On LJ and DW ...

[dawn_felagund]

I've avoided talking much about LJ's latest shenanigans. Part of this is just sheer exhaustion with the regular cycle on LJ-induced outrage that has been going on since SixApart bought LiveJournal twelve years ago. Twelve years, y'all.I've also been posting to Dreamwidth with automatic crossposts to LiveJournal for seven years now. (Yeesh. All this

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[heartofoshun]

I AM diverting much of my reading to DW rather than LJ. In reading regularly on both sites over Spring Break, I've found that most people who are still posting are cross-posting, and I'd rather read and comment on DW

That's cuts me out of most discussions I'd like to know about probably. As you can well imagine I am really sorry to hear that. I will be deprived of your comments on other peoples' entries because I am not set up to be notified of everyone's DW cross-posts, when I do read there, I am the only one among my longtime LJ friends to join in the discussion.

I am too tired to think about this. I fell off the wagon again of trying to cross-post from DW--such a pain in the ass and so fiddly for me. I even tried it backwards for a while--posting here and cutting and pasting to DW. I don't like tracking the two threads either.

I still like posting here first because of the photo and graphic issues for me, and the majority of people who bother to comment on my daily blogs have never commented on any of my DW posts. In the two

[dawn_felagund]

I will be deprived of your comments on other peoples' entriesSince I haven't commented regularly on LJ for years, I don't see how you're going to be "deprived" of anything. I get email notifications for a handful of people I know in RL--you're one of them!--but most of those people barely if ever post; you're the only one who posts with any regularity, so your LJ is really the only place I comment

[heartofoshun]

So I don't know why you missed both of those opportunities, but I'm sorry you did since it's negatively colored your view of the site and really needn't have.

Started trying way earlier, and had waited months and finally snagged an invite by that time. You were busy with a real life during that time, while I was busy for months trying to get an invite to DW because I actually believed LJ would fold. I never knew LJ until Sixpart and it didn't seem much more Christian and fundamentalist than the people on HASA who voted down slash fics! Or fandom people who insisted that the MEFAs should be censored for adult work.

The problem with the cross-post is I cannot find a better photo server for my purposes than LJ. Last thing I was doing was using LJ again as my photo server and then posting twice since it does not post from LJ to DW.

I'm sick of its image-heavy posting page and, since the server move, about half the time I open a page, I have to stop and refresh it at least once to get it to open at all on my whack Internet.And I

[dawn_felagund]

And I thought I had the slowest loading internet in the world.

I sometimes remind myself that I don't either and that people who live in rural areas outside the U.S. would probably think what I have is lightning fast! :) I have satellite Internet, which means that if it is raining, cloudy, or snowing, then the speed drops significantly. Or if I'm trying to use the Internet while Bobby's watching a snowboarding video or surfing Facebook. Pretty much it sucks unless I'm hone alone on a sunny day (like now! And even today, I have had problems with LJ, which tells me it is on their end and not on mine for once.)

I never managed to get that notification system to work for me.That's my fault because I never bothered to fully learn WordPress. :^\ I learned enough to set up the site and that was it. My sister did a lot for me last year to make it less embarrassingly bad than it was but I hate depending on people to do things for me and really ought to have learned WP for myself rather than asking for her help. And it's stupid that I never

[sinneahtes]

I'm still trying to find motivation to look at DW again... I should probably at least back my stuff up and read my friends page there more often, but something about it just doesn't make me want to spend much time there yet. Maybe I'll see when I'm worrying less about other things in life and have a little more mental energy for this sort of thing (though I plan to keep posting and reading on LJ either way).

[dawn_felagund]

It's not a good fit for everyone, and I totally get that! I find DW much more pleasant than LJ, but my needs are not going to be everyone's.

(It did take me forever to find a DW theme I liked that wasn't either ice cream-colored or light text on a dark background!)

I do think it's a good idea to back up one's LJ in some way. Or any site content, really.

[talullahred]

When I was away a few years back, I logged in once in a blue moon because there was already a rule about deleting inactive journals. I think the period was one year, though...? Anyway, I haven't finalized my move yet out of sheer lack of time and energy. I love the LJ community but the business, not so much.

[dawn_felagund]

there was already a rule about deleting inactive journals.

Interesting ... I don't think they ever made good on it. At least, I have both communities and side LJs that I haven't touched in years and they're still open. :^\

I love the LJ community but the business, not so much.

Agreed! Although I've had a sharp drop in activity on my LJ since the server move (and an uptick on DW), so that motive is fast-fading, I hate to say ...

[heartofoshun]

I got a notice about an inactive journal that I have had for nearly ten years and never used expect to upload a half dozen user pics and one entry. So now I make an entry once every six months or so.

OMG people have let entire fandom fic archives disappear without a backward glance! Or asking anyone if they would like to take it over. How about Elffetish and its name generator? I cannot name OCs anymore.

[dawn_felagund]

You know that breaks my heart--I am such an Elf! I never want to let anything go. I would gladly host someone's personal fandom site before letting it just disappear. I always totally got the Elves and their specific use of the Rings of Power because I see so much of myself in that desire. I drove myself insane over that HASA Rescue endeavor, gave up other projects for it that I really wanted to do (like the B2MeM ebook, which I've yet to pick up!) because I couldn't stand the thought of all that fan history, all those stories lost. (Then it became a moot point because they went through Open Doors anyway.)

The name generator is still available through the Wayback Machine, although Pixellated Feanor no longer works, but I have used the lists to kind of cobble together my own names. In my current story, I'm mangling Primitive Quendian for naming purposes!

[hhimring]

You may be interested in this post as it seems to feature an independent translation of bits of the Russian TOS, including the bits you're asking about (I think I got the link from a comment of Rhapsody's):
http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1242131.html
Of course, what the owners of LJ reserve a right to do if they want is not necessarily the same as what they are actively planning to do.

By the way, DW is not technically not-profit (not implying they are making real money out of it), but I guess maybe you knew that and were using the term loosely to Oshun above.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I will check out that link now.

Ack--you're right re: non-profit status! And Denise had that in her last post too, so I had no excuse to fudge that up.