[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

[watersword]

I'm setting up a personal domain with berne in the next few weeks, and would be more than happy to share the space with you; in the interim, I'm posting as watersword at IJ. Once I get the damn CSS shaken out, ragnell.org will archive our fics (oh, god, I've written that much? I've only been in fandom since 2004, what is wrong with me?), have embedded wordpress blogs, and sooner or later, include an RSS feed of everyone we want to read.

But otherwise, I tend to live mainly in email these days -- it's a more intimate, somehow, and I find myself valuing intimacy.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I am awed. You have, like, a whole *plan*. With details. And stuff.

...I am impressed beyond words. No wonder you get so much done.

And, yeah, email. As wretched a correspondent as I am - and, well, you know how I am - email is definitely my preferred way of getting to know people. On LJ, it's all much more, hmmm. Performance-oriented? No real depth, I don't think.

[watersword]

I'm just one of those people who comes up with grandoise plans at the drop of a hat, and then thinks, "oh, that would be really awesome! I should do that!" I should note that I have a lot of gorgeous plans half-in-motion -- it can take me way longer to do them than it should, not least because my depression hits every winter, but also because I have so many balls in the air that I can't focus on any one for very long, or they all come crashing down. Also I have no attention apn whatsoever (she says, and looks at her fiction folder, which has several stories in it from 2004.).

The website, however, will be up by October, I swear to god.

Eh, email me when you can -- I always love hearing from you, and I'm hardly going to pout because you're not at my beck and call. You're worth waiting for.

There's a public aspect to the comment thing, I think; I suspect that the shorthand we use for expressing emotion in comments -- the *hugs* and *glomps* -- is a way of toning it down, making the emotion simpler and less personal. In email, I would likely actually express what I feel about XYZ; in comments, I'll just drop a quick note. Let me think about this; it touches on some ideas I've been working on of late.