kathy_fraggle

I just saw a Reddit post saying Livejournal was going away. I was still getting email allerts, but I thought it was some kind of glitch, since when I logged in before it all seemed to be in another language and I thought the site had been hacked. I didn't know my language setting had just been changed somehow and I could just set it back! Anyway, I logged in now with the intention of looking back at some of my old posts, and I saw the last time I was really active here was more recent than I thought. We were living in the condo, ready to move here. I talked about Bob and everything! I also saw that some people here are still active. Oh, all those years I missed! I have missed this place, and knowing that it's being lost is sad. I know, there are tuns of places online where you can share your thoughts, either in short or long form, but there's just something special about this place, if only because of nostalgia. A lot of our lives were shared here! Even my own personal diary doesn't have nearly so much in it, nor did I ever write in it with such eagerness and diligence and dedication. Ah well, so much in my life has changed. If anyone happens to read this and is interested in keeping in touch online, I'm now on Mastodon, as well as Tumblr and Reddit. I wish I could talk more about what I'm doing, what I'm into, and what's happened to me over the years, but I'm afraid this is a goodbye post to LJ. Hopefully it'll turn out that I and that Reddit user are wrong, and LJ has a resurgence, but somehow I don't think so.