Besides the spoilerfree thing, a big part of my reasons for stopping the First's journal was that I couldn't keep up with the storylines the rest of the characters had going. I wasn't reading other people's journals (since I didn't want to subconsciously steal anything) but that kind of meant I couldn't bring any other characters into it (I wanted a runin between Andrew and the Harbingers at the Daredevil movie, for instance).

The people who write them are super-nice, particularly the Spike and Willow players, but like you I've defriended Hellmouth News. Maybe Spring Break will be a good excuse for me to go retroactive to the start of the season for the FE journal.