How safe is it online?

[vintagewitch]

So I keep wanting to do more journaling here but I have this wild paranoia somewhere in my brain that this website is going to crash and go away and I will lose all of my precious thoughts. 

I don't even know that anything I would post here is something that I would go back through again, but it's really important to me to have a record of things. It settles the archivist aspects of myself. But I also have a really hard time journaling longform due to chronic pain and hand cramping and it is so much easier for me to type. 

I've tried out Noteful, which is super cute and I do really like it, but it seems to be designed for use on a tablet, NOT a computer, and I don't have an iPad. I asked for one for Christmas for a variety of reasons and maybe I'll get one, maybe not. But right now because of being obsessed with journaling (it's one of my special interests) I'm actually journaling in three (or maybe four?) different places. I know that this often happens to me when I'm not super functional, but I am functioning pretty ok right now. Might be worth paying attention to, though. 

I don't have much more to share here, things are just plodding along as they were before. And if there is something bigger I've been keeping it a little more close to my chest.

 

Comments

[batrachian]

While it's true that there's no guarantee, I have twenty years of history here (counting the import from Old LJ), there's pretty solid export features, and, well. I trust DW to be around in another decade a lot more than I do any other content platform out there.

[vintagewitch]

I think what I love about it so much is that Dreamwidth is truly just a website that is fully based around a specific user experience. Like. They're NOT trying to be the trendy new thing, not integrating AI purposelessly into shit, not trying to be too fancy.

And honestly that might make it last the longest.

[batrachian]

We're the customer here, instead of the product; that's the major difference.

[vintagewitch]

Oh yes this makes so much sense.