I was a Day One user a couple of years ago, and I liked it, but then Day One 2 came out and they wanted extra money from me to upgrade, and I said, "nah." Now that they're doing subscriptions, I'm glad I jumped ship earlier.
Being an old-timer on the 'net (*waves her cane*), I've seen too many sites/apps/etc. come and go or change in undesirable fashions to put my forever-trust in the Internet or third party sites, even if I like the devs. They may have the best intentions, but businesses can fall apart. Some people say you should have your own hosting/domain for anything you want to keep, but I've seen the blog of deceased friend vanish forever because his parents didn't understand that you had to renew it and let it all lapse. (I found what I could on the Wayback Machine and sent it to them, but it was hardly the whole thing.) Furthermore, growing issues of Internet privacy kind of makes me want to keep my private thoughts offline, rather than storing them on a third party site. I recently deleted several years worth of brain dumping on 750words, for example.
So these days, I've reverted to doing most of my private journaling offline (pen and paper, although I think a text doc is a perfectly reasonable substitute for those who are more comfortable digitally, just keep it backed up offline, too), and I use DW for the more social bits--thoughts or events or photos I specifically want to share with others.
tl'dr I have lots of thoughts and emotions about journaling and journalling sites XD
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Date: 2017-06-30 09:04 am (UTC)Being an old-timer on the 'net (*waves her cane*), I've seen too many sites/apps/etc. come and go or change in undesirable fashions to put my forever-trust in the Internet or third party sites, even if I like the devs. They may have the best intentions, but businesses can fall apart. Some people say you should have your own hosting/domain for anything you want to keep, but I've seen the blog of deceased friend vanish forever because his parents didn't understand that you had to renew it and let it all lapse. (I found what I could on the Wayback Machine and sent it to them, but it was hardly the whole thing.) Furthermore, growing issues of Internet privacy kind of makes me want to keep my private thoughts offline, rather than storing them on a third party site. I recently deleted several years worth of brain dumping on 750words, for example.
So these days, I've reverted to doing most of my private journaling offline (pen and paper, although I think a text doc is a perfectly reasonable substitute for those who are more comfortable digitally, just keep it backed up offline, too), and I use DW for the more social bits--thoughts or events or photos I specifically want to share with others.
tl'dr I have lots of thoughts and emotions about journaling and journalling sites XD