Would it be possible to have this kind of activity on Tumblr?
Much as I love this comm and have many many fond memories of it - not to mention that most of my shorter fiction for One Piece were first posted here and inspired by the prompts here - it really does seem like activity is dying down for good now. I know I don't have half the ideas I used to have, myself, and also less energy - but like I think many
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I agree that for tumblr the format needs to change. But I've always loved this community for its format and the fact that livejournal is made for long, text heavy posts and it's not all about flashy posts to get anyone's attention (that's my impression of tumblr). Sad but true, this community is dying and I feel same way about saving it somehow. Although we might be losing some of its qualities...
I'd offer to help with the main blog. This could definitely work, maybe we could have two admins rather than just one? So that in case one's busy elsewhere or needs a break or whatever, there'd still be someone to take care of the blog.
Though, what about networks like reddit? There's already One Piece subreddit with a lot of regular users and maybe we could have a thread there with contributers posting links to their submissions? That way we don't need to have a real admin, maybe just moderators. (I'm not really a reddit person, so I could be wrong here tho)
We wouldn't have a fancy looking main site like here... but maybe we could have the winners posted on a tumblr blog? Just another idea...
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It's great that you're offering to help with a possible main blog on Tumblr! I think I could be the second person, if we're two... school tends to eat up a lot of my spare time now, but I do think that sounds doable. (Of course, if traffic is slow on Tumblr too it would be easy to maintain... but that's not what we're hoping for, naturally! :D)
Maybe this kind of activity could work on reddit too. I'm not a redditor myself, so I'm not too sure of how it would work either. I know there are some One Piece forums where many members are hostile towards fanfic, but hopefully that's not the case for the OP subreddit.
I've also raised the question on Plurk and have had some response wondering if we shouldn't try Dreamwidth first, but then raise the word limit to 1000. A Dreamwidth comm would be much more managable than Tumblr, I think - it could work pretty much exactly like this one; people can even post as Guests or (I think, unless that's changed) via their LJ ID, if they don't want to get Dreamwidth accounts. I'm afraid we might not get much visibility there either, but maybe raising the word limit could help - one could give it a few months, at least. One could also have two different categories for fic - 300 words or less, or between 301 and 1000 words. And still one category for art.
How would you feel about trying that kind of thing?
Or maybe it's better to go right away to Tumblr... ack, i really don't know!
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