Comments | settiai: Dreamwidth vs. LiveJournal

settiai

Dreamwidth vs. LiveJournal

Dec 29, 2016 18:45

I've been using Dreamwidth as my primary journal for years. Yes, I've crossposted to LJ, but DW has been my preferred site and I've followed as many people on it as I could. Especially since half the time I can't even get LiveJournal to load comments properly so that I can reply to people ( Read more... )

website: dreamwidth, livejournal: general

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_profiterole_ December 30 2016, 13:41:56 UTC

I'll be here until LJ or my account specifically disappears. It'll always be time to move to DW at that point, since I don't plan on back-upping everything.

settiai December 30 2016, 18:22:25 UTC

Good to know!

ani_bester December 30 2016, 16:58:20 UTC

I am not planning to switch. I just..... don't care. If Russia needs to know my fears about babies and parenting and what not....whatever.

LJ has never exactly protected privacy to begin with.

I just use DW to back things so if Russia destroys LJ because it harbors anti-Putin sentiment (which it did and I am 100% sure is the reason for the move) I don't loose my whole fandom history. But I don't really interact much or follow anyone on DW.

settiai December 30 2016, 18:22:12 UTC

Honestly? My biggest issue with LiveJournal lately is that it just doesn't work half the time. I had to spend almost half an hour switching between browsers just to get comments to load so that I can reply to them. :-/

ghost2 December 30 2016, 16:59:33 UTC

I never did like DW and have zero interest in switching, so...

settiai December 30 2016, 18:23:07 UTC

I'll be here for at least a while longer. My biggest issue with LiveJournal lately isn't even the issues with Russia, it's that the site just doesn't work half the time. I had to spend almost half an hour switching between browsers just to get comments to load so that I can reply to them. :-/

geminia905 December 31 2016, 00:25:51 UTC

I went ahead and backed up to DW in case LJ goes belly up, but I don't like their format (not to mention not wanting to give up my permanent account perks), so I won't use it unless I absolutely have to.

Really hoping LJ sticks around, because besides my dislike for DW, I don't like having my fannish identity linked to my FB account, I loathe tumblr, and twitter is next to useless for most of my interests. Ugh.

settiai December 31 2016, 00:28:40 UTC

I don't like their format

I've seen a lot of people making comments like that, and I don't quite get it. I've been using Dreamwidth since it was created, though, and at the time it was pretty much a clone of LiveJournal. Since I make all of my posts on DW, I'm assuming that maybe LJ has made changes over the last few years that I haven't noticed since I use the site so rarely? Because, as far as I remember from when I did make posts directly to LJ, the format and such was basically the same as DW.

geminia905 December 31 2016, 01:03:42 UTC

I have my LJ setup so everything shows up in my own style, which overrides the changes LJ has made over the last few years.

The times I've gone to DW (usually for kinkmemes), the style has seemed really disjointed. Not as bad as the mess that is tumblr by any means, but it just puts me off.

settiai December 31 2016, 01:06:23 UTC

Huh. I'm not sure what style I have set up for LiveJournal, but it's one of the older ones that's very similar to the one I use on Dreamwidth. Maybe that's why I don't see it. I hadn't even realized that I'd changed that much with my settings, but it sounds like I must have.

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