Discovered in a Livejournal

I've also made this post at Livejournal, but if you don't want to/can't respond there, please feel free to reply here instead.

I don't really want to make this post, but sadly I think the time has come. discoveredinalj is 17 years old now, and I am still amazed that it's carried on so long after cestus and I were chatting online across the world - her in Wales, me in Alaska - and worrying about whether anyone at all would want to play with us in the comm. *g*

Which perhaps makes it sound as if I'm about to wind up the comm, but I'm definitely not! We've come so far, it might be fun to try and make it to 20 years of discoveredinalj. *vbg* But...

...it probably hasn't escaped anyone's attention that there's a bit of a problem with Russia right now. I mean, there are problems all around the world at the moment, and any number of nasty regimes, but the problem in Russia involves direct aggression towards other countries, and Ukraine in particular, and it is the server host for Lj.

I don't believe in punishing the citizens of a country for what it's government is forcing them to do, and Russia is far from the only country with some serious issues when it comes to people's freedoms, so I don't see the need to run screaming away from Lj. However - as my paid-lj renewal approached, and the situation is still far from resolving, I had to think about this a bit more. In fact Lj has extended paid account time by a considerable amount, presumably in the hope that its users won't disappear, so it wouldn't technically be an issue to carry on hosting the annual Dialj Christmas/winter/Solstice/let-there-be-light calendar here (I need the extra picture space etc. that a paid account gives me to post the calendar/icons etc.) But of course I'm not the only person to take into consideration, and many people have moved off Livejournal when one issue or another has arisen.

So the question is: where should I post this year's Dialj Christmas/winter/Solstice/let-there-be-light calendar? It would be far too time-consuming to try and post in both places, so a choice needs to be made. I could continue posting on LJ, or I could post directly to the Dialj Dreamwidth mirror (I'd have to buy a paid account there, but I could manage that if I'm not paying Lj for a year). I like the Lj format, so I don't really want to look at other alternatives, but if you know of another forum that you think might be just perfect, please do suggest it.

I've posted a poll over at Discoveredinalj on Lj but Dw won't let me do that here, so please either go there to reply via the link above, or comment here on these options:
- carry on using Lj for the Dialj Christmas/winter/Solstice/let-there-be-light calendar
- post directly to Dw for the Dialj Christmas/winter/Solstice/let-there-be-light calendar
- something else that you suggest in the comments
- none of the above because it's time to wind up Dialj/you're not interested in either participating or reading

I make no promises about what will be done in the end, and of course there might not be enough people still interested in carrying on anyway, but I thought it would be a good idea to gather some thoughts and hopes and suggestions.... *g* Do feel free to comment about it generally below, as well as answering the poll.