Dreamwidth?

[loganberrybunny]

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Got a paid LJ account? You may not have one for very much longer. Someone has ferreted out a comment on the Russian LJ which suggests that LJ will drop paid accounts in the spring. Not that we poor English-speaking users got told, though that's hardly surprising given that LJ has virtually shut down its US office, again without telling

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[hawthornowl]

I may well join you - I'm feeling like my time on LJ is done. While there are things I still want to say, I'm increasingly feeling like nobody is around to hear them.

Of course, that may be the case on Dreamwidth as well, but it's worth a shot.

[loganberrybunny]

It has to be, really. Yes, there are other LJ clones around (I was surprised to discover that DeadJournal still existed) but it does look as though DW has become the lifeboat of choice. A smaller site than LJ overall, yes, but perhaps with a better signal-to-noise ratio.

[alexf0x]

The issue with Dreamwidth is that it is for us lot that are still blogging with LJ. However it's waiting for LJ to drive the final nail into it's own stupid coffin so that most of us will start using the thing on a day to day basis. As such it's stuffed with dorment accounts either waiting for the day or never to be used.

Unless DW have made joining free I think that I might still have some invite codes somewhere. If people want to get on the "let's get the f**k out of LJ train.

[loganberrybunny]

The single biggest reason I'm still on LJ is that it's where my friends are. If I were starting from scratch, I would without doubt already be 100% on DW. True, DW is much smaller and quieter at the moment... but I'm almost at the tipping point where I'd prefer that to the increasingly horrible user experience of LJ.

DW seems to be running a (well timed!) promotion just now: the front page has a message reading, "For a limited time, you can create a Dreamwidth account without an invite code."

[rustyfox]

tumblr-style infinite scrolling pages? Oh my god. Please no.

Oh well, LJ pretty much represents my online life these days, so little as it is. I refuse to do twitter so I've pretty much dropped off the edge of the world as far as most people I ever knew are concerned anyway. Maybe I'll move to DW, maybe I'll just give up on the net full stop.

[loganberrybunny]

I have neither Facebook nor Twitter, so most people probably think the same about me. I can't help noticing that the only entry in your DW account is headed "Goodbye LJ?" I wonder which of their many idiocies that one was prompted by... they all merge together in my mind.

[rustyfox]

There's been so many, I honestly can't remember. It could have been when LJ became ddos-central.

I don't have a facebook either, and never will, regardless of how annoying that's getting. For instance, there are people are work I'd like to regularly or semi-regularly keep in touch with after I leave, and even the cleaner asked me what my facebook was. Ugh.

LJ suited me perfectly. I don't want to follow streams of trivial attention-grabbing posturing twaddle, I don't want to stoop to producing the same as either myself or a silly furry pseudonym (or worse an embarrassing mix of the two!) nor do I want to sell myself to an evil marketing corporation and again only trivialise real life friendships. The LJ method of "social networking" (before it became a buzz-term) was pretty much perfect, that is, while people still used it :(

I wonder if livejumblr as someone coined it will have a ridiculous "notes" feature, spamming entries with sometimes hundreds of pointless 'likes' and reblogs from other people...

[whitetail]

I'm 'whitetail' on DW, too, but the account is presently blank (I haven't imported my LJ's content there yet.) I'll probably be doing that soon, though. This latest change has really gone too far.

[loganberrybunny]

I've added you anyway. There's not much in my own account for the moment, but I suspect that may change...

[avon_deer]

This change will be the last straw for LJ for me. If they do this...I'm gone.

[loganberrybunny]

Given the just about universal hatred expressed for this proposal on the news page... I'm pretty sure they'll go ahead. Who knows, maybe this will be the point at which DW finally does become reasonably busy.

[loganberrybunny]

Quite what they hope to gain from aping Facebook is beyond me. Facebook easily has the resources to crush LJ if they try taking them on at their own game. As for DW, until I made a quick post today, I hadn't used it at all this year. I suspect I may use it again this year, though...

[loganberrybunny]

DW's setup is actually quite reminiscent of how LJ used to be, with a few extra bells and whistles on top. I suppose that's not surprising, given that it's a fork of LJ from some years back. The one big thing to get used to is the separation of subscribing to someone's journal and giving them access rights (to see your locked posts), which here at LJ is much more integrated. I'll get used to it. =:)