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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] 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]

Horatio

[identity profile] redfiona99.livejournal.com 2007-09-05 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
>>In the near future, how can a recommendations source (like, you know, me) be of most use to you?<<

Basically, do as you will, but if you're moving to exclusively non-LJ posting, could you leave a forwarding address as it were.

I'm not moving because a lot of the people I have on my f-list post only to LJ so I'd be missing out on them. I use my Deadjournal as a mirror, but I only cross-post non-fanfic posts on there, and I've done that for years.

As for if you change, I can sadly only offer to hold hands because I'm technologically incompetant.

Re: Horatio

[identity profile] thefourthvine.livejournal.com 2007-09-06 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Basically, do as you will, but if you're moving to exclusively non-LJ posting, could you leave a forwarding address as it were.

I don't think I'll be leaving LJ until fandom leaves it; this is more about expanding my options than limiting them. So even if I'm also posting elsewhere, I expect to be here, too.

But if that should change: forwarding address. Totally. I want to be found!

I'm not moving because a lot of the people I have on my f-list post only to LJ so I'd be missing out on them.

The majority of my friends list looks to be staying here, so yeah. At this point, I'll either be reading here or on a feed aggregator, if I can get the security issues worked out.