Where have all the postings gone... long time passing...

[laurion]

So, forgive me if this is a dumb question, but where did everyone go?

A forced change to livejournal (friend's page no longer accepts custom styles) has pushed me to go to each of the friends that I follow and resubscribe to their individual pages.
And I keep seeing a wasteland.  So many last updates that say things like '2010', '2009', '2007'.

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[offside7]

I noticed a migration to dreamwidth a while back and made an account but never did anything with it. I vaguely wonder if dreamwidth is more active than I realize. For me personally, I've stopped writing posts about the bummers in my life because I get depressed writing them and I don't think people really want to read them. The bulk of non-bummer, happy stuff in my life is currently larp related, which sounds kind of obsessive, but for one thing... I am kind of obsessive (let's call it enthusiastic) and for another, larp is an outlet for my other hobbies, too. Larp inspired me to take dance classes, costuming for Larp inspires me to work on sewing and other art hobbies (like calligraphy, sketching, and other prop building crafts) and my current main sport is boffer fighting. And all of that stuff ends up on my larp-focused blog, leaving... mostly tv and movie reviews for my lj. Some of which get so long and rambly that I just leave them as private.
It's kind of a drag for me to see lj dwindle. I much prefer the content her than the content on twitter, fb, and tumblr. As bad as lj is for holding conversations, tumblr is that much worse, and the noise to signal ratio on tumblr is so very high. I should make an effort to post more here just to encourage more lj use, but I don't know what to say here. Maybe I should be cross posting stuff from the larp blog here, but I've never gotten into the habit of cross posting. I dunno.

[laurion]

You're so passionate that it spills outside the bounds of social networks and into its own separate entity. and that's a good thing. And I fully recognize the need for things like that to have their own space. that isn't a problem. And you still -comment- a lot on LJ. Which is important too.

And yes, the conversational orientation of LJ does beat most other systems. That's somewhat an artifact of when it was birthed.

I'm not sure that you should be crossposting everything from the larp focused blog. Some of it, maybe. But maybe you'd be served by setting up an LJ syndication to it so people who still primarily use LJ as their update channel would be able to easily get those updates.