Welcome back!

Hey, thanks!

Ah, you forget about LJ, but LJ no forget about you, comrade.

Seriously, nice to see your post. A friend of ours wants to get into blogging, and asked if LJ was a good place to start. I had to tell him "well, about 10 years ago I would have said definitely, but so many people have moved on to places like Facebook, you'd probably do better with someplace like Wordpress or Bloglines."

I'd love to get a group of former USENET a.c. and kalbo folks together in some kind of discussion group - there seemed to be some interest in that in the a.c. 25th anniversary thread - but everyone's so spread across different social media platforms, I wouldn't even know where to start.

Heh.

Send your friend to Tumblr. That's where the kids are these days and the high energy sharing, resharing, quoting, meme blasting, etc.

As for a discussion group, that sounds fun! My suggestion would be to create it on all the major platforms (LJ, FB, Twitter, & Tumblr at least... maybe also Ello) and have them all point back to either (1) whichever allows comments without a login or (2) whichever has the greatest concentration of old-timers.

Hello again.

Hey there!