On LJ and DW ...

[dawn_felagund]

I've avoided talking much about LJ's latest shenanigans. Part of this is just sheer exhaustion with the regular cycle on LJ-induced outrage that has been going on since SixApart bought LiveJournal twelve years ago. Twelve years, y'all.I've also been posting to Dreamwidth with automatic crossposts to LiveJournal for seven years now. (Yeesh. All this

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[heartofoshun]

I AM diverting much of my reading to DW rather than LJ. In reading regularly on both sites over Spring Break, I've found that most people who are still posting are cross-posting, and I'd rather read and comment on DW

That's cuts me out of most discussions I'd like to know about probably. As you can well imagine I am really sorry to hear that. I will be deprived of your comments on other peoples' entries because I am not set up to be notified of everyone's DW cross-posts, when I do read there, I am the only one among my longtime LJ friends to join in the discussion.

I am too tired to think about this. I fell off the wagon again of trying to cross-post from DW--such a pain in the ass and so fiddly for me. I even tried it backwards for a while--posting here and cutting and pasting to DW. I don't like tracking the two threads either.

I still like posting here first because of the photo and graphic issues for me, and the majority of people who bother to comment on my daily blogs have never commented on any of my DW posts. In the two

[dawn_felagund]

I will be deprived of your comments on other peoples' entriesSince I haven't commented regularly on LJ for years, I don't see how you're going to be "deprived" of anything. I get email notifications for a handful of people I know in RL--you're one of them!--but most of those people barely if ever post; you're the only one who posts with any regularity, so your LJ is really the only place I comment

[heartofoshun]

So I don't know why you missed both of those opportunities, but I'm sorry you did since it's negatively colored your view of the site and really needn't have.

Started trying way earlier, and had waited months and finally snagged an invite by that time. You were busy with a real life during that time, while I was busy for months trying to get an invite to DW because I actually believed LJ would fold. I never knew LJ until Sixpart and it didn't seem much more Christian and fundamentalist than the people on HASA who voted down slash fics! Or fandom people who insisted that the MEFAs should be censored for adult work.

The problem with the cross-post is I cannot find a better photo server for my purposes than LJ. Last thing I was doing was using LJ again as my photo server and then posting twice since it does not post from LJ to DW.

I'm sick of its image-heavy posting page and, since the server move, about half the time I open a page, I have to stop and refresh it at least once to get it to open at all on my whack Internet.And I

[dawn_felagund]

And I thought I had the slowest loading internet in the world.

I sometimes remind myself that I don't either and that people who live in rural areas outside the U.S. would probably think what I have is lightning fast! :) I have satellite Internet, which means that if it is raining, cloudy, or snowing, then the speed drops significantly. Or if I'm trying to use the Internet while Bobby's watching a snowboarding video or surfing Facebook. Pretty much it sucks unless I'm hone alone on a sunny day (like now! And even today, I have had problems with LJ, which tells me it is on their end and not on mine for once.)

I never managed to get that notification system to work for me.That's my fault because I never bothered to fully learn WordPress. :^\ I learned enough to set up the site and that was it. My sister did a lot for me last year to make it less embarrassingly bad than it was but I hate depending on people to do things for me and really ought to have learned WP for myself rather than asking for her help. And it's stupid that I never

[heartofoshun]

I think part of my problem is my crazed hatred of "micro-blogging"--Laura comes to me a dozen times a week asking me what I think someone meant by their two-word response to her ten-word entry. I cannot wrap my mind about limiting myself to that kind of communication with others.

[dawn_felagund]

I agree! I have Twitter because it seems required to have an online Presence these days outside of fandom, but I mostly use it only to post links to my work and other people's Tolkien-related stuff (like your character bios!) Whenever I try to use it otherwise, I frustrate myself trying to meet the limits or what I say falls flat. Brevity is not a strength of mine, as though I have to tell you of all people that.

Also! Do you subscribe to heretic_lore? It's a way to get notifications of new HL posts in your friends feed. (It's an RSS feed, so I do not get notified of comments to the feed, so you shouldn't comment on LJ, but it will at least let you know when I have a new post up with a link if you want to leave a comment or read what others have said.) After my [lengthy ... ha!] lament over my lack of WP skills, I remembered this.

[heartofoshun]

Apparently, I do not or I would get notifications. Let me see if I can figure out how that works.

[dawn_felagund]

It's more or less the same as friending a journal or a community. It's just not updated by a person but via RSS whenever I update my blog.

[heartofoshun]

Thanks!

[keiliss]

Hi Oshun. Couple of things that might be helpful

[heartofoshun]

Thanks for the information.

1) extra user pics (you get 15 with a free account and 100 with a paid one)

I currently have 216 user pics and roughly 4,000 or more uploaded photos and graphics many linked from LJ to other sites. It has been one of my major forms of entertainment and methods of interaction--probably even more than my fic writing and canon research. etc. Yeah, I am a special little snowflake!

LJ has been the greatest thing ever for me and I came in after all the hostile takeovers so I have no memory of better days.

Thanks again for the information. It is very useful. I am going to need to know all of that stuff, because LJ without my friends is no longer LJ. So I am just railing at the gods at this point.

[keiliss]

I keep my loaded user pics at around 40 on LJ, just because I find it hard to sort through more than that on the drop down when I'm commenting, though I have no idea how many hundred are sitting in my icons folder. 15 is really hard work for me but I'll swap them out regularly as I did on my rpg journals. I've used LJ photo hosting for ages even though I have webspace to load them to because it's just so convenient, but I'm starting to go back and save and store them now. If anything happens, I'm not losing the images as well.

LJ's my longtime online home, even though it's so much quieter these days, so I do understand how you feel. Thing is, it's grown less and less like the site I checked multiple times a day back in the 'old days'. That makes me really sad.

[heartofoshun]

40 sounds like a reasonable number, but I always do everything to excess.

LJ's my longtime online home, even though it's so much quieter these days, so I do understand how you feel. Thing is, it's grown less and less like the site I checked multiple times a day back in the 'old days'. That makes me sad.

Same here!