Ramblings, Bear With, etc

[meridian_rose]

I'll (probably) make a proper Christmas round-up/New Year stuff post at some point. For now I'm frustrated with LJ being all but inaccessible for two days now. I managed to make my New Year post (and trying to crosspost this) but not to reply to all the comments yet – and there might be more comments if LJ was up, because I've got notifications for three new year posts that I haven't been able to visit and comment at yet. Plus there's a ton of Legendland bingo goodies that I haven't been able to look at and comment on yet as well as other posts and fic that I want to read. So, bear with! I'll get to reading/commenting/replying soon :)

With all the downtime/varnish errors and spambots that have been plaguing LJ this week, an easy resolution is to use Dreamwidth more. I'd encourage other people with both LJ and DW accounts to do the same. Here's a few simple ideas.
Crosspost more.
If a fest is being run at both comms (such as hurt/comfort bingo is), sign up at DW.
If a comm. is mirrored at DW, watch it – it will give you access when LJ is down, and if the comm moves to DW completely you'll already be subscribed.
Leave more comments directly at DW entries that are crossposted to LJ (yes, they're easily imported, but it moves traffic stats to DW as a show of good faith/bad faith in LJ, and gets you used to reading more at DW).

I'm already behind on the DW Snowflake Fandom challenge but there's no real deadlines and I can catch up. In between trying to access LJ I've done real life stuff, including going for a walk and having family lunch including the taking of a few family holiday photos. So I've been having some fun. Hope everyone's having a good start to the year.

Comments

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear that honey! *Big Hugs*

It'll hopefully get fixed.

[meridian_rose]

I don't know if you'll get this reply, but as I can't reply at LJ, I'll give it a go! Thank you! HUGS! I'm looking forward to reading your fic once LJ is working again :)

[meridian_rose]

Thank you! Hugs! It's slow but I can access and reply to posts now, so fingers crossed LJ is fixed!

[dorothydeath]

I'm sorry to hear LJ's giving you such a hard time, bb!
*HUGS*

Hope things will get better soon!

Personally I haven't noticed anything because I haven't been around much lately. But I know how immensely irritating LJ can be so *HUGS MOAR*

Thanks for all the advice, bb! :D

Happy New Year! ♥♥♥

[meridian_rose]

It's some kind of maintenance issue and offical news is that it's still going to difficult/impossible to access for many users for a while. I'd be less frustrated if I could use DW more and reply to people's posts here! But when I do round up posts I always put DW links, because I know that those are most likely to be accessible :)

Thanks for leaving a comment here where I can reply to it! Hope you'll feel up to being around more soon. HUGS! And Happy New Year :D

[hrhrionastar.livejournal.com]

Either I haven't been on much or else LJ hasn't been giving me so much trouble this week - which probably means I'm tempting fate by saying so, of course.

I have been meaning to post to DW more. I guess I just have to actually do it. Now is a good time for fulfilling resolutions :)

Happy New Year!

[meridian_rose]

Thanks for the comment - I couldn't reply to it since it was here and not the DW post, but fingers crossed LJ seems to be mostly fixed now so I finally can! There's been some sort of DDos attack I think, along with maintenance and their usual breaking things; some people haven't been able to access LJ at all for four days according to reports on facebook and elsewhere, so maybe you got lucky :D

[hrhrionastar.livejournal.com]

I had trouble with LJ yesterday. I'm glad things seem more or less back to normal!