[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 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.