in Links at 11:10 am by Pisces6
I forget exactly how I found this out, but apparently AOL took down all the hometown and member pages (and journals) on October 31, 2008. o_O; It doesn’t affect me a whole lot, but that means a few webpages I do know are probably gone forever unless the owners decide to re-upload them else where. What pages?
Well, there was Juuhachigou’s Place of Being for DBSZ. And the other for me was Jendra’s Crystal Keep, the author of Sailor Moon Universal. (A really old fanfic that’s probably dated at this point.) There may be more that I used to know, but these 2 are the ones I really remember. It’s probably because I was in touch with their creators (DBSZ is co-authored) at one point in my life.
I think the website for DBSZ may come back. However, I think Crystal Keep is gone forever. The author went MIA a long time ago, and I haven’t heard from her since. :/
I think some people are pissed. The webhosting came with people’s subscription to AOL as an ISP, so it makes you wonder why they aren’t bring the subscription price down when they aren’t doing web hosting anymore. Then again… /shrugs Could be AOL is in some sort of financial trouble. :|
Man, I hate it when websites I used to visit constantly go offline. Oh well, no such thing as a free lunch. :/
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03.15.08
Posted in Links, Rants at 3:13 pm by Pisces6
So, I had enough
bumbling from LiveJournal’s management. In retrospect, I may have been a bit hasty thinking about deleting my own LiveJournal since I decided in the end that it probably wasn’t in my best interest. I still like the features LiveJournal offers, however, I’m pretty disappointed with their management. This is why I decided to start this weblog for my public posts. Since I’m not too happy with LiveJournal, I might as well start posting my entries elsewhere. I’m not sure if it will be permanent or not, but it doesn’t hurt to try, right?
As WordPress is one of those One-Click installs offered by my web host (DreamHost), it was pretty easy to install. It was also a new experience for me since the only “installing” I do for websites is either at work or adding new programs to my computer. My websites were the plain static HTML with images kind until now. (Mostly because I’m lazy and I’m a relative newbie when it comes to learning PHP, MySQL, and all that fun stuff.)
Anyway, here are some links to other LiveJournal alternatives in case you don’t have your own domain and webspace:
Services that have an asterick (*) are places I already have an existing account. Movable Type and Vox are excluded simply because they are Six Apart products, and I do not intend to give money to Six Apart due to their treatment of LiveJournal. (Aka, use LiveJournal primarily to generate revenue rather than improving it so it may stand as its own product.) Call it a permanent bias much like the one I have against TokyoPop. :|
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