| Why not leave the existing LJ comm as an "archive"? Because over the past few years there have been multiple actions taken by the current management of LiveJournal that has led to a fundamental level of distrust from the user base. Many users, particularly those in the fandom-oriented communities, would prefer not to leave their material to the tender mercies of LJ. Also, see Mikey's earlier missive about how this would serve to tear some existing comms apart bit by bit.
To be fair to LiveJournal, it is a private business, and as such it has the right (and many would argue, no small legal responsibility) to draw a line in the sand when it comes to what type of content it will allow to be stored/published using its service. Regardless of one's opinion as to where that line ought to be drawn, the way in which the various policy changes related to this ever-shifting line have been implemented has been abrupt, arbitrary, and opaque. Dreamwidth will no doubt face some of the same questions, but it is believed that they will do a much better and more transparent job of governance. A lot of folks are looking to Dreamwidth as the safe place to escape to from LJ, preferably in a smooth transition now rather than in a panic after the next policy shift that leaves a number of LJ users being treated like criminals whether they've done anything wrong or not. | No import necessary. No messy dealing with who owns the rights to what content. If new members join and want to look at old LJ posts, they can sign up | for "archive access" via OpenID. That's easier said than done for a lot of communities. If you're talking about, say, a community devoted to posting daily pictures of baby llamas, that's one thing. If you're talking about a community that maintains an archive of recipes and wants to use Dreamwidth's improved searching and tagging functions to better manage its existing content, then a split community doesn't serve that need. Thanks, Alexis Carpenter principia at Dreamwidth principia_coh at LiveJournal
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