Livejournal Update: State of the Goat-Punching

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Hi, folks. We know you've been waiting on news and discussion about Fandom High's future location and how we're going to work that out as a community. So have we, but it's been pretty scarce, and thus there hasn't been much to pass on before now. Livejournal has been exceptionally Livejournalish for the past month, even more so than usual, about not letting us know what's going on and when/if things will be changed.

Like we said back in the Open Forum, though, while we still hope we can stay with LJ, your admin critters don't want to be them, so we want to keep you up to date with what we've been doing and thinking.

We've been gathering as much LJ-based information as we can by tracking comments in the existing news and lj_releases posts, new posts in the changelog community, and also joining the Russian language beta, lj_ru_beta. Sadly there's a very limited amount of news we can glean from those last two, for technical reasons with changelog and language reasons with the other. (Huge, huge thanks to taseredagod for helping us post feedback there by translating it into Russian so the techs could understand it.)

We've also been keeping up on the changes made at Dreamwidth; we're happy to let you know that they've now set things up so that imported comments can be "claimed" and attached to the owner's Dreamwidth journal. So if a move does happen, you'll be able to fix all those Open ID comments in old threads, and automagically put the icons back so everything is pretty again. (As long as the player is still around to do that for their old/current character journals.)

In the OF, we said the plan was to announce a decision about LJ vs. Somewhere Else by February 19th, with a poll beforehand (unless things at LJ got so very fixed that staying seemed a foregone conclusion). We're still planning on a poll, and we're still not going anywhere if the majority of players vote to stay. We do, however, need to shift those dates a bit, due to some ( hopefully-good news. )

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? We're all ears. Except for Lainey, who's all toes.

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You have just under 28 hours as of the writing of this post to sign up for a roommate or the always-lovely RNG for our fabulous trip to Rio. That's 1659 minutes or 99540 seconds, people, so get crackin' on that!