I would like to thank everyone for their patience. The grand opening of our new site is finally here, and our community on Live Journal is no more.
If you would like to register here, you will find the appropriate instructions under Help/User Tips in the menu at the top of the page. As before, registration is free, and anonymous comments are still permitted.
As you look around the new site, you may be surprised to see many months of content, extending back to October of 2006. Yes, we have loaded in every single post from Live Journal, including the comments. So we are starting in this new location with almost 10,000 posts and over 300,000 comments. We have tried to make the site as seamless as possible; for example, if you click on the name of a current blogger, you will see every post by that blogger going back to their very first blog.
It certainly has been a long effort. We started working on this site in early March, and for the past two weeks the bloggers have been posting their blogs to both sites as the development team continued to work on the final touches. Our development team consisted of Johninterred, Starstruck_au, and me, with Jackkt as the lead tester.
We have tried to keep as many of the useful features of Live Journal as possible, as well as making the site look very similar to what we had before.
So how do you like our new site?
** Update** – I have sent email invitations to 548 addresses, and gotten back only 7 undeliverable messages, as well as 2 out-of-office replies.
Adding my thanks to all concerned – sterling service.
Well done. A very impressive site. Many thanks.