A blank page. A forced reboot. sigh Last night I was devastated to find out that Open Diary shut down. Supposedly there was a notice back around the end of January that the site was shutting down. Where this supposed notice was I have no clue as I never saw it any of the times I logged into my diary back in January or even the 2 weeks following that supposed notice. Had I seen I would have downloaded my diary. I'm sorry but if you're putting an end to something like that...a site where you KNOW people poured their heart and souls into their entries then you give more than 2 weeks notice! You actually show you give a damn and make sure the notice is beyond obvious. Which it wasn't. I never once saw it on the homepage or anywhere.
Years gone. So many memories and words just gone. It's like losing a piece of me. I've seen some people who don't seem to care and that baffles me. Having put so much time and energy into what I wrote....it hurts to lose it all. I poured my heart and soul into those entries, told secrets that I had shared nowhere else and now it's just gone. There's friends I made on there and now I have no way to contact them. I'm kicking myself for not having made the effort to connect with them outside of Open Diary. I can only hope some of them stumble onto this site and find my diary. It sucks because Open Diary had been there for so many years of my life, through so many rough times. It was my saving grace to deal with depression, to push through and have some place to let things out. I had trouble sleeping last night because my mind just kept thinking of everything I had gone through and written about in there. I kept thinking of the friends I cared about, that I looked forward to reading their updates and seeing how life was going for them. Gone. Remembering letters I had written in my diary to people I couldn't talk to anymore, words I couldn't say to those people, words that helped just to put them down into written words.
All I can think is you truly have to be a heartless prick to run a site like that, to KNOW how much people cared about what they wrote and to shut it down that quickly. So either the owner KNEW they were going to shut down the site for a long time and just didn't give a damn to give people more notice or it was a spur of the moment decision which is just as bad. The irony was dealing with this was even worse because I lost that place to run to vent. I had no diary to go to in order to write about how much it sucked losing the diary. Irony at its finest. I drifted here after seeing comments on a few pages about how some members of OD drifted here. So I can only hope people I knew drifted here. Nothing Assumed, Raven E, LegallyGay80 (Sorry Chris but I can't remember the spelling of your diary's name that you last changed it to)...I can only hope you all drifted here and that you find me here. If not....I can only hope life goes well for you all. Sadly my mind is drawing blanks on other diaries that I read but if you find me...yes this is the same QuietDragon from Open Diary.
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