Crickets and Tumbleweeds

[jianna]

Seriously I never know what's going on in the Vocaloid community anymore because this was my favorite source. Sobbu sobbu ;__;

Here's some Vocaloid news so this isn't just a useless whining post, Oliver has been adopted for use as the voice of Puppycat in Bee and Puppycat, by Natasha Allegri!

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Check out the show sometime, it's glorious

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[oftendistracted]

UM WELL

I apologise for never coming out and actually explaining anything, because I'd always hoped to be able to sort it out! The long and the short of it is that I moved house and my ISP shafted me, leaving me with a 2.5Mb connection shared between three people. This... isn't enough to keep up with vocaloid music, let alone when nicovideo changed things around to make the site primarily streaming rather than buffering, and I had to basically put a pause to it all. Got kinda bummed about it, didn't really have the energy to work, and worst of all we were locked into a year's contract minimum.

That said... I'm supposed to be getting a new connection within the next couple of weeks at a tip-top 16Mb, and along with it I've been wondering what I should do with this place and whether there's anyone actually around. I did at least keep links from my time off, intending to go through them later - you wouldn't believe how many bookmarks I have in two folders marked 'aaaaaag' - and while I might not have the time I once had, I reckon I can

[amethyst_turtle]

I think hauling the community to Dreamwidth may be better since just about every single person I know migrated there a long time ago. Livejournal loads abysmally slow for me most times now, and while I don't know if that's the case for those who still hang around here, it's clear Dreamwidth is getting a good bulk of traffic now. I've heard talk that fandom communities like this are slowly dying, though, and not a lot of them survived the migration to DW, but I say it's worth a shot if there's at least a handful of interested people.

Sadly I've kinda fallen halfway off the Vocaloid train and only have time to check for cover albums now and then so I won't be of much help keeping up with news. I could make an attempt at helping clean up tags, though, like I do over at VDR.

[oftendistracted]

The comment about online communities like this one dying off is a very fair point - I've noticed it happening myself and it's one of the things that really bugged me shortly before I disappeared. I think people do still read communities like this, but the difference is that sharing has become much easier and commenting to things has kind of taken a back seat to a quick reblog. Which is a great shame, because I think that kind of cheapens it all a little and certainly it can make maintainers feel kind of unappreciated, which leads to further decay, which blah blah blah.

If anything this isn't just a planning thread, it's also an interest check.

[jianna]

I'd be cool with a move to Dreamwidth, if other people are there too. I don't have one, but I also basically never use my LJ anymore except to look at the lolita sales community and occasionally look at the sad abandoned state of my friends list.

Tumblr is fun for casual little stuff, but it is so freaking easy to miss things because the post rate is super intense. If there's something on Tumblr I really care about I have to put it on my feedly. And then the commenting system is balls awful. I need proper comments for all of my very very super important opinions about things.

Good to see you even briefly!!

[oftendistracted]

I imagine it might be worth having a tumblr mirror, used in the same way as a twitter would be to announce updates? But yeah I can't see it being any more useful than that. DW seems to be a common suggestion so I might be looking at that, I'll look into how much I managed to do and mirror before my ISP died.

(Speaking of which: must grab Floor to get twitter details I guess? Then figure out twitter? oh god)

Sorry I vanished!! You posted this with impeccable timing, we just received our new router.

[jianna]

I like the idea of a Tumblr mirror. I follow a blog called Geekquality, and while they have an actual serious business site for their articles, they also keep a tumblr that links to the full articles and also has reblogs of fun, relevant stuff. I could potentially help out on that end! I'm better at tumblr than I am at twitter.

[oftendistracted]

I will get back to you! I've still got at least a week before I can really do any of this so I'm mostly just posting interest checks and trying to figure things out a bit.

[kitsuneasika]

I've moved to Dreamwidth, but I still check LJ, so I would be fine with this community being on either site.

[mitbix]

I'm all for moving to Dreamwidth! Especially if the entire community gets imported too, because I like going through old posts sometimes and it'd be nice if everything was on the same site because I'm lazy.

[zarla]

Haha not that I show up around here very often, but I check my flist more so on LJ than DW, but if more people want to move there, I have a DW account and can follow it over there as well. I'm not really sure how helpful I can be in terms of gathering news, although I'm not opposed to gathering up recs for Spanish/English Vocaloid songs, haha.