Apr 10, 2017 17:51
Apparently I just posted one of the most popular entries on LJ. Which I guess is pretty easy to do if I'm one of the only people still posting to LJ at all...
So, hi new people! Sorry for all the inside jokes that would've made much more sense[citation needed] if you'd been here 7 or 8 years ago. Before you go asking me what "HWHD" or "WTCN" or
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DW is identical to LJ functionality except that "adding" someone is no longer automatically "I want to read them AND let them read me." You can follow someone's journal without letting them read yours, or you can let them read yours without adding them to your reading page.
Importing is really easy (it's just going to take HOURS at the moment because EVERYONE IS IMPORTING). These days I update directly to DW (via a client), and I have DW set to automatically cross-post to LJ. That way my backup is automatically updated alongside my main journal. If you're updating in the web interface, there's a little ticky box for crossposting (assuming you connected DW to another account, but you have to do that to be able to import anyway).
Like ironymaiden said, DW has basically everything you want in your list. I'll go through each point on your list:
- A way to make TWO accounts.
Yes. I have my regular journal and a Tarot journal both here and on DW.
- The ability to use at least 116 userpics
A regular paid account has space for 100 userpics; a premium account has space for
250.
- A way to make a profile and interests list similar to what LJ has.
Identical to LJ.
- A friends page.
Identical to LJ, except I can't figure out how to add myself to my friends page (called your "reading page").
- A way to automatically backup my old entries and the comments on them to the new journal - with the mood, music, location, repost buttons, images, videos, tags, timestamps, friends-only status, custom friends groups, and probably something else I forgot intact.
You can automatically crosspost entries, and that will keep almost everything you want here. I'm not sure about repost buttons (since I don't use them), and it will keep images/videos as long as they're hosted somewhere both places have access to. Everything else it will keep.
- A way to upload images similar to ScrapBook - and with them having the same privacy settings as entries.
This is the only thing that seems to be significantly different. You can upload photos in the most basic of ways and set them to public/friends/private, but you can't organize them into albums like you can with LJ's scrapbook. (Yet. I get the impression they're working on the photo hosting functionality, so this might change in the future.)
- A way to have comments be screened.
Identical to LJ.
- A way to make the journal style similar to the one I'm using here. By this I just mean I don't want it to be TOO drastically different - I think any yellow layout would work.
There aren't as many journal themes/styles on DW as on LJ, but there might well be more variety in the future now that more people are moving over there permanently. At any rate, you can choose any style you like and then customize the colors to make it as yellow as you wish. :) There's a pastel yellow one called "Poppy Fields" under "Base Styles" if you want to start there.
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I did think of some more things that are in some of my entries that I want to make sure I can still have: polls, LJ-cuts (DW-cuts?), at least two sticky entries (because my list of userpics by order added is one and my glossary is another, although the latter is really just an entry with the date set to 2024), a way to postpone entries until a certain date (because I use that pretty often nowadays), and a profile bio as long as the one I have right now. And a pony and a Nintendo Switch. :P
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