LJ TOS and Planning for the Summer Round

[holmesticemods]

A couple orders of business before we start our summer round!

First, given the new LiveJournal Terms of Service, we are questioning the long-term sustainability of hosting Holmestice at LiveJournal. The new TOS seems to be explicitly anti-smut and implicitly anti-LGBTQ+; furthermore, we have questions about whether the new TOS protects author and

Comments

[tripleransom]

I'd vote for option 2. Trouble with only having stuff on AO3 is there's no 'face time' any more and discussion kind of goes out the window. Sure you can leave comments, but there's no real back and forth.
I was thinking I might even participate this round. Holmistice has always scared me, but there's a first time for everything, right?

[dognmonkeyshow]

Trouble with only having stuff on AO3 is there's no 'face time' any more and discussion kind of goes out the window

This gets said a lot, but isn't my experience on AO3. I always get much more--and much richer--feedback on fic there than on LJ.

[tripleransom]

Comments on a particular fic, yes, but no discussion, no meta, no back and forth between several people.

[holmesticemods]

May I ask what about Holmestice has been scary? Is it anything that we can help with?

And we do hope you'll join us this round!

[capt_facepalm]

I'm on all three platforms. LJ has been my comfort zone but I will go wherever we must go.

[silver_cyanne]

I'd vote for option 2 and moving completely to Dreamwidth. Thanks for all the work you all do to make Holmestice work.

[mahmfic]

I would like #3 or #4 best. But moving to dreamwidth might be for the best.

[pipmer1]

LJ has been my comfort zone for years, and DW seems to have a similar setup. I vote for Option 2.