When I was looking for BL alternatives, I kept finding posts with lists of sites that are now either dead or nearly so. I wasn't on Leafmarks, but the loss of another bookish site is sad.
I am so sorry to see it shut down. It sprung up deliberately for all us exiting goodreads installing privacy, control and all kinds of features we wanted, features we had continually requested of goodreads, had promised lots of exciting ones ... then stalled. Emily departed with no explanation ages ago, even the influx of Shelfarians didn't reinvigorate.
Sad it went because it really was the most promising. But, for almost a year now I have been getting angrier and angrier at the absence of staff activity and updates and communications.
Yes, of all the sites that opened up as options back then, it had by *far* the greatest promise. I suppose it just got too much for Jacqui to keep it up and running essentially all by herself ...
I feel so bad for the new flux of Shelfarians who just got to LM a few months ago. To lose two bookish sites in the span of six months would make me want to go back to a notebook and pen and log my books that way.
Me, too. Plus when Shelfarians came she'd been inactive for months but returned briefly to fix an import bug when overloaded by Sh. imports -- if considering closing shop, it would have been kinder to tell them so rather than working on their imports and ts librarians scrambling to help with their book data,
Sad to hear! I felt like it didn't really get off the ground - I posted all my reviews there when the GR censorship trouble started but was never active - but it would have been a great site if it had had more investment. I guess all of us who weren't active on the site are to blame as much as anyone else. But I second the wish that she'd asked for help.
Sad it went because it really was the most promising. But, for almost a year now I have been getting angrier and angrier at the absence of staff activity and updates and communications.