[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!)



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Comments

[bluemeridian]

It's still easiest for me to aggregate sources through my LJ flist, so even if you would wander off, I'd probably snatch an RSS feed and still view it on LJ.

The tops in RSS readers that I've found is FeedDemon, it's not free but it handles the large amount of feeds I'm running through it (to tag for a newsletter). I've yet to conquer the tricky 'reading of flocked posts' as I don't use an s1 journal style, so if you get any leads on that, I'd be forever grateful for a pointer in that direction!

Semagic is an object of worship. Or should be. Whatever.

Wall-to-wall caribou for the win!!!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

It's still easiest for me to aggregate sources through my LJ flist, so even if you would wander off, I'd probably snatch an RSS feed and still view it on LJ.

Me, too, which is why I'm not likely to leave LJ, at least not until I figure out the aggregate feeders. I hear rumors of means of managing to get into locked posts via feeds; I will try them out and let you know.

Semagic is an object of worship.

You know, I wasn't all that thrilled with Semagic when I first started using it, but now - now I love it greatly and cannot imagine how I managed to post through the LJ interface all the time.

Wall-to-wall caribou for the win!!!

Evidently so. (I always watch the random chunk of text question with hawk-like interest. It fascinates me what wins and what doesn't.) Have you read the story (http://fearlessdiva.livejournal.com/225139.html) that the quote comes from? (The random chunks of text are things I highlighted and then accidentally clicked copy-to-notes instead of just copy. So they are random samples of my internet wanderings. That one must've come from a comment on the story itself. It's such an awesome line.)

[bluemeridian]

Oh dear god, I hadn't read that story! That was awesome. *wipes away tears of laughter* The quote actually is from the story:

Here's how it would go: at first, Ray would notice Fraser acting kind of strange, stranger than normal that is. He'd start out kind of quiet, thoughtful-like, and after a couple of days of that, he'd go all nervous and stammery for a day or two. Then it was wall-to-wall caribou for a week at least. Ray would imagine story after endless fucking story, and how bored he'd be, and then frustrated as he finally realized that Frase was trying to tell him something but it was all in some kind of fucked up Canadian code. Ray could comprende Fraser's body language no problem, totally fluent, but Ray did not speak Canadian. Lucky for Ray, Fraser was a little clueless sometimes but not stupid. If Ray just waited out the caribou phase, eventually Fraser would get with the direct approach.

Wall-to-wall caribou. That's just fantastic.