Testing . . .
I figured it was time to figure out semagic.
I don't like semagic. I know a lot of you swear by it, but man, I'm used to typing in html code. Ths highlighting and italizing thing is bothersome. But for the moment, I probably need to be able to post to four journals. Count them. Four. So ideally this should go through on greatestjournal, insanejournal, journalfen and livejournal. Gah.
Fandom people, I'm kind of in a bind. I'm pissed as hell at lj. I am. And the longer they go without at least addressing our concerns, the angrier I get. It's not even about the banning anymore. It's about the pure condescension they show to their client base. But otoh, I have too many rl friends here who mainly keep in touch with me through this journal; I know too many fandom people who aren't moving. I'll let my account lapse down to basic and there's no way I'm giving them more money, but at this point I don't think I'm leaving completely. If I cut myself off from so much of the community by leaving lj, then I'm cutting myself off from too much of what I love about fandom and from so much enjoyment of it. I feel like I'd be punishing myself too much in order to just punish lj a little bit. It would hurt me way more than it would hurt them, and I can't. Which isn't to say I don't get why some of you are standing on principle about it, because I really do. Fandom as a whole is going to have to migrate eventually. I think it's going to be gradual, but it's probably inevitable at this point.
I am going to be crossposting for awhile, at least until the dust settles. Maybe indefinitely. I'll crosspost at least to journalfen and insanejournal. I don't trust greatestjournal any more than I trust lj from what I've heard, and I really don't see the point in going there unless that's where fandom en mass lands. I mean, they seem to randomly delete things like ICONS with questionable copyright issues. I don't think that's where we need to be. I don't think lj is where we need to be either, but it's where we are and I just don't think I can give that up.
I have problems with insanejournal in that I get a 404 error message every time I switch pages and then I have to shut it down and open it up again. It's frustrating. And it's ugly.
Journalfen is ideal, I think, except that its servers crap out and it's hard to get an account there. Still, if I fall anywhere other than lj, I imagine that's where I'll be unless fanarchive actually happens.
I don't think I can keep up with four different flists and I'm probably not going to try, though I imagine I'll read journalfen for sure and probably the others too for awhile, at least until I know where everyone is. Those of you who aren't going to be on lj at all, please, please tell me where you are going to be so I can be sure to find and keep up with you. I have friends who I know are leaving who I would be so upset to lose.
I don't like semagic. I know a lot of you swear by it, but man, I'm used to typing in html code. Ths highlighting and italizing thing is bothersome. But for the moment, I probably need to be able to post to four journals. Count them. Four. So ideally this should go through on greatestjournal, insanejournal, journalfen and livejournal. Gah.
Fandom people, I'm kind of in a bind. I'm pissed as hell at lj. I am. And the longer they go without at least addressing our concerns, the angrier I get. It's not even about the banning anymore. It's about the pure condescension they show to their client base. But otoh, I have too many rl friends here who mainly keep in touch with me through this journal; I know too many fandom people who aren't moving. I'll let my account lapse down to basic and there's no way I'm giving them more money, but at this point I don't think I'm leaving completely. If I cut myself off from so much of the community by leaving lj, then I'm cutting myself off from too much of what I love about fandom and from so much enjoyment of it. I feel like I'd be punishing myself too much in order to just punish lj a little bit. It would hurt me way more than it would hurt them, and I can't. Which isn't to say I don't get why some of you are standing on principle about it, because I really do. Fandom as a whole is going to have to migrate eventually. I think it's going to be gradual, but it's probably inevitable at this point.
I am going to be crossposting for awhile, at least until the dust settles. Maybe indefinitely. I'll crosspost at least to journalfen and insanejournal. I don't trust greatestjournal any more than I trust lj from what I've heard, and I really don't see the point in going there unless that's where fandom en mass lands. I mean, they seem to randomly delete things like ICONS with questionable copyright issues. I don't think that's where we need to be. I don't think lj is where we need to be either, but it's where we are and I just don't think I can give that up.
I have problems with insanejournal in that I get a 404 error message every time I switch pages and then I have to shut it down and open it up again. It's frustrating. And it's ugly.
Journalfen is ideal, I think, except that its servers crap out and it's hard to get an account there. Still, if I fall anywhere other than lj, I imagine that's where I'll be unless fanarchive actually happens.
I don't think I can keep up with four different flists and I'm probably not going to try, though I imagine I'll read journalfen for sure and probably the others too for awhile, at least until I know where everyone is. Those of you who aren't going to be on lj at all, please, please tell me where you are going to be so I can be sure to find and keep up with you. I have friends who I know are leaving who I would be so upset to lose.