Something that's been confusing me about 'recent' changes in fandom:
fandom seems to have moved to livejournal almost completely, even for those things that aren't necessarily best served by LJ. In fact, very little except the pure socialising part of fandom - which is, of course, an important part, no contest about that! - is *really* best served by LJ. Forums are better suited for discussion, since they allow
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I'm in pretty much total agreement with you about LJ (except I miss mailing lists, which I'm better suited to than forums), and I'm also in agreement with the suggestion to try del.icio.us -- I went from being basically cut off from fandom for years because I can't deal with reading LJ, to suddenly being able to find stories in as many fandoms as I wanted. I'm still cut off from most discussion, but at least I've got the fic (and the vids, for that matter).
If you're interested, I wrote up a tutorial a few weeks back for fans wanting to learn about del.icio.us, which I'm told was useful for folks, even people who'd been using it for a while (the interface isn't all that intuitive at first glance). The preliminary overview and brief tutorial are here: http://aka-arduinna.livejournal.com/9837.html , and the detailed, step-by-step tutorial is here: http://trickster.org/arduinna/delicious.html.
(I've also got a couple of LJ-related essays up on my essays page, which are cranky and probably overdone, but heartfelt. *g*)
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