# Dang...LiveJournal is down **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863 "2005-01-15T14:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/21 "2005-01-15T19:40:11Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > Oy . . . this _would_ happen just after I clicked the reply button. So, it’s your fault? I have no update. There was something about a chocolate starfish, but ehh. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/22 "2005-01-15T19:54:07Z")
My iced tea maker started working again. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/23 "2005-01-15T19:58:43Z")
This is too funny. It’s like it’s opposite day. Complaints on the SDMB about LiveJournal being down? I NEVER thought that would happen. It’s usually vice-versa. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/24 "2005-01-15T20:18:08Z")
On the plus side, maybe people will discover each other’s journals when it does come back online. Though that could be a negative, too… ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/25 "2005-01-15T20:26:41Z")
Is anyone else being completely irrational about this whole LJ-powerloss thing? I keep thinking that my FLIST is getting longer, and longer, and longer… ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/26 "2005-01-15T20:28:25Z")
I didn’t have much to post last night, nothing anyone wants to read anyway… but my friend’s list has been jumping lately with some of the groups I joined and I miss them already ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/27 "2005-01-15T20:39:00Z")
My birthday present to myself came last night and I so wanted to post the pictures that I took. I’ve turned into a camera-happy weirdo! ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/28 "2005-01-15T20:47:01Z")
> [@NotWithoutRage](#): > > Is anyone else being completely irrational about this whole LJ-powerloss thing? I keep thinking that my FLIST is getting longer, and longer, and longer… Worse, I’m looking FORWARD to the long friends list to catch up on. Imagine my pain when it finally does come up and… nothing! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/29 "2005-01-15T20:55:50Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **GingerOfTheNorth** _ > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by **Cajun Man** _ > > > > Oy . . . this _would_ happen just after I clicked the reply button. > > So, it’s your fault? Nah . . . it’s **imthjckaz** ’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/30 "2005-01-15T20:56:35Z")
Here’s an example of how much I miss LJ (which is the same as listening to the sound of your own voice) and what a camera-happy weirdo I’ve become: I just checked because I wanted to make this entry: Me and the boy are leaving to get in the train and go 2 stops to Smith & 9th street just to take pictures from the top of the highest train station in the world. I’m always here on the Dope but LJ let’s me be me. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/31 "2005-01-15T21:02:46Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m always here on the Dope but LJ let’s me be me. Ditto. In my case, most of my IRL friends are scattered around the US and Canada, and my personal LJ is the main way we all socialize/communicate/keep up with each other, so it feels like I’ve suddenly been cut off from everyone except a few locals. It’s almost as bad as when my DSL just goes down. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/32 "2005-01-15T21:10:05Z")
> [@imthjckaz](#): > > Even though I don’t update as often as I’d like, I am at LJ more than I am here. > > During _The Winter of Our Missed Content_, I was really active here. > And when things were fixed and the Dope came back, over 200 posts of mine had disappeared. > > And they were good ones. > > No, really. Boy, what are the odds? The only good posts you’ve made, and they get lost… 😛 I made an entry last night, it went through(using the Semagic client), and then I opened my friends page-and LJ was down. I may have made the post that broke the journal’s back! ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/33 "2005-01-15T21:25:28Z")
I was going to post pictures of my rats on LJ. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/34 "2005-01-15T21:34:00Z")
I’m gonna have to subscribe to this thread, so I can have something to replace my comment notification emails. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/35 "2005-01-15T21:39:23Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > Worse, I’m looking FORWARD to the long friends list to catch up on. Imagine my pain when it finally does come up and… nothing! It’ll be balanced out by the dozens of entries saying “YAY!!! LJ’s back!!” though. So you’ll have \*something \*to read. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/36 "2005-01-15T21:45:01Z")
> [@Geobabe](#): > > I’m gonna have to subscribe to this thread, so I can have something to replace my comment notification emails. Can you tell us who is facing the Police in Round 7? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/37 "2005-01-15T21:59:30Z")
> [@CuriousCanuck](#): > > Can you tell us who is facing the Police in Round 7? Hmmmmmmm. I’m gonna go with The Beatles - Revolver (lotta Beatles albums got nominated). Unless I change my mind. I’m wacky like that. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/38 "2005-01-15T22:02:12Z")
> [@Geobabe](#): > > Hmmmmmmm. I’m gonna go with The Beatles - Revolver (lotta Beatles albums got nominated). Unless I change my mind. I’m wacky like that. Interesting choice. How many nominations did you get total? ---
**Author:** ![Papaveraceae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Papaveraceae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papaveraceae)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/39 "2005-01-15T22:04:35Z")
A broken LJ does not make this girl very happy, no sir. I was over at a friends house late last night after finally getting out of a doctors’ appointment and then having to be at work. I was going to update about the dr’s appointment and … Broken LJ message. Waaaaaaaaa!!! _pathetic sobs_ The people on my FL know that I’m hopelessly addicted to my LJ. (it’s under the same user name, btw) Oh well…I’m sure the LJ support folks are working hard at getting the whole thing up. I am worried about the viability of all the content being there, though. Patience darlin’, patience. But, the good news that I was going to update about- on 11/02/04 my four year old daughter suffered a hemmorage in her good eye (she is blind in her left), causing her to go completely blind. I’ve been taking her to doctor’s appointment after doctor’s appointment over the last few months to see if there was any improvement- in cases like hers the blood tends to dissipate on it’s own. During the last appointment that we had the doctor told me that there was no improvement with her vision and that surgery at this point was a viable option. We were then scheduled for another appointment for a second opinion. After three hours of waiting yesterday we finally saw the doctor. After the exam he said that he could see part of her retina, meaning that the blood was _finally_ dissapating. No surgery, and another appointment to check up on further progress in a month. He also told me that once the blood starts clearing up they usually see rapid progress. _whew_ & _fingerscrossed_ & 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863/40 "2005-01-15T22:09:03Z")
Judging from the explanation about what’s wrong, can anyone hazard a guess how long it might take to fix? I am not addicted to LJ, I can quit anytime but if I don’t post about my lustful thoughts about Naveen Andrews soon I just might explode! (no I am not 15 years old) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dang-livejournal-is-down/284863.md?page=3)