In re: LJ's omission of certain interests from the "most popular" list.

[antennapedia]

Actually, what I think fanfiction peeps should do here on LJ is adopt a code-name interest that we can all list on our profiles

Comments

[twilightofmagic]

Pas une pipe. Heh. lots of room of room for play ;-)

[antennapedia]

Yes, that's the spirit!

[seldomifever]

You have a cause. Seem to be going all Joan and I don't understand why the sudden imperative. Also, I don't get the "i can has peach" reference. This probably does not surprise you. 'Splain?

[antennapedia]

Oh. Well. I like writing software. It's my profession and it's one of my hobbies. It's fun. It's sort of a professional twitch you see in me right now: I look at the situation and I see an opportunity. I even see one that overlaps with my skill set a bit, though there are subtasks here I don't have a clue about. Plus I'm at a bit of a, hrm, career juncture, since my employment situation is about to shift around a bit.

I should probably just stfu and let somebody else worry about it. Concentrate on writing that stupid novel so I can fail to sell it. Um, yes, having an Eeyore moment. Never mind me. I'll get over it.

And: "Do I dare to eat a peach?"

[seldomifever]

I love your enthusiasm for the new project. If anyone can do it...can get it off the ground, I'm sure it's you. It'll make a great distraction away from the original fiction.

And, Antenna? Nobody's first novel sells. But you have to write the first, so the second or third can become enormously successful. :)

[antennapedia]

Now you sound like my husband. O.o

Yes. I agree. Writing the damn thing would be a better use of my time. I am going to write the software to drive BuffyGiles.com, though.

[secondalto]

There is currently a movement going around to make this Friday, March 21st a no posting day in protest of the recent doings. One of the demands is the restoration of the Basic Account. I don't see that happening. It was a business decision on the part of SUP and no matter how many people raise their voices I don't see them backing down on that. Everything they seem to be doing lately is business oriented, which I don't fault them for, that's why they bought LJ to make money. But I agree that they way they seem to be going about doing all of it is underhanded and smacks of dictatorial behavior

[antennapedia]

Yeah. I know. There's nowhere to go. Fuckit.

[antennapedia]

I... don't see how OTW can produce any serious archive or blogging platform. It's great to teach novices how to write software, but they're not going to produce anything well-designed or scalable. The scope of a project like that requires professional skill. Seriously: read some of Danga's white papers on things like how they scale their back end. This is stuff that's known in the industry by people who specialize in high-availability systems.

I'm not one of them, btw. I know just enough to know that I don't know.

And really, I should just shut up and finish my late rounds_of_kink story. Or better yet, stuff for my paying job. Yargh.

[kannnichtfranz]

*sigh* It's sad, when I think about my entrance into LJ fandom -- I stepped so tentatively into the waters, back around 2004, 2005. With LJ's changes, and with more and more people friends-locking their posts, I can see that if LJ had been like it is today, I probably wouldn't have had enough fun to stick around. I make friends and discover new things at a much slower rate these days. It's that initial openness and welcome to lurkers and newbies that has largely disappeared thanks to LJ's policies. I look forward to the day we find a way to get it back again.

SMOF! I have learned a new acronym. :)

[antennapedia]

Pay no attention to the fan behind the curtain!

I think fans are overreacting to some of LJ's policies. It remains to be seen if SUP is just clueless or actively working to remove itself from certain businesses, but I think in general LJ is one of the more benign hosts fandom might have. Sigh.