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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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*ahem*
Though, that said: I didn't get into LJ for fandom. (No, actually, that's a lie, I did get into LJ for fandom, because at the time I had a Diaryland diary for other purposes. But then my RL friends, who previously had used DL or other blogging services -- and this was before we called 'em "blogs": they were "online journals" back in the day -- migrated to LJ, and the flist and other functions seduced me very thoroughly, and a year or so in, I gave up on fandom altogether, but kept LJ for personal blogging.) Most of my flist is not fandom-related. (Shocking, I know.) It would annoy me greatly if more of my fannish flist migrated without mirroring, because then I'd have to shift my rump and actually get a second journal somewhere, or a feed aggregator or something, and that's, like, effort. One of the things that I loved about LJ right from the start was that it made my life easier: the migration is not yet making it more difficult, but it might in future.
That said, I was into fandom before LJ. (I remember the days when the HPSlash mailing list on Egroups -- because this was before Yahoogroups! -- had 21 members. Yes, HP fandom was small once. Small enough that the very first Draco/Harry story ever ["Smash the Mirror" by Cathryn] was posted to the RareSlash list. Now I feel old.) I found ways then; I'll find a way now. It's going to be a pain in the ass whatever happens, even if the only substantial impact is a lot of bitching and paranoia, and I think we've already passed that stage. *sigh* Farewell to convenience...
no subject
Awww. *blushes* *secretly turns up volume*
It would annoy me greatly if more of my fannish flist migrated without mirroring, because then I'd have to shift my rump and actually get a second journal somewhere, or a feed aggregator or something, and that's, like, effort.
I know! Change leads to complication. This is yet more proof that change is inherently bad. As if we needed any.
But I am going to be making some trial runs of various feed aggregators. Because I am just that brave.
Farewell to convenience.
*sniffles*
Oh, convenience. I loved you well. You will be missed. But I am hoping one of the feed readers will bring you back to me in a glorious new form. (Hmm. Does that make convenience undead or an angel? Well, I guess I'll find out. Like, if it's kind of convenient but really slow, then I'll know it's zombie convenience, but if it's shiny and bright and - good, I guess? - then I'll know it's the angel of convenience come to be with me forever. ...And it's possible I am now thoroughly overinvested in this metaphor and mental image and should stop this comment now before things get even worse.)