To stay or not to stay...

[spsn]

I've been reading these posts on the new user agreement thingy. Yes, it looks dodgy (heck I even read the better interpretation from Tumblr, not from here), and for a person whose part of her job is reading contracts, I have a really hard time understanding what the clauses in that agreement actually means, so this brings the question, should I stay in LJ, or move somewhere else?

I've been using LJ for a good around 7 years, not too long, but long enough to have enough posts that it'll cause a hazzle if I'm going to move (especially those with lots of caps). So, the huge question is if I want to move, where should I move? dreamwidth? wordpress? blogspot? tumblr (I still can't get used to using Tumblr especially to post things, and I hate using tags)?

I know I'm not that active anymore in posting stuffs (those takes so much time and nowadays I just don't have as much attention span as I used to have in making those posts. But, still it's just nice to see the old posts and reference to some old stuffs so I'd still want to keep those (memories, keepsakes, emotional attachments, yes those emo stuffs, you know the drill).

So, back to the question, to stay or not to stay...

Sigh...

Probably this is a way of telling me to get my shit together with my RL too...

Comments

[wonsraed]

It's a Russian based company with majority of it's users Russian so maybe they decided to prioritize their language?

I do think that it's a good thing to back up just in case something happens. LJ seems to be a place of politics in the Russian scene~

[spsn.livejournal.com]

yeah, i guess i need to start back-up-ing and cross posting, what i hate is doing back up for those posts with tons of images, I think I lost a few posts because dropbox screw up my account T__T.

[wonsraed]

I dont know a think about cross posting so good luck on that part. Have you decided where you're going?

[spsn.livejournal.com]

still not sure, I'm not a fan of blogspot, a little bit apprehensive with wordpress, not sure about any other platform, and never try dreamwidth. DW is the one that can direct crosspost with LJ, but i'd need to check it out first, so right now, not super sure. even if i back it up, i'd probably loose some of those episode postings... because I store 90% of the pics in LJ and I didn't backup (my mentality is i posted already so i delete it from my laptop)...

[tilmon.livejournal.com]

That's the trouble, that there's no simple way to back up the images. But mirroring posts to DW is easy and then, if you post from DW instead of LJ, you can even make the mirroring automatic. That said, I renewed my paid subscription with LJ again this year. Maybe next year, I won't, but since the US is no longer a beacon of privacy, will there be a difference?

[spsn.livejournal.com]

yes it is, it makes me think another whole blog thing.
I'm not using the paid subscription and I don't think I will unless I'm earning money from my blog LOL.

I don't think there'll be any difference even if it's under US law, coz now governments across the globe are looking for any loopholes for them to rip off more money from common people...

[wonsraed]

Ugh. That sounds like a lot of work!! LJ should have a feature where you can a quickly download all of your images.

[spsn.livejournal.com]

yes that'll be nice LOL.

in a way this makes me rethink on how I want to run my blog. It's been very quiet these days because I'm quite pre-occupied with RL stuffs.

definitely will post something when I decide where I'm going to head on... stay, not stay, change, whatever it will be haha...