I'm moving, but you don't have to.

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My public posts from Dreamwidth are now syndicated at 403_dw. I'll be posting to there from now on, and those of you who prefer to stick with LJ can comment at Dreamwidth through the magic of OpenID. (If you're concerned about not being able to read my extremely rare locked posts, let me know and I'll be happy to grant access to your LJ account.) I still

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[gandalfgreyhame]

Why not enable cross-posting?

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1) It spams people who read both LJ and DW. The plan is to eventually allow DW accounts to read their LJ flist through DW, which would make the spam even worse.

2) Some people have raised security concerns (you're giving your password to a third party), and I have neither the time nor the energy to properly evaluate them.

[solanth]

What's Dreamwidth?

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It's an online journal service that's a real code fork from LJ (rather than just taking the original open-source code and hoping one can dig up the patches, like DeadJournal and InsaneJournal did). The staff there are people who've worked for LJ in the past, so they also know the ins and outs of both codebase and community. They appear to have a sound business model that doesn't involve advertisements (which has recently become a matter of interest. To be fair, the LJ staff seem to be acting quickly on that one, but it shouldn't have the opportunity to happen at all). They also have a few new shiny features, but that's not the reason I'm making the change.

livredor has a more in-depth discussion of many of the above points, and probably says them better than I could.

[copperwolf]

I just read Miss Golden Liver's (alas, I don't speak French) post, and what seems to bother her most about LiveJournal is the advertisements. She says she wants her journal to be ad-free and points out that many people can't afford to pay for an account, but she has a permanent account, which is paid for and which will never show advertisements. So I don't follow that argument, unless she's arguing on behalf of other people who want free ad-less journals and not for herself

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Advertising is a part of my concern ("plus" users see advertisements everywhere, even on the journals of paid users, and they're now the default account type), but only part. I'm tired of the site that hosts most of the written record of my life being tossed around like a hot potato every few years, and then the learning curve of the new owners as they figure out what the user-base will and won't put up with. (DW's owners plan to keep it a small business, pretty much indefinately, and that's fine by me.) I'm also tired of being "friended" every few weeks by Russian spammers, which never happened before the site was sold to SUP. (They seem to vanish after another few weeks, probably when a human realizes the addbot collected people who don't speak Russian. But that doesn't make it any less annoying.)

I also really really like the differentiation between people I subscribe to and people I grant access to. And not calling it "friends" is an added plus, because applying that term to people I'm not actually friends with but like to read (ursulav

[zeightyfiv]

*pouts!* No icons in the syndicated feed!

[ext_185591]

Alas, OpenID comments don't have icons either.

[zeightyfiv]

I assume, also, that comments posted here on the feed are LJ-wide but are not propagated back to DW?

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True. And I don't think there's a way to make the feed disallow comments.

[voces]

As you know, we're already there, have you added, etc.

-Hess