Why I Left Live Journal

Once upon a time I joined the forum site Livejournal.com. And for a while all was well. But the more bells and whistles they added, the more my poor dialup system would crash. I'd get about 3 pages into it, and I'd have to reboot. Some of my communities took off, and I wasn't very good at maintaining or moderating them because of my computer issues.

So I appointed some helpers and basically stayed away, hoping some day things would get better.

Well, I got an email today saying the background on my busiest community had crashed.

It was nice to get a heads up because back when I started the communities, half of them had custom backgrounds parked on a hosting side called Picture Trails. Well, I am guessing my account expired from lack of use, and all my backgrounds went bye-bye.

The other computer in the house has just added DSL. I wanted it on my computer too, but found out the router would be $100. But if I borrow the other computer, I can start enjoying Live Journal again.

I deleted about 10 of my communities because they hadn't had a post in 2 years.

But to my surprise, some of my communities thrived while I was gone. The Bookcrossing one is phenomenal.

So I thought I'd post some of them in case anyone on Hubpages would like to go see what I'm talking about.

And hopefully I've fixed all the backgrounds now.