[identity profile] ashinae.livejournal.com 2007-05-26 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Terribly, terribly alarmist sky-is-falling stuff. I didn't believe it when I saw it; I am very used to LJ being wonky since I've had my journal for five years now (just double-checked that; my 5-year LJ birthday came and went on the 18th).

Also: "chan" is a manga/anime fandom word for underage fics/art.

[identity profile] sol-se.livejournal.com 2007-05-26 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, ok. The way they singled that word out, I was expecting it to mean something way out there. Five years? Wow. You're like a LJ veteran!

[identity profile] ashinae.livejournal.com 2007-05-26 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, an LJ veteran! Yeah, I've been around a long time; fannishly involved for 7 years, too. I remember the days of going through archives for fanfic, rather than comms, and talking to people on mailing lists, rather than journals. Of course, that didn't last very long before everything sort of migrated to the journal system, so it doesn't make me feel too terribly old. ;)

[identity profile] sol-se.livejournal.com 2007-05-26 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I remember doing all that too. I was just a very late-comer to LJ. I resisted it for a long time. I'm not sure why. Ah, the good old days of yahoo mailing lists & fanfic archives. Of course, someone's going to pop up any second now telling us all about the good old days of 'zine only fic and snail mail. *g*