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thefourthvine) wrote2007-09-05 12:52 am
thefourthvine) wrote2007-09-05 12:52 am
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[Poll]: Where do we go from here?
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]
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]
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I love your recs and it would please me greatly if you kept posting them to LJ, as I'll be staying on LJ for a while, but if you crossposted to various journal sites that would be fine too, and if you were to move to a blog-type thing I would just add your RSS feed to my blog reader.
Thank you! And my guess is that I'll be staying on LJ for a while, no matter what else I do. It's just, with the new linking policy - all I do is link. I don't think it's at all likely that I'll get into trouble, at least in the short term, but if the possibility is there I'd like to have a backup, you know?
I'm staying on LJ because I don't really think there is a better alternative - as GJ and IJ expand, they'll probably run into the same problems as LJ is dealing (badly) with right now.
I certainly expect this. (And, yes, I agree - there's no single better alternative right now; a flat-out move is unlikely to be my choice.) I mean, it took quite a while for trouble to find us on LJ, but anyone who truly wants to make trouble now knows exactly how to, so - yeah, I think IJ and GJ are likely have the same sorts of issues in the future. But I do think crossposting at least gives me a bit of redundancy, which is a kind of security. (Kind of annoying, too, for people who are following more than one list, but I assume they'll cut me in every place but one.)