Dreamwidth vs. LiveJournal

[settiai]

I've been using Dreamwidth as my primary journal for years. Yes, I've crossposted to LJ, but DW has been my preferred site and I've followed as many people on it as I could. Especially since half the time I can't even get LiveJournal to load comments properly so that I can reply to people

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[geminia905]

I went ahead and backed up to DW in case LJ goes belly up, but I don't like their format (not to mention not wanting to give up my permanent account perks), so I won't use it unless I absolutely have to.

Really hoping LJ sticks around, because besides my dislike for DW, I don't like having my fannish identity linked to my FB account, I loathe tumblr, and twitter is next to useless for most of my interests. Ugh.

[settiai]

I don't like their format

I've seen a lot of people making comments like that, and I don't quite get it. I've been using Dreamwidth since it was created, though, and at the time it was pretty much a clone of LiveJournal. Since I make all of my posts on DW, I'm assuming that maybe LJ has made changes over the last few years that I haven't noticed since I use the site so rarely? Because, as far as I remember from when I did make posts directly to LJ, the format and such was basically the same as DW.

[geminia905]

I have my LJ setup so everything shows up in my own style, which overrides the changes LJ has made over the last few years.

The times I've gone to DW (usually for kinkmemes), the style has seemed really disjointed. Not as bad as the mess that is tumblr by any means, but it just puts me off.

[settiai]

Huh. I'm not sure what style I have set up for LiveJournal, but it's one of the older ones that's very similar to the one I use on Dreamwidth. Maybe that's why I don't see it. I hadn't even realized that I'd changed that much with my settings, but it sounds like I must have.

[geminia905]

lol It's not really horrible or anything. I just have issues with disjointed sidebars and floating divs.

I think it's a holdover from my days as the library's webmaster. Certain styles just make me twitchy. *g*

[geminia905]

Well, it looks like they've expanded their available themes since the last time I tried DW. I've been working on it for a couple hours and have managed to cobble together a theme I can live with if LJ does go kaput. :)