Open Diary will go offline tonight at midnight ET

All good things……

Super sad. Goodbye, OD.

Many, many people’s lives have been incredibly enriched in a myriad of ways by being members of the OD community, myself included…..thank you for everything!

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

bye dm 🙁

It really will. Thank you Bruce for dreaming up the idea and making it happen. My life has been forever enriched thanks to Open Diary.

bye now.

🙁

Goodbye.

This is ****.. You don’t have to kill the site and everyone knows it. I have been your defender. Now I just feel betrayed.

Sad…. RIP OD. 🙁

Thanks for everything!

SELL IT TO SERIN.

Bruce, thank you for the 14 or so years. I will miss this site like I lost an old friend. May whatever you do now be awesome, productive, and bring you financial happiness. Monica

Adios, muchacho

Bruce, at this point, the only problem with OD is you!

I will miss this place greatly!! 🙁

🙁 I’ve been here what feels like forever.

Goodbye my friend.

Heartbroken 🙁

Farewell Open Diary!!! 🙁

please don’t do it!

Thanks for not giving us a reason, besides the fact that u just don’t give a flying f*ck anymore. Thanks for not even entertaining the idea of selling the site to those who have offered. You “care” you “love” this site yet YOU are the one killing it. YOU are responsible for the down fall. So farewell jerk

Thank you for 13 great years!!! *hugs*

</3. I didn’t need another reason to not write anymore, yet here it is. 15 yrs.

Everyone else can defended you, but I think you’re a prick for what you did to the community you created. **** you for hurting everyone.

Safe travels to you, DM, your family, and my fellow ODers. Mention this place if any one of you starts elsewhere, it would be a privilege to give a nod to fellow alumni out in the wilds. Be well, all.

Not with a bang, but a whimper. Congratulations, Mr. Diary Master, you have hurt and disappointed thousands of people who made OD their home. Open Diary has–for many years–taken on a life of its own, cared for and loved by so many of us. That you have the right to take it away on a whim is devastating. However, I’m sure you’ll sleep at night just fine.

Thanks for the memories. <3

Sell the website, otherwise a big **** you Bruce!

Thank you again Bruce. For ‘R’ and I, this place will always be close to our hearts.

Please sell, Bruce. I don’t know if it’s copyright issues that’s keeping you from it, or if it’s just your pride getting in the way of things, but you could’ve explained it to us a little better so we’re not all pissed off at you. Give up the site and surrender it to someone who will love it the way it deserves to be loved. We’re begging you!

Goodbye Open Diary. Thanks, Bruce, for 14 good years (well, 11 good years and 3 fairly sh*tty years, but who’s counting?)

Wishing you and all diarists in OD the best of luck in all endeavors. It has been wonderful here.

goodbye!

I am in denial!! So many good times. So many sad times. This place was a part of my life for 13 years. Goodbye to all.

Been here almost since the beginning. Met quite a few from OD in real life who’ve become best friends for life.Met my life partner and moved countries to be with her and shared our love story through our diaries. Lots of water under the bridge, lots of happy/sad/cherished memories to always treasure. At least you gave us a chance to download our diaries when you could have just killed it off in aflash without any explanations at all. I do wish you had offered it up for sale to someone who may have had an interest in developing it into a money making site instead of your abandoning it and losing money on it though. Wish you well in whatever you do from now on..as with all things, we here at OD will survive and continue on as always. Can’t describe how sad I am at its closing but, understand the need for you to do so. Best wishes.

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Thank you, and best of luck to you in the future. You did a great thing here.

So it goes.

Sighs. Thank you for the ride. You’re breaking the OD rules, though, shutting it down. lol 🙂 Best wishes to you and yours~

Goodbye Mr. DiaryMaster Thank you. This is heartbreaking. And Elvis has just left the building. ((((HUGS)))) much love ….. minnie58 signing off.

You are breaking our hearts.

Again, thank you. This site has been my lifeline since November 2000. You have done something life-changing here. I will be forever grateful. Good luck in your future endeavors. A pox on the nay-sayers.

Aloha nui loa… Member #3499… since February 21st, 1999… 3098 entries… 109,139 visitors to my site… This has been an incredible experience… Aloha oe…

I have no words other than goodbye. 🙁

Sorry, but creating a well-loved website is not a free pass to act like a dick. Nope.

This is like being evicted. I hate this.

Been real.

Lifetime member. I paid to support this site. You will never read this note. But you’ve betrayed us all. Because it wasn’t fun anymore. You’re a coward. Or stupid. Or both. Thanks for not keeping this site safe, selling it, or just getting the hell out of the way so someone else could run it. All of these worship notes are garbage.

This is heartbreaking, and the passion and anger in these notes just goes to show how powerful a community this was. I really wish something could have been done. I wish we’d had more notice. Thank you for OD, though. I just wish you had sold it before it was too late (or at least explained a bit more about what was going on). Again, I do hope your family is well.

Sad face.

I guess all good things must come to an end. I will miss this community.

So long, farewell, my OD!

::pours out a drink::

I think that you should know that some of us have noticed how easy it has been to log-on this last few weeks to update, and check on the diaries of our friends. That and being given notice to save our diaries and during a time when it has been running well has been a gift.

🙁

Goodbye!

I keep wanting to thank you. For my family, my friends… So many things. But all I can is thinker do is curse you out for this, for not selling, trying…whatever. So **** you Bruce!

**** you Bruce. Just **** you. Karma is a bitch and I hope she ****s you over. Peace Out Asshole…I’m not riding the suck your dick train. You should be ashamed of yourself. If you’d have given one single **** this site would be able to still maintain itself. Instead you chose to be a douche. Nope…not sucking your dick. Again….**** you.

I have never witness the public execution of a web site. I might just hang around till midnite and see how it’s done! *smiles* Hey, I’m Irish! Gots ta smile even when things are at their bleakish!

You couldn’t even give us the full TWO WEEKS after announcing the end on January 27th.

I’m really sad, and I don’t quite understand why it’s come to this. Thanks for 13 years.

And to think that I stopped paying for this in 2007. You were a dick before then, when you tried to scam me out of a double subscription payment, and mysteriously went MIA. But now words can’t describe the level of scum you’ve devolved into. Piss off and rot in Hell.

Sad. Day.

Goodbye Open Diary. You have brought me much pleasure. I, and many others, will miss you.

Bruce I really can’t believe you are doing this to the OD community. I believe and hope that EWS will have a better diary site than you ever dreamed of and we know the customer service will be excellent and he will not abandon us and neglect us and his site like you have done with OD. I hope you have nightmares and they follow you the rest of your life!

Doing this for my bestie…. DM, you’re a f**king as*hole!!

Thank you for getting me through some dark days. Thank you for the friends I found here. Best of luck in your future enceavors.

You didn’t need to do this. It didn’t have to end this way. I am so angry at you for how you have handled this. You didn’t even say you were sorry for the past few years of ****ty service, ****ty uptimes, ****ty site performance. You’re ABANDONING us all. Enjoy your “social media consulting” career asshole. If this is how you think an online community should be treated after 15 years of loyalty than I deeply pity the idiots who’ll hire you to advise on social media strategy. Go to hell.

https://www.prosebox.net/entry/71829/thanks-bruce/ – Overachiever (signed in as MJ…but she approves this message.)

Thank You for Open Diary. I sort of wish your sendoff to us, had been more explanatory, or personal. I have heard it is due to going into the red, for you. This is never good. But, we all thought, that it was technical failure, overcrowded site, etc.Yes, I am sure that’s a large part of it. I am so glad you made this site in the first place. I will MISS IT!I am thankful to EWS for his new site, ED

You are an ass.

Signing off? You signed off a long time ago. What a ****ing joke. You’ve made a ****ing joke out of something so many cherished. Karma… Karma.

Thanks Bruce, I’ve enjoyed it here. Good luck!

Thank you for OD.

This reminds me of when somebody has a perfectly good pet put down because they don’t want to pay the vet bill. And the person gets huffy when the neighbors offer to pay the vet bill. “It’s my pet and I can do what I want.” But the pet has relationships all up and down the street. Or in this case all over the world. It was a good thing when you started OD and it might feel likea good thing to stop it, but that’s an incredibly selfish and self-centered point of view.

Goodbye! Just wish it didn’t have to die off….so sad

Thanks for this place. It was great while it lasted. I am sad to see it end, but understand you have your reasons for ending it. Farewell & best wishes for the future!

Thank you. This place enriched me.

You know it didn’t have to go away in this way. There are many people who still love OD as much as they ever did. There are many who would put as much care into it as you used to but one day decided wasn’t worth it anymore. What would it have hurt to hand it off to someone? It wouldn’t have hurt at all. :/

Thank you The DiaryMaster and OD, we have written for more than 10 years and we really miss OD much.

So many memories… Goodbye, Open Diary. I will miss you.

I guess there’s no chance for an 11th hour stay of execution then, huh? Well, bye.

How much money did you leech last minute by not opening up options for download? Three bucks a pop adds up, glad I never paid you a cent

There’s a dick sucking train? Where?! How much?!

How much money did you leech last minute by not opening up options for download? Three bucks a pop adds up, glad I never paid you a cent

How much money did you leech last minute by not opening up options for download? Three bucks a pop adds up, glad I never paid you a cent!

I’m sorry to see all the negativity. Thank you for this space for the past 13 years and change.

I really hope that when this site goes dead, since the domain will still be active, there’ll be an open letter to those of us that come back explaining where things went wrong, or if nothing else, an apology for letting things slip through the cracks these last few years. Wishful thinking, I know, but I think you owe us that much, especially since we’ll have no way to respond anymore.

You have broken our hearts.

where was our last meal……

Thanks for everything. <3 m

4 minutes …farewell my old friend.

byeeeeeeeeeeeee

LAST!

I know nothing I can say now will change this, but I broke down in tear this evening when a friend messages me to let me know OD was closing. I started sobbing as I tried to download my 2245 entry diary and it looked like it wasn’t going to download. I paid for a lifetime membership so that I wouldn’t have to worry about my writing just up and disappearing on me, and had my friend not messaged me? 14 years of my writing would have vanished just because I haven’t check into the site for a while. The least you could have done would to have been to send out an email letting members know what as happening.

Wow, I’m getting cold chills right now. It was a sad night, but, Alas, the proverbial Phoenix is rising out of those precious ashes. If only I hadn’t deleted my OD, after downloading to a computer(mine) that crashed and burned with NO ashes left. But, who knew ? Thank you so much for the Phoenix!!!!!!!!!! :*)

Amen, and so glad you are raising this Phoenix from the ashes!! Kudos and bighugzzzz….! L