Do we still need this community?

[dutchxfan]

Hi everyone. I've been working on a new website and relaunch LoganAndMarie.com and archive my own work over there. I would also like to archive all other fics from the authors that we love, but before I'm going to make stupid decisions, I'd like your input.

Is this LiveJournal community still the right social media platform to share things?

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[paradisekendra]

If I may make a plea, please don't ever delete this LiveJournal. After all of the work I did to back up the DDFH, the thought of losing another chunk of this fandom is overwhelming. If it's about updates, things do not have to be constantly updated to have a useful place. If you never updated this LJ again, it still serves a useful purpose

[dutchxfan]

Passionate or not, you totally convinced me. I share the same thoughts, but I just wanted it validated. Also, I totally agree when it comes to the other social media platforms. They aren't suitable for creating a community, except for FB. And I hate FB, haha!

I'm not sure what benefits your get from a paid account, but at least all ads will be gone for me. That's a huge plus because LJ looks so shabby with the ads all over the place.

I did find my old L&M website on one of my external harddrives. There's only 1 splash page from Cricketgirl, but I think I have more of her work saved somewhere else. Have to check. But all in all, the page is coming along nicely so far. :)

EDIT: I just read that I can embed LJ into my website a little easier with a paid account. I think this might be handy. Need to check it out more, but at least I'm going to link to this community from the website.

[roguelotus]

I totally agree with paradisekendra, who put it so eloquently. Thank you so much for keeping this part of the fandom alive. If you start a new site, you can just leave a post forwarding people to the new site

[dutchxfan]

Thanks for the info and the offer. I'll check Discord this weekend. It's nice to see you're still around here as well. :)

[paradisekendra]

I will check out Discord this weekend too! Latest next week if my job needs me long hours again due to the situation we're all in. Mid-week I'll have a break again.

I love the ability actually talk live with people. I desperately miss AIM, so I have been trying to find other instant messaging/chatroom like forums. So yay! I just need to learn how to use it. But the group of fandom archivists who helped me backup the YahooGroups got me as far as installing Discord and using it to teach me how to use the PGOffline software, so I know a little bit. I'll play around with it soon! Thank you for creating another sister platform for L&M fans!

[roguelotus]

Discord is super easy! Just click on that link and it will walk you through choosing a username etc. and then take you right into the message boards. There's no installation!

Yes, people chat in real time for sure; they've even had live watch parties where everyone watches an X-movie at the same time and comment live as they all watch it. Super fun!

I'd love to see you on that board!

[paradisekendra]

Yes! I love watching X-Men films together! That's a totally fun thing to do. I used to do that on AIM and Skye all the time. I'll definitely see you there soon! ;)

[paradisekendra]

Oh good! Yayyyyy. I'm happy to validate this LJ any time. Let me know if you need some praise it, we all need a little bit of appreciation every now and again for the work we do. There's nothing wrong with that

[dutchxfan]

Guess what?! I've found my layouts! They're all in php and programmed by hand by me. I'm not going to use it anymore. I used to host it on our own server but now, I host at Wordpress (at least for now). I'll use a standard template and change it a bit to fit my needs.

Do you want the templates?

[paradisekendra]

Yes please!!! OMG you know how to program your own templates! I really need to get on learning that! But yes please, I wouid love to have the templates. Thank you for offering to share them! :)

[dutchxfan]

Just to be clear, I don't have Cricketgirl's layout. I only ever used mine the time it was online. I can't even remember anymore what it looked like before me, to be honest.

[paradisekendra]

Gotcha. No problem. If I ever find a screenshot of the first layout of LM.com, I'll share it with you. It was BEAUTIFUL.

[cricketgrl]

I'll have a make a post with all the artwork and such from the first version. Mostly Splash pages.