Well, all this with LJ has got me thinking.

[conuly]

1. I really ought to update my interests.

2. I hope nobody minds that I randomly subscribed to them. If they do mind, I'm sure they'll tell me, at least.

3. I miss my formative internet homes. Not just LJ, but also Neopets in the good ol' days. *sniff* I hope the nieces have something as good, but somehow, I don't think the current big options are the same at all. (Then again, that's probably the nostalgia talking.)

3a. Specifically from LJ, I miss the communities, and not just fannish ones, thanks, but... mainstream ones? Or ones that had to do with fandom and not a specific media? But even if we could bring them back, it was the commenters that made those places, and we've all grown up and changed a lot. It wouldn't be the same. It's true, you can't ever go back to a time when you were happy.

3b. (Not that we particularly were happy, or are unhappy now, but again, that's the nostalgia talking.)

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[conuly]

I seem to recall spending a lot of time on customerssuck, mock_the_stupid, and metaquotes. Oh, and parenting101, which is funny because I'm not exactly a parent, but there was no "aunting and childcare 101", was there?

Soooo... apparently, mainstream means all the drama, but without the fannishness. But they were all pretty popular comms back in the day.

(Oh, and linguaphiles, which isn't mainstream anything.)

Edit: Oh, and feminist_rage, and asperger. We do have a asperger here, but it's not very active... and to be fair, I'm no longer in a "talk about autism all the time" stage of my life.

[miss_s_b]

Somebody has tried to migrate theladiesloos which is sort of a "girls place to talk" comm...

I recall customers suck with fondness too.

[conuly]

I should make a list.

[olivia_beige]

Seems like there were lots of amazing comms in the heyday of internet journalling. *wistful sigh*

[conuly]

Amazing may be stretching a point for some of them. Remember, this is all tinged by nostalgia.

But hey, we can definitely make some of them again! We just need to get people using them.