I was wondering about that... so maybe it's like an updated pen pal service for lonely people in Siberia. I've been opening another tab and googling as well... I was wondering why LJ couldn't find a particular journal but google could. Hope they fix it soon.
I doubt it gets "fixed". I don't believe the owners think it's broken. Realistically, when the Russians bought LJ the owners repurposed it as a social media platform for Russia, like Facebook--evidently facebook isn't accessible there. The vast majority of lj users now are Russian, and if you check your homepage you'll see things like "top posts" and buying tokens to put your lj higher in weekly ratings. It is definitely a status social media platform--the poster who gets the most "votes" wins kind of thing. LJ's owners have very little interest or investment in keeping US, UK, Canadian, European, or AUS users, much less fandoms, happy. We're a tiny minority of their membership.
They've changed formats and presentation to accomodate the new purpose. I'm just grateful they haven't changed more about LJ itself and made it even less accessible and workable for fannish folk like me.
So... I'm fairly new and had no idea Russia owned it, ha! Hope I didn't offend anyone, yikes! I couldn't decide between LJ and Dreamwidth and opened both - I just use DW for real life and keep my one and only fandom separate. Oh well. Google will have to suffice... WBM is not too shabby either :)
It's so inconvenient--I used to use it a lot, to find entries and comments I'd lost. It's useless now. Unless you want to friend those 3 journals they show.
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They've changed formats and presentation to accomodate the new purpose. I'm just grateful they haven't changed more about LJ itself and made it even less accessible and workable for fannish folk like me.
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Hey there!!
It's so inconvenient--I used to use it a lot, to find entries and comments I'd lost. It's useless now. Unless you want to friend those 3 journals they show.