OMG get off my lawn (except not)

[lyssie]

YOU GUYS. Havoc was talking about newbs in fandom and their incessant need to believe they've done something first and that LJ is 'ye olden days' and such -

And someone in her comments mentioned OTL. And I went "I wonder if Topica still exists" and it does.

And my login still works.

And it is entirely fitting that DarkMark is spamming OTL with an invite to LinkedIn.

(and, like, two of you will care, but whatever).

No one has posted fic to OTL since 2009. I don't know how to feel about that (I mean, yeah, OutsideTheLines and mailing lists are a bit obsolete in general, but those were the days, y'know). LJ and Twitter and Facebook and Myspace and half a dozen other things (message boards becoming more functional and interactive) killed mailing lists. I think.

Maybe.

Also, the days of the personal archive are long past, everyone uses bit multi-purpose archives like Ff'net and AO3 and some that I probably don't even know.

Mostly, though, my OTL password is still the most ridiculous thing ever (I even said "I bet it's still this" and it was).

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I am having a giant fit of nostalgia right now!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*flaps hands* I still am, to some extent (it is so tempting to dig something out and post it)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

aw topica! i had an account there!
... for something. Maybe otl? I can't even remember...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

lists.topica.com I'd forgotten all the lists i was on there. I'd even created one of my own.

[thisbluespirit]

It's always especially weird when people say LJ is dead, they went back there, and yep, totally dead, and I have a moment of panicked disconnect, because you know it was alive when I was on it two minutes ago! A little quieter, but definitely not dead and buried, thank you people.

(I used to be on usenet when I was at uni, but I had a long period of no internet access at home after that, so by the time I got back it was 2007 and I went from alt.drwho.creative to those places and skipped all the intervening stages.) I've used some forums, though. I still like forums for some things - not so much fannish, I think LJ works far better for that in so many ways, but for non-fannish things, especially where you want questions answered - starting up a thread works well and feels more detached than an LJ post.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I know. It's a lot quieter (sometimes, I miss the days where if I went away to a con I'd return and be unable to read all of the posts accumulated because it only went to skip=200 or whatever). But it's still here!

I think I post more random things on Twitter these days, since I can get there from work.

But I still prefer LJ (dreamwidth) to every platform. I just find it works better for me.

I do miss old-timey message boards, though. I dislike having to have a login for every place I venture. Being able to post under any name was one of the highlights (ok, so it was best used for round robining. But still).