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InsaneJournal: Growing Like The Dickens

Jan 17, 2008 19:00

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Comments 19

cruisedirector January 18 2008, 03:12:33 UTC

I think there are a lot of people mirroring at LJ and IJ (and in some cases GJ and JF). Overwhelmingly, it's fannish people I know at IJ, whereas here, there are people from various other aspects of my life.

stewardess January 18 2008, 03:18:15 UTC

I have a confession: I no longer read my flist at LJ. *sneaks away*

cruisedirector January 18 2008, 03:22:15 UTC

Hey, not bothering me any; I almost never read my IJ friends list, as there are precisely four people I read regularly who only post there and not here, whereas there are about 30 people I read regularly who only post here, not there. And the odds of my flist loading here are about 99 percent, whereas there it continues to be 70-80 percent.

stewardess January 18 2008, 03:32:00 UTC

I'm very lucky. Almost everyone I want to read is posting at IJ now. I have nearly 200 friends there. *bounces*

I am able to load my flist there 95% of the time. I wonder why it's so funky for you. :(

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half_elf_lost January 18 2008, 03:48:32 UTC

I'm still living in both places and need to comment more at IJ. Is there some magic to mirroring....or just cut and paste into both?

Either way, Happy New Year! I didn't get a chance to wish you that.

boji January 18 2008, 04:05:43 UTC

I just cut and paste from IJ - and really I think reading and commenting and building a friends list over there is, in someways dictated by what your fandom is and where they play. Everyone I know is still here aside from potterverse folk.

That said I'm very happy to have a back-up over there.

stewardess January 18 2008, 04:19:18 UTC

There are many ways to mirror. I don't post often at LJ, though, so I don't use them. When I post here, I just use copy and paste ( ... )

half_elf_lost January 18 2008, 13:28:43 UTC

Many thanks! That will be my project this weekend.

kerravongenius January 18 2008, 05:29:22 UTC

I expected to miss the people who went to IJ, but in the end, I don't. Everyone who had anything useful to say seems to be mirroring here anyway. I've only looked at IJ blogs twice and it seems vastly inferior to LJ as far as I am concerned.

I'm starting to suspect that IJ has managed to lure away a lot of the drama queens. Those with a tendency to flounce out in high dudgeon have flounced in that direction. Bad for IJ, good for me.

stewardess January 18 2008, 06:35:25 UTC

That makes me a drama queen, then. :)

I don't view it as IJ luring me away. I view it as LJ pushing me away.

After all, what does IJ have to lure anyone with? Certainly not their gray and mustard yellow default theme. Though perhaps Squeaky did lure me with his simple content policy and his willingness to talk to customers.

kerravongenius January 18 2008, 06:43:30 UTC

I wasn't referring to you, so much as to all the nutters who came out of the woodwork after Strikethrough and filled LJ with hysteria. I'm sorry you've left us, but not so sorry that I will be going to IJ.

I suspect IJ will do the same as LJ sometime soon. The problems don't go away just because you go elsewhere.

I don't like what LJ did and I hate their flag system, but LJ is still better than IJ and I'd rather stay and be one of the people trying to change LJ back to what it should be than go to an inferior place and wait for the trouble to start there.

thebipolarcat January 20 2008, 07:04:33 UTC

I'd rather stay and be one of the people trying to change LJ back to what it should be than go to an inferior place and wait for the trouble to start there.

I'm not trying to butt in here, but I was wondering if there was a community for your cause. I was involved at ljspeaks and it seems as if everyone there has dropped off of the planet. So much for getting together and trying to save Lj.

Unfortunately, I'm beginning to see that saving Lj is probably not going to happen. The staff is just way too far gone and fail to see their mistakes. Yeah, maybe they don't see it now, but I guess they will down the road, and by then it will be too late.

And, just a thought: Ij isn't inferior to Lj; Ij is exactly the same as Lj was when it (Lj) first started out. I don't know how long you've been here, but that's the truth. The only differences between Lj and Ij are that the community atmosphere on Ij greatly match the atmosphere of Lj in the beginning, and Ij has not lost that atmosphere. Lj has. The other difference is that Lj has implemented fancy ( ... )

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thebipolarcat January 20 2008, 06:56:54 UTC

Staggering. Nice job, Lj.

I have an Ij account set up and waiting; I just can't seem to make the move. Nearly all of my friends are still using Lj, and I can't be bothered to cross-post, so here I am.

I would like to make the move, but just can't until I can convince myself that it's okay to leave all of my Lj friends behind. Besides that, up until now I've been involved at ljspeaks; though it seems that even that community has given up.

akashaelfwitch February 13 2008, 23:29:01 UTC

I will miss your stories, I have a difficult time keeping up with LJ since my volunteer work takes up a lot of my free time. But if I had your fics friended that meant what you wrote interested me.

I will try and treasure them while they are still here and before you shut down your LJ community.

*hugs*

Akasha