Discovered Where...?
I don't really want to make this post, but sadly I think the time has come. discoveredinalj is 17 years old now, and I am still amazed that it's carried on so long after empty_mirrors and I were chatting online across the world - her in Wales, me in Alaska - and worrying about whether anyone at all would want to play with us in the comm. *g
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Nearly had heart failure reading those first few lines!
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Oops, sorry... Maybe I should have swapped those first two paragraphs around!
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Me too...
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Sorry!!
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Sorry but i won't be joining you if it goes to Dreamwidth, i don't like the set up on there.
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No, I know what you mean - I far prefer Lj's set-up, and personally I'd rather not move. I know they were trying to do a useful thing at Dw with the whole readers/subscribers/whatever separation, but I just find it confusing and annoying - and I don't see what's wrong with the idea of being "friends"!
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Don't close
This is my number one Christmas place
I thought that the Russians that got LJ were the rebels looking for a free speech area
I would really hate to see this place go. . . .
I love Dreamwidth but it does not have the same volume of folks
Love this place
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I won't close it! Just thinking about whether it should move to another forum... which I don't really want to do, but like I said in the post, it's not just about me. *g*
I think the Russians using lj are, like everyone else, something of a mixture. It was definitely a forum for rebels and free speech at one point, but I don't know how independent it still is (bearing in mind that its hard for any major forum to be properly independent in some circumstances). If you check the Russian and Ukrainian Cyrillic feeds though (which you can translate through google), you can see opinions and thoughts on all sides of the invasion - and I never think that paying less attention to people is a better idea than paying more attention to them. People who are treated like pariahs ending up feeling and then acting like pariahs - it's a stupid vicious circle. I did feel uncomfortable with the idea of paying money into a Russian institution - but Lj has by-passed that by extending our account time, so that's not an issue now either.
I'm not sure ( ... )
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As you know i used to post every day but not much interest has been shown lately so i stopped.
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I was hoping you were okay, as I hadn't seen you around lately - I thought I remembered that you were going on holiday somewhere, but that might have been a while ago!
I think it's something of a vicious circle - people don't post, so people don't come and look or comment, so people don't post... And there's not much rhyme or reason to when people do/don't comment, I think its mostly to do with the varying patterns in their own lives. Sometimes people don't have time to comment, sometimes they can't think of anything to say, sometimes they think they'll come back and do it later and don't have a chance, sometimes they think they're just being repetitive and saying the same thing over and over, and the post-er might be bored with them, sometimes they're just not in the mood to be social, even on social media... I remember Josey and I used to spend ages trying to work out why some posts or Dialj challenges had more responses than others, and we never could find a pattern! *g*
But I know what you mean - it's discouraging when people ( ... )
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No, no, no, don't move. I won't be able to participate if you move it to DW because I don't understand how to make a post with images at DW. I mean, I have a paid account and don't use it because I don't understand it. LJ is my fan home and I really hope it will survive.
And even if it is a little quiet here at the moment I have more notifications from LJ than from DW.
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Well so far 6/6 responses are for staying on Lj, and no one on Dw has responded over there at all, so the odds are good so far... (but to be fair I've really only just posted...)
So you've got a paid account at Dw, but you still can't post images easily? I thought it was just because mine was a free account that I couldn't do it - that sucks...
I see there are Pros fans over on Dw, but it's true I can't see many Pros posts there - I figured that might partly be because people haven't given me access to their Dws, or whatever it is you do there, but perhaps not then. Maybe the people who went there were basically done with Pros anyway...
Maybe we should make an effort to post more Pros over here at Lj (and I know I'm really really guilty right now too...)
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The only reason for me to get a DW account was to have a place where I could save all my posts for when LJ might go down. So it might be only my inability to understand their information about putting images into any posts, but I don't think so. It isn't as easy as it is here on LJ.
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I went to have another look at their instructions for posting pictures, and I think you have to upload pics separately to the Dw Upload image page, and then cut and paste the code it gives you to your post. Or you can cut and paste the code it gives you into "Insert Picture" by the posting window, but it's only a url code, and you don't seem to have as much control over the image as you do at Lj, at least not without adding a lot of extra code yourself... I wonder why they didn't just copy that part of Lj's functionality too...
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