Hi Fandom!

[venefica_aura]

Ha ha, you thought this was dead, didn't you?

Well, first, first_seventhe and I have been kind of busy. I'm an aerospace engineering student, she's a chemical engineer, we get busy sometimes. No, we're not kidding. XD Plus there hasn't been too much activity and the usual Monday Updates were getting kind of repetitive and annoying. I'm sure some of you filtered

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[guiltyred]

Oh, there's already a budding FFVII presence on DreamWidth! Check it out - there are several fic communities up and running, and they're affiliating with each other to spread the word.

I think DreamWidth might just be the Real Deal for a fandom journaling service. It's so easy to crosspost from there, too - it's as though LJ and Semagic had a perfect lovechild, and that was DreamWidth. :3

[venefica_aura]

That's cool. And I know there's a general FF archive thing started. I guess I was talking more general though. I mean, I start in FFVII myself, not complaining.

Good to know!

[lassarina]

final_fantasy_archive on Dreamwidth~!

DO I have to go back and find my original profile comment to update? I forget. Lazy cat is lazy.

[venefica_aura]

There is a tag with your name on it for ease of finding, silly. But yeah, you go adjust that post and just let me know wherever.

I'd edit the post myself, but you can only delete or tag posts as a mod on a community.

[lassarina]

I keep forgetting I am dealing with organized people here. Off to edit!

[venefica_aura]

Oh, I'm not always organized. You should see my room right now (granted it's finals week, I get a free pass there). But I'm a datafreak. It is also my goal to be able to run my entire house someday from a keyboard.

[tijuana_pirate]

Hrm, an interesting idea. Personally, I'm getting rather sick of bouncing my writing journal from place to place. I even discovered that some 60 stories of mine are missing from my Insanejournal site (because of my own stupidity when I made the transition from lj to there). The idea of making on last final home for myself (since I'm eventually going to have to re-archive my older stories anyways) is tempting.

Personally, I'm rather sceptical about most of these sites now. People might view this site as the final fandom haven, but even in the website's guiding principles the admin are clever enough to leave wiggle room for themselves.

We believe in free expression. We will not place limits on your expression, except as required by United States law or to protect the quality and long-term viability of the service (such as removing spam). We will provide you with tools that make creativity and free expression easy. If, at any point, we have to place restrictions on your expression, we will tell you why, and work to find the best

[venefica_aura]

I'm on a shit ton of social sites anyway (because my life is compartmentalized like that).

And it's just charming enough for me to take that invite code and want to play with it a bit. XD I'm realistic enough not to put all my hopes on everything (this is why I have ljarchive save all my shit and have a wordpress archive).

[lassarina]

There's a post in dw_biz somewhere about how they ran their numbers - they need 1 paid account per 19 free to keep the site viable, and that's estimating really, really highly on costs per 20 users. They've been doing this for a really long time, so I suspect they have planned for the contingency. (Denise has a huge post somewhere about why ad-supported social media is doomed to failure; I can dig it up if you'd like.)

However it is only fair to point out that I've been excited about DW since it was very first mentioned publically, so take me with a grain of salt!

[tijuana_pirate]

I'd be interested in reading that post - not because I don't believe you but because I think it would be interesting to read!

Personally, I like the idea of people becoming more involved with their social networking sites. I really would like for a project like this to succeed - a site that's based on people willingly paying for a service to get a (possibly) superior product. I think it's safe to say that most long-term lj users become quite attached to their journals - their writing journals & communities even more so. I like the honesty of the company asking me for my contribution as a consumer, rather than attacking me with ads (which makes them beholden to the companies supporting their service, with arguably dubious results).

tl:dr; I like the idea of this experiment. I'm sceptical and I'm not sure it'll work but if we can't experiment with projects on the internet, where can we? ^^

-T. pirate

[grygon]

too much to keep up with... i feel too damn old for this.