Moving On

I’m sad that OD has decided to pull the plug again.  I think it is funny how my account was charged for another year subscription less than a week before the announcement was posted.  I’m not angry, as I have been a supporter of this community for decades but I do feel kind of scammed though.

Diarymaster; “I don’t feel like running the site anymore… well better charge those credit cards one more time before I tell everybody I’m jumping ship.”

I came here originally in the late 90’s and have supported the site as much as I could.  I started posting when when I had just turned 19, I’m now 45.  All things come to an end at some point or another.  It was a good run.

I read a lot of entries on this site over the years, but rarely commented.  I used to think I wrote for myself, but as time went on I realized I liked writing for others.  Not that many people read my stuff anyway… but it was more the thought that I was being heard.  I often feel like I am not.

Anyway if anybody cares, I am moving on over to Prosebox.net to continue my journey…same user ID:  Psychoactive.  I have no idea if that community is any good, I’m just following what many others seem to be doing.  If it sucks, well I may not last, but for now that is where I am headed.

I had already had a backup of all my entries over the years… a quarter century of writing (minus a few lost entries over the years).

I would like to thank Opendiary for creating this community, it has brought many people together and helped many people sort through their life struggles together.  It was one of the few places remaining from the long gone web 1.0 era.  … the era of the Internet that had character, substance and community.  When web 2.0 moved in, it ushered in a sanitized, soulless, corporate culture of greed on the web… where expressing yourself and being heard was no longer the priority… The new agenda of web 2.0 was profit.   The www is dead and the demise of OD is one more nail in that coffin.  You will be missed OD.