[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!)



[Poll #1050367]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that my flist seems quiet lately, but I thought it was just the season.

It could just be the season, depending on what fandoms your friends list is currently in. Some fandoms haven't changed at all, but one of the fandoms I follow closely is leaving almost en masse.

The more I try to think about this stuff, the more I think about other things I could do instead, like write, or bake bread, or clean the oven.

This was my approach, yes. (My bread recipes! Let me show you them. Although my oven remains regrettably unclean.) But, actually, looking at the poll, things don't look too bad. We'll apparently have more people posting their fanworks off LJ, which is quite frankly a very good thing - one of the big problems with LJ is that it really doesn't work as an archive - and personal-type content will mostly stay here, with some people who will need to be put on a feed or aggregated or whatever. So I think I feel slightly better for having made this post. (Which, for me, is a huge win, because even thinking about this brings on a major fit of change-phobic wibbles.)

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

I would love for you to show me your bread recipes, actually. I'm still a newbie at the bread-making (although very pleased with the bread I do make).

Which fandom is leaving? And where's it going to?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Really? Because it so happens I have some very awesome bread recipes, many of them taken from the best baking cookbook ever. (No, really: EVER. It is the only bread cookbook you will ever need. With it, you can make reliably wonderful bread all the time.) Are you a white bread or a whole grain kind of person?

Which fandom is leaving? And where's it going to?

DCU. I'm not surprised; they were exceptionally vulnerable (lots of underage/overage and underage/underage pairings, lots of art, lots of repeated trolling from the outside world (mostly fanboys) that could easily result in revenge reporting). And it's a relatively small fandom, so it was easier for them to go.

But even they are only mostly going. A lot of them are staying here, or also posting here, or providing links here.

See? Change leads to complication. THIS IS BAD. Why must things change?

Hmmm. I have issues with entropy, apparently.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

And once again I'm in my own time zone, or on my own planet. But if you're still offering, I'd love a recipe for something, um, more whole grain-y than not. I don't like white bread, but I'm not all the way into the dark brown German bread that takes a week to chew, either.