I'm now posting most of my content on Wordpress and just providing a link over here.
To me, this sounds like a most sensible and pragmatic approach to the dilemma, because this way, you can keep Livejournal's advanced communication channels wide open though the main content is hosted elsewhere.
While I'd never want to lose my f-list and all the wonderful discussions, fun and inspiration that I'm having here, I recently created myself a Wordpress account just to find out how it feels to post a bit more for myself, and not just stuff which is mainly aimed at other people.
(My reasoning behind this: As Wordpress comes without any f-list options, I can post whatever and as much as I want to without running risk of spamming and going on people's nerves ;-))
Maybe I'll switch to your system, keep everything on Wordpress and simply provide links to the more "social" entries here on LJ.
P.S. In case you should wonder why I'm slightly incognito on Wordpress: My name was already taken, and I didn't want to attach any additional letters or numbers.
But if you go up to 'My Dashboard' you find a 'Blog Surfer' option there which you can use to create a friends list of blogs which you like.
Heh! And there I was, thinking I had found a way of escaping the "Curse of the F-list" ;-) But at least visitors will know right from the start that the blog comes 100% free of any interactional pressures, and that it will be entirely up to their own whether they'd like to add it to 'Blog Surfer' or not.
As for the layout: I find myself growing increasingly fond of the Wordpress style in general; a very clear, elegant and easy-to-navigate look.
Oh, and the name is just me, fooling around. Just look what happens if you type Bimo into Google image search ;-)
To me, this sounds like a most sensible and pragmatic approach to the dilemma, because this way, you can keep Livejournal's advanced communication channels wide open though the main content is hosted elsewhere.
While I'd never want to lose my f-list and all the wonderful discussions, fun and inspiration that I'm having here, I recently created myself a Wordpress account just to find out how it feels to post a bit more for myself, and not just stuff which is mainly aimed at other people.
(My reasoning behind this: As Wordpress comes without any f-list options, I can post whatever and as much as I want to without running risk of spamming and going on people's nerves ;-))
Maybe I'll switch to your system, keep everything on Wordpress and simply provide links to the more "social" entries here on LJ.
P.S. In case you should wonder why I'm slightly incognito on Wordpress: My name was already taken, and I didn't want to attach any additional letters or numbers.
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Heh! And there I was, thinking I had found a way of escaping the "Curse of the F-list" ;-) But at least visitors will know right from the start that the blog comes 100% free of any interactional pressures, and that it will be entirely up to their own whether they'd like to add it to 'Blog Surfer' or not.
As for the layout: I find myself growing increasingly fond of the Wordpress style in general; a very clear, elegant and easy-to-navigate look.
Oh, and the name is just me, fooling around. Just look what happens if you type Bimo into Google image search ;-)
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