# Fuckin' LiveJournal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939 "2005-02-25T22:27:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/1 "2005-02-25T22:27:42Z")
Fuck I’m mad. I just typed up a huge post in LJ about stuff that’s really been bothering me lately. It’s the first time in weeks I’ve had time to sit down and really think through what’s been giving me the shits, and type it all in … and LJ ate it! “The database is in read-only mode for maintenance. Please try again in several minutes”. What the fucking fuck! Fuck that gives me the all-time fucking shits! FUCK FUCK FUCK! And just because this is the pit: FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/2 "2005-02-25T22:34:02Z")
It’s been doing that to me a lot lately, and it’s pissing me off. ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/3 "2005-02-25T22:41:48Z")
You too? Glad I’m not the only one. It seems half the time I can’t log in because of that. It may have something to do with which server hosts your particular account, but that’s just a wild guess. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/4 "2005-02-25T22:45:20Z")
Is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/5 "2005-02-25T22:48:19Z")
And therein lies the beauty of an old-fashioned diary. They’re never locked down for maintenance. And if you lose the key, entry is an easy as a bobby pin. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/6 "2005-02-25T22:49:34Z")
You guys on the filetmignon server? They’ve been doing maintenence on there and warned free journals would have that problem. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/7 "2005-02-25T23:03:40Z")
Sounds like you need to start doing what i used to do on the Dope—before hitting “Submit,” i would copy the text of my post and paste it into Notebook or some other text editor. That way, if i got the dreaded white screen of death, i didn’t lose all my typing. Of course, now that i’ve switched to Firefox, this is no longer necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/8 "2005-02-25T23:15:41Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Sounds like you need to start doing what i used to do on the Dope—before hitting “Submit,” i would copy the text of my post and paste it into Notebook or some other text editor. That way, if i got the dreaded white screen of death, i didn’t lose all my typing. Funnily enough, I normally do that. But not this time. Fuckit. **Flutterby** , how do I find out what server my journal is on? As to the other poster who felt the need to somewhat smugly point out the beauty of an old-fashioned diary, I have three words for you: cut and paste. The whole point of my writing stuff down is to get my thoughts organised into some semblance of order. Writing stuff down on paper just doesn’t let me do that. Gah, maybe I’ll just go back to keeping my diary using Word. Max. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/9 "2005-02-25T23:19:11Z")
One of their server-cluster-thingies is messing up. [Link](http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenance/102387.html) My husband is having this issue, too. He can still post sporadically, though, so keep at it… ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/10 "2005-02-25T23:29:44Z")
> [@Maxxxie](#): > > Funnily enough, I normally do that. But not this time. Fuckit. If LiveJournal or other submission web pages eat your entries, you can often use the **Back** button in the browser to go back to text you just typed up. I’ve encountered the same problem you have with LJ a couple times recently, and this has saved me. ---
**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/11 "2005-02-26T00:12:21Z")
That’s happened to me before and it drives me absolutely bat shit crazy when I’ve spent an hour typing my thoughts out. When I lose those thoughts, new angry ones pop up and I forget what I was thinking about before that. Still, I hold no grudges against LJ. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/12 "2005-02-26T00:13:23Z")
It’s done that to me too. I find that LJ commonky does this “maintenance” bullshit around 10 PM, EST. The back button doesn’t work with me for some reason…the update page won’t even access because it’s in “read-only mode.” I make sure to copy and paste my post to Notepad before I attempt to submit it now. Nevertheless it IS really fuckin’ annoying. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/13 "2005-02-26T01:13:11Z")
> [@Maxxxie](#): > > **Flutterby** , how do I find out what server my journal is on? Log in, then go to [http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml](http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml). ---
**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:** [February 26, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/14 "2005-02-26T01:31:13Z")
This is why I always compose posts in my favourite text editor, then paste them into the update box when I’m done. I do the same for really long emails. Both my accounts are paid, and I haven’t had any problems. I think I’m on tbone (?) and filetmignon. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/15 "2005-02-26T01:41:30Z")
> [@Maxxxie](#): > > Gah, maybe I’ll just go back to keeping my diary using Word. > > Max. Good plan. Because you know, Word never crashes. :dubious: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/16 "2005-02-26T02:56:53Z")
Simple solution: Use the Semagic LJ client. It doesn’t erase your text until after it’s posted. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/17 "2005-02-26T03:08:49Z")
I also reccomend semagic. Plus it lets you autograb your music from your media player. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/18 "2005-02-26T03:29:18Z")
Well, over here in the madcow cluster, we’re back in business. Hope it propgates across the system quickly. Crisis averted. ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/19 "2005-02-26T08:01:09Z")
Yeh, I’ve used semagic before, and I think I might go back to it. Thanks to everyone who’s offered their commiserations 🙂 Max. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939/20 "2005-02-26T08:39:41Z")
I’ve been having the same problem all day. As far as I know I’m not on filetmignon, and I have a paid account. I may not cut and paste into a separate text editor, but I do copy it before I hit submit so I can re-paste it quickly if there’s a problem. Oddly I haven’t had that problem here on the Dope for a very long time. Esprix [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckin-livejournal/291939.md?page=2)