PSA: Livejournal's going offline.

[theweaselking]

No, really. They're shutting all the servers down and pulling the plugs.

Comments

[city-of-dis.livejournal.com]

Blah.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Great, now I'm going to have to start using Facebook for real.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Weasel's bein' a dick. It's just a server move.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

(And you're ruining the joke!)

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a joke? It just looked like one of those dick moves where someone provides incomplete or ambiguous information and then laughs at the recipient for assuming good faith.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Right, weasel tells everyone that everything is going to SHUT DOWN, and people in the comments help make it look real by overreacting, and then we all have a good laugh~

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not "laughs", but I find the occasional technically-true-but-misleading headline keeps people on their toes. Like when Patrick Stewart died and Stephen Harper was arrested for murdering his parents with an axe.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Stephen Harper was arrested for murdering his parents with an axe.

Man, if only that had been the right Stephen Harper.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Besides, it gives the rest of us a chance to try and determine what your headline ACTUALLY means before clicking to find out. :D I love puzzles.

I figured it was probably a server move, mind you. I think it had been mentioned previously.

[matgb]

Ambiguous but factually accurate text as part of a link tot he full story.

If you can't be arsed to follow a link about something you supposedly care enough about to be checking regularly, then your problem. Also, why read a linkblogger if you're not going to follow the links?

[kadath.livejournal.com]

'Cause I like to argue in his comments section.

[fearmeforiampink]

Plus, it's hardly the first time that he's done this sort of thing. You'd've thought people would be used to it by now...

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Until they plug it all back in, in a different location.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

I wonder. Years ago, I lost my email for over a week due to some error during some Yahoo server upgrade. I was one of an unlucky few, but that error message reminded me these things do have physical locations and is subject to human error. And sometimes a reboot reveals new bugs in hard or software.

Given how LJ has buggy days anyway, I don't have a lot of faith that something requiring a total shutdown for four hours is going to be glitch free.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I used to work with that guy. He's a fun coworker.

[frith]

I imagine he's got like ten things on the go at the same time.

[the-colombian.livejournal.com]

4 hours off of LJ for me? Not a big deal.

For you?


Well...where do I send flowers?

I yerf, you yerf, he yerfs, they yerf, we yerf, Yerf yerfed.

[frith]

LJ is going to Yerf! Last chance to back everything up!

[hoopajoop.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware of Montana's status as a hub of technological resources.

Put another way: Fuck cows. I eat cows. Cows better rekanize.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

It's entertaining how the comments are closed on that post. Poor tech people.

LJbook won't know what hit it tomorrow.

(...speaking of which, I think I should go back up my latest year as well.)

[agingcusahack.livejournal.com]

Montana?

*From* California *to* Montana?

What?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Montana is shockingly unlikely to fall into the pacific ocean.