Imzy
Anyone here joined Imzy? I'm not usually an early adopter of new social networks, but this one looks vaguely promising, since it has a community-based setup and the owners are actively courting fandom users and very responsive to suggestions. It has a neat system for managing multiple different usernames/profiles and anonymous posting all under the same account, too.
I don't have a personal blog there (you don't have one by default - you can create up to two blogs/communities when you join and one further per month up to a max of ten) but I've set up an Imzy version of my Doctor Doom fan community at /doomfans. The site's still in closed beta so you can't yet browse without signing up, unfortunately, but I've posted some screenshots here on the LJ version of doomfans.
I don't love everything about it (handling of long comment threads needs work, there's a lack of built-in ways to customise the appearance so far, and at the moment there's no paged view, only the dreaded infinite scroll) but a ton of suggested improvements have already been implemented in the couple of weeks since I joined, and it definitely looks much more suited to discussion-based fandom than Tumblr or Twitter.
Some fairly active existing multi-fandom communities:
/fandom_dealer (crack_van under a new name)
/fanwork_seekers
/canon_recs
/cranky_old_fangirls
/fail_fandom_anon
And writing prompt comms:
/100words
/panfandom500
/write_now
(Also, erk, have I really not posted since last year's Yuletide reveals? This is exactly why I didn't bother setting up a personal blog on Imzy. Will still be posting my ceaseless torrent of sometimes as many as a whole four entries a year here.)
In other fannish news, I recently watched and loved Arrested Development and plan to request/fic it at Yuletide, and also after many years have finally secured DVDs of Sports Night without paying a ridiculous price for them (they never got a region 2 release and I only started looking for them years late). So I hope to, y'know, maybe actually watch those sometime.
I don't have a personal blog there (you don't have one by default - you can create up to two blogs/communities when you join and one further per month up to a max of ten) but I've set up an Imzy version of my Doctor Doom fan community at /doomfans. The site's still in closed beta so you can't yet browse without signing up, unfortunately, but I've posted some screenshots here on the LJ version of doomfans.
I don't love everything about it (handling of long comment threads needs work, there's a lack of built-in ways to customise the appearance so far, and at the moment there's no paged view, only the dreaded infinite scroll) but a ton of suggested improvements have already been implemented in the couple of weeks since I joined, and it definitely looks much more suited to discussion-based fandom than Tumblr or Twitter.
Some fairly active existing multi-fandom communities:
/fandom_dealer (crack_van under a new name)
/fanwork_seekers
/canon_recs
/cranky_old_fangirls
/fail_fandom_anon
And writing prompt comms:
/100words
/panfandom500
/write_now
(Also, erk, have I really not posted since last year's Yuletide reveals? This is exactly why I didn't bother setting up a personal blog on Imzy. Will still be posting my ceaseless torrent of sometimes as many as a whole four entries a year here.)
In other fannish news, I recently watched and loved Arrested Development and plan to request/fic it at Yuletide, and also after many years have finally secured DVDs of Sports Night without paying a ridiculous price for them (they never got a region 2 release and I only started looking for them years late). So I hope to, y'know, maybe actually watch those sometime.