[Poll]: Where do we go from here?

[thefourthvine]

Okay, I've put this off long enough. (Hi, my name is TFV, and I'm totally change-phobic. I hold the regional title for hiding-head-in-sand, and am a certified expert in change denial. Need mentoring in the fine art of fearing change? I am here for you.)

Seems to me that, what with the ever-changing and quite confusing ToS on LJ, it's only reasonable for me to do something besides post all my content to LJ and just kind of hope I don't lose it. (Yes, I have backups, but not, at this time, a real offsite backup.) But, of course, I'm waffling on what I'm going to do. When in doubt, poll!

Also, every day I'm seeing deletions and departure notices, and I kind of want to figure out where everyone is going before you're all, you know, gone. I realize I'm too late to catch the first wave of LJ departures, so if any of you cross-post or do newsletter things or also journal on another service, I'd really appreciate a link. (This isn't just for people on my friends list, by the way. There are journals I read that I don't have friended, after all.) So, again, a poll seems like a good way to collect information.

I know people who don't have LJ accounts anymore - as in, deleted or suspended - can't actually take the poll. In that case, feel free to answer whichever questions you choose (including, ideally, the location of your journal-type content and your fanworks) in the comments. Anonymous commenting is on. If you can't do that, either, then feel free to email me. I want to know where you are!

It's probably getting really boring seeing polls like this all over your friends list. I'm sorry. But I don't want to lose my content or my community, so - well, I'd really appreciate it if you'd take mine. (If it makes you grouchy, there's an option in the poll to tell me to just quit LJing. Feel free to use it!)



[Poll #1050367]

Comments

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

I'm of the personal opinion that if people want to read your blog, they're going to find a way to read your blog - off a feed, whatever - and that we all barely have enough time as it is, and I'd rather people spend their time creating actual content than making it breezily easy for someone to read their blog. I think it should be...earned! Yes. (More that, if they want to read you through a feed, it's totally easy to do so and it saves the annoyance of cross-posting.)

*wiggles fingers* If you do decide you wish to go the webhosting route, you're welcome to a subdomain on my site, if you'd like it. It comes with a one-click wordpress install that I could do for you - Pru, Eleveninches and I all have ones set up with much success and whatnot. Um, anyway. I give people a free year, and then after that it's divided up by however many people are on the site at the time, so never more than like, 20.00 a year for virtually unlimited space/bandwidth. It's good times. :D

Anyway, the option's there for you if you ever want it! *g*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Ooo, thank you! I have no idea if website with Wordpress is the direction I'm going, but I tell you, I am very very tempted. A home on the web! That would be very cool.

(More that, if they want to read you through a feed, it's totally easy to do so and it saves the annoyance of cross-posting.)

I figure cross-posting is going to be more of an annoyance for other people and a convenience for me; if I stay entirely on journal sites, it's the only way to have a decent offsite backup. (Okay, I mean, I have my hard drive in an offsite backup, but while LJarchive saves my posts, it doesn't allow me to do much with them, and LJSec is only of limited use. If I'm sticking to journals, an actual backup journal would be much handier. ...And, nice. Now I've typed "journal" so much it doesn't look like a real word. I win at repetition!)