Have you checked your DW & LJ friends list recently?

[thewayne]

I realized I hadn't heard from a couple of friends in some time, so I cruised my friends list. DW has this cool thing that shows you when they last posted - and they hadn't posted since JANUARY!

I sent them nudges, saying nothing more than I hope they're okay and hope to hear from them soon. And I heard back from one overnight, they'd installed a Microsoft update that clobbered their bookmarks and they weren't able to recover their DW credentials and had to start a new blog! The other two, nothing, but I just did this last night and not everyone is on every day like me and others.

I just hope they haven't become Covid casualties.

Comments

[dewline]

How do you do "nudges" via Dreamwidth?

[warriorsavant]

Computer viruses and biological viruses. Sigh I'm reading Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash," so am attuned to the theoretical inter-relation.

[moonhare]

“DW has this cool thing that shows you when they last posted…”

Yeah, LJ has that too, though I hadn’t looked in a while. What it showed were postings that I wasn’t included in (filtered).

[acelightning73]

I have gotten two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and I'm planning on getting a booster as soon as I can. I might get a flu shot at the same time. (I probably need to find out whether i need the pneumonia vaccine and/or the shingles vaccine.

[kathmandu]

I'm glad you heard back from at least one. These are worrying times. It's better if the answer is "Oh, I had a baby / nervous breakdown / cross-country move, and dropped off the net for a while."