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UPDATE: Artists Beware Closing Date

  • Jan. 9th, 2019 at 6:58 PM
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artists_bewareoceandezignz
Howdy guys!

The time has come to say "Goodbye" to Artists Beware on LiveJournal. When Cel opened the website for people to look at you all jumped in with gusto using it! This is great!

Artists Beware will be turning off on LJ on January 31st, 2019.


What does this mean for you? It means that you should get over to artistsbeware.info asap to sign up to the new site if you have not already. Entries here will be locked for commenting, we won't be accepting submissions, etc. Full shut down.

We will NOT be deleting the community, nor the DreamWidth mirror; it'll stand here as additional reference because while we are archiving a large majority of the comm to the website; not everything is making the transition over.

Onward and upward, upward and onward!

a drawing of a cartoonish alpaca waving at the screen with one hand and a suitcase in the other hand, saying 'onward to the new site!'

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bornesb
Jan. 10th, 2019 03:00 am (UTC)
Holy crap that is so soon! I thought we had a little more time...
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celestinaketzia
Jan. 10th, 2019 03:15 am (UTC)
Now you know why I've been harassing you on discord so much ahahahaha
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dinogrrl
Jan. 10th, 2019 03:05 am (UTC)
Got to sign up on the new site, I keep forgetting! It's been real, LJ folks! See you around!


(Jan 31st 2019? :p happy new year!)
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haru_totetsu
Jan. 10th, 2019 04:14 am (UTC)
I think the only thing that worries me is that this live journal community & the DreamWidth mirror will start to be ignored and the old bewares that made people treat artists with caution (even those marked as resolved) will not get that warning as easily and thus people start to get tricked by those artists again, if their bewares aren't transitioned over.

Which brings me onto a question; how far back are the transitions going?
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celestinaketzia
Jan. 10th, 2019 04:23 am (UTC)
We are archiving every valid beware, and there is a separate section for archives on the site. :) Tags from the archives will still appear in thr search results.
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oceandezignz
Jan. 10th, 2019 04:26 am (UTC)
Well that was going to occur when we moved regardless in a sense. And Google picks up quite a few of these LiveJournal posts so in a way they're not going to die unless those who have bewares trump the rankings system for Google.

We're going back as far as we need to that follows the current template or is a big time beware. The further back you go the more we saw really wacky posts that older staff (me included we perfected our submissions guidelines, still are really) accepted and they don't have a place in the new site.

The closer to 2018 we get the more posts from LJ will be ported over as these are better written, etc.
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feather_dancer
Jan. 10th, 2019 10:01 am (UTC)
Just popping in and trying to remember my livejournal account in because, that artwork is ADORABLE. What a lovely way to do a send off for here.
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oceandezignz
Jan. 12th, 2019 05:11 am (UTC)
Awwww thank you! You'll see more of this widdle alpaca on the new site very soon!
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fix_the_spade
Jan. 10th, 2019 08:23 pm (UTC)
AB is literally the last active feed on my Livejournal, this happening feels like the end of an era.

See you on the new site :)
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slinkslowdown
Jan. 11th, 2019 05:33 am (UTC)
I tried for about 20 minutes to register an account and nothing would happen when I was hitting the register button after filling out the info--username, password, email, etc. No error messages were coming up.

It FINALLY let me register by linking my Twitter account instead, which I really didn't want to do.
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keeperofdreams
Jan. 12th, 2019 10:10 am (UTC)
I'll miss this place.
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