Not so fast CHUCK fans
Damn, I guess it's not a sure thing for CHUCK after all. A couple more weeks to wait on final word. Bummer. :( I'm guessing the same is true of Medium - though they've had a good run and, provided they don't end on some annoying cliffhanger, it won't be as unsatisfying (for me, at least) if this one doesn't see another season.
I'm fully backed-up on dreamwidth and have, therefore, deleted my InsaneJournal and JournalFen (I couldn't find a way to mass delete all the JF posts, ezust) since I don't need them anymore and I doubt I ever did. I've subscribed/granted access to only a handful of folks so far - those who found me first and a couple other personal friends I quickly remembered off the top of my head that I'd want to stay in touch with wherever they are. But I haven't gone through the list I've been keeping of flisters who said they had DW accounts yet, and I probably won't have a chance to do that until next weekend. I still have to research this whole reading list thing.
Since LJ will remain my primary account for the foreseeable future (most likely always) because it's perm and I can pretty it up with a ton more choices than are currently available on DW (i.e., virtually nothing, and I'm not smart enough to create my own themes and crap like that - plus, uh, way too much effort), I will keep and accept comments wherever they're given because I don't see the need not too. It was never a problem when people commented to me on IJ or JF.
I'll probably slowly defriend folks who are no longer accepting comments on their LJs and referring everything to DW. Not trying to be bitchy, but I just feel like this means you're not participating here anymore; so if I want to keep up with you and comment to you, I'll subscribe to you on DW. I feel like my respective flists and reading lists will be more accurate and precise that way - a little housecleaning on both sides. And, too, I can make a decision not to follow some people over to DW who no longer have interests similar to mine. I've already defriended one person who fell into that category (who never friended me back anyway, so it wasn't exactly a loss to either party).
But all this is going to take time, and I'm not going to rush it because I can't. RL and all that. I did do something I wasn't planning on doing, and that is sign up for a paid account for six months. Apparently if you got your invite code during Closed Beta and transported your LJ there via your temporary premium account, all your icons went with you and when your account reverted to free upon Open Beta, the icons stayed in place even if they became inactive. But since I didn't get a code until Open Beta, there was no way to do that anymore and I really didn't want to open my DW and see hundreds of posts with the same one icon. Stupid, I know, but I like the way things look now. If I let the account lapse to free after six months, then I'll do what I did on JF and have a handful of general icons that I pick and choose from whenever I crosspost or cut and paste after that; but at least I'll have some choice. If after six months I decide I like having a paid account, then I can re-up, so to speak.
I'll be so glad when I don't have to put anymore thought into all this. ;)
I'm fully backed-up on dreamwidth and have, therefore, deleted my InsaneJournal and JournalFen (I couldn't find a way to mass delete all the JF posts, ezust) since I don't need them anymore and I doubt I ever did. I've subscribed/granted access to only a handful of folks so far - those who found me first and a couple other personal friends I quickly remembered off the top of my head that I'd want to stay in touch with wherever they are. But I haven't gone through the list I've been keeping of flisters who said they had DW accounts yet, and I probably won't have a chance to do that until next weekend. I still have to research this whole reading list thing.
Since LJ will remain my primary account for the foreseeable future (most likely always) because it's perm and I can pretty it up with a ton more choices than are currently available on DW (i.e., virtually nothing, and I'm not smart enough to create my own themes and crap like that - plus, uh, way too much effort), I will keep and accept comments wherever they're given because I don't see the need not too. It was never a problem when people commented to me on IJ or JF.
I'll probably slowly defriend folks who are no longer accepting comments on their LJs and referring everything to DW. Not trying to be bitchy, but I just feel like this means you're not participating here anymore; so if I want to keep up with you and comment to you, I'll subscribe to you on DW. I feel like my respective flists and reading lists will be more accurate and precise that way - a little housecleaning on both sides. And, too, I can make a decision not to follow some people over to DW who no longer have interests similar to mine. I've already defriended one person who fell into that category (who never friended me back anyway, so it wasn't exactly a loss to either party).
But all this is going to take time, and I'm not going to rush it because I can't. RL and all that. I did do something I wasn't planning on doing, and that is sign up for a paid account for six months. Apparently if you got your invite code during Closed Beta and transported your LJ there via your temporary premium account, all your icons went with you and when your account reverted to free upon Open Beta, the icons stayed in place even if they became inactive. But since I didn't get a code until Open Beta, there was no way to do that anymore and I really didn't want to open my DW and see hundreds of posts with the same one icon. Stupid, I know, but I like the way things look now. If I let the account lapse to free after six months, then I'll do what I did on JF and have a handful of general icons that I pick and choose from whenever I crosspost or cut and paste after that; but at least I'll have some choice. If after six months I decide I like having a paid account, then I can re-up, so to speak.
I'll be so glad when I don't have to put anymore thought into all this. ;)