Goodbye, LiveJournal

[rymenhild]

It's time to disconnect permanently from LiveJournal, after thirteen years. I thought about deleting my LJ, but I hate leaving broken links and lost archives. Realistically, I don't have a way to remove all of my data from LJ's servers. Deleting my journal would only make the data invisible to me while still existing in backups somewhere. What I'm going to do instead is end Dreamwidth crossposting and leave the rymenhild journal static where it is. I've hardly been writing at all lately, but if I do use a journaling site again, it will be Dreamwidth only, at rymenhild.

Strength to you all in this alarming New Year.

Comments

[newredshoes]

1) This is a good alternative to deletion, and I'm glad you suggested it, thank you. 2) "Alarming" is now my favorite way to describe what's ahead. Also thank you!

[angharad_gov]

leaving the lj journal static sounds like a good idea. i may do that w/ mine as well.

[taylweaver]

Thanks for the info/link on facebook. I guess I'll have to start checking Dreamwidth more regularly now. I've now backed up everything from LJ to here. The big question is, do I go in and manually delete all of my old LJ posts. (Or are you saying that they will still exist anyway.)