This made me smile. I love livejournal and used to follow people in the days where it was still payed-only and I could not get an account. I travelled to UK and met with LJ friends about 12 years...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-639731
I read this essay when it came out last year, and I read it again when it popped up on my Facebook feed. Livejournal really did matter. My thanks to the author for getting this across.
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-609083
I started on LJ after college, because many of my MUX friend were using it, and some of my SCA friends, then I searched for other SCAdians, and a few of those that I timidly followed have become ...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-608867
This is SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN! I literally started tearing while reading. It's absolutely perfect. Come back to livejournal!! (And let's be friends!) There are still lots of us there, we're just...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-606942
LJ (and its clone, DreamWidth, which I use as mirror sites of each other for backup purposes) is still my blogging platform of choice. I use Facebook, but not for anything important or personal b...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-604664
I read LiveJournal once or twice a day, every day, but I rarely post. Facebook is immediate, so I write down random thoughts and share posts there. From telling alt.callahans everything on my min...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-604338
Lindsey Markel. I'm thrilled to have found you and thrilled that you still write. Fifteen years ago during long spells of depression, I would spend hours reading strangers' LiveJournals, and your...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-463940
Thank you for this posting. Love the quote from Rilk: “If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its ...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-462218
Love the way you stated it: "writing on the internet did not feel like as much of a performance back then as it does now." I miss the simple LJ days.
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-462216
I am late to this, but you can hack it a little to get older entries. If you go to /friends/yyyy/mm/dd (like /friends/2015/05/21) you can get the entries for that day. This may only work on some ...
https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/in-celebration-old-school-livejournal/#comment-461158