The way you're saying it is really unpleasant, and for many people LJ has been down enough that for them blindfold did not go on, for others LJ hasn't been intermittent but completely gone for days.
However, in principle I think it would be really nice (but privilege, not right) if the mods of the two comms we've been worrying about most over here would consider a mirror/backup strategy for next rounds.
It would be great if the blindfold mods created a "in case of LJ outage/zombie apocalypse only" DW backup comm where they posted mod updates and/or where people could post fills (and repost the prompt they'd written it for) if LJ ever goes down again during a round. (Delicious would have to be better managed though, as someone(s) would need to be tagging DW as well as LJ fills.)
IIRC the spn j2 big bang mods have been very averse to anything other than LJ.
It would be great if they made a backup big bang DW comm for "in case of LJ outage/zombie apocalypse only" where they'd post mod announcements during an outage, and where during an LJ outage authors could post a backup masterpost with links to their story and the art at an off-LJ location (crossposting it to LJ once LJ was back up), but I don't know if they'd even want to consider that.
AFAIK, the AO3 Big Bang collection is an initiative set up by some readers (thank you if you're on meme!) without any official endorsement from the BB mods. So I think it's not listed anywhere on the BB LJ comm and many authors may not know they can post their BB to the collection. I <333 the AO3 collection (it's up and offers easy downloadable versions and kudos button, and lets me find many of the new and old BBs in one-page versions in one place), and hope all writers who already have AO3 accounts post their old and new BBs to it. And with the LJ outage, I hope more BB authors are getting AO3 accounts as fast as they can and will all post backup versions of their stories to the archive and collection.
AO3 doesn't host images yet which is a disadvantage for BB artists, but some writers have embedded images just as some would in their LJ story posts, using image URLs their artists have provided. And there are artists with AO3 accounts who do put up art posts on AO3 (they just have the images hosted offsite) which makes it easy for the story AO3 post and the story's art AO3 post to use the "works inspired by" button to crosslink to each other.
But these are "it would be really nice for eager readers if" hopes, not "all mods and writers should be doing this because my reading is more important than anything else" demands. ^__^
Re: Big Bang again
However, in principle I think it would be really nice (but privilege, not right) if the mods of the two comms we've been worrying about most over here would consider a mirror/backup strategy for next rounds.
It would be great if the blindfold mods created a "in case of LJ outage/zombie apocalypse only" DW backup comm where they posted mod updates and/or where people could post fills (and repost the prompt they'd written it for) if LJ ever goes down again during a round. (Delicious would have to be better managed though, as someone(s) would need to be tagging DW as well as LJ fills.)
IIRC the spn j2 big bang mods have been very averse to anything other than LJ.
It would be great if they made a backup big bang DW comm for "in case of LJ outage/zombie apocalypse only" where they'd post mod announcements during an outage, and where during an LJ outage authors could post a backup masterpost with links to their story and the art at an off-LJ location (crossposting it to LJ once LJ was back up), but I don't know if they'd even want to consider that.
AFAIK, the AO3 Big Bang collection is an initiative set up by some readers (thank you if you're on meme!) without any official endorsement from the BB mods. So I think it's not listed anywhere on the BB LJ comm and many authors may not know they can post their BB to the collection. I <333 the AO3 collection (it's up and offers easy downloadable versions and kudos button, and lets me find many of the new and old BBs in one-page versions in one place), and hope all writers who already have AO3 accounts post their old and new BBs to it. And with the LJ outage, I hope more BB authors are getting AO3 accounts as fast as they can and will all post backup versions of their stories to the archive and collection.
AO3 doesn't host images yet which is a disadvantage for BB artists, but some writers have embedded images just as some would in their LJ story posts, using image URLs their artists have provided. And there are artists with AO3 accounts who do put up art posts on AO3 (they just have the images hosted offsite) which makes it easy for the story AO3 post and the story's art AO3 post to use the "works inspired by" button to crosslink to each other.
But these are "it would be really nice for eager readers if" hopes, not "all mods and writers should be doing this because my reading is more important than anything else" demands. ^__^