![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
LJ vs. DW
What with the LJ outage yesterday, a small LJ vs. DW debate started up in my DW.
Now, no one can deny that DW has better customer service, listens to its users, and doesn’t screw people over the way LJ does. DW is very nice, and I find it useful as a backup. But I can’t ever see myself moving there for good.
And what I realised, when trying to explain why I’d rather stay with ‘the bad boy’, is that the difference is like Community:
LJ is Greendale. It might be rundown, and the teaching staff might be peculiar and rude and disinterested in teaching, and the facilities might leave a lot to be desired, and random bouts of anarchy are par for the course. But it has character, and I have a long, and very personal, history here. It helped shape who I am, gave me friends and shared experiences I can’t imagine my life without.
So – City College (DW) might be nicer and shinier and better equipped. But I’ll stay with the blanket forts and the chicken fingers and the paint balling and the insane Spanish teacher and the fire alarms that are just painted on.
YMMV of course.
(See I feel bad about coming across as putting down DW, and am quite happy to bitch about LJ anytime and anywhere. Which - if I think about it - means that LJ is home, and family, and DW is... the place I feel I ought to like more than I do. And 'ought' is not a good motivation.)
Now, no one can deny that DW has better customer service, listens to its users, and doesn’t screw people over the way LJ does. DW is very nice, and I find it useful as a backup. But I can’t ever see myself moving there for good.
And what I realised, when trying to explain why I’d rather stay with ‘the bad boy’, is that the difference is like Community:
LJ is Greendale. It might be rundown, and the teaching staff might be peculiar and rude and disinterested in teaching, and the facilities might leave a lot to be desired, and random bouts of anarchy are par for the course. But it has character, and I have a long, and very personal, history here. It helped shape who I am, gave me friends and shared experiences I can’t imagine my life without.
So – City College (DW) might be nicer and shinier and better equipped. But I’ll stay with the blanket forts and the chicken fingers and the paint balling and the insane Spanish teacher and the fire alarms that are just painted on.
YMMV of course.
(See I feel bad about coming across as putting down DW, and am quite happy to bitch about LJ anytime and anywhere. Which - if I think about it - means that LJ is home, and family, and DW is... the place I feel I ought to like more than I do. And 'ought' is not a good motivation.)
no subject
This is all very true.
But LJ has some advantages DReamwidth doesn't and the constant, unbearable assumption of some Dreamwidth users [...] has just brought out a sort of knee-jerk flinch every time the topic comes out.
Uh-huh.
Because... I like it here. My comms are here! My flisters are here! And I don't want to lose everybody and everything to this ridiculous assumption that Dreamwidth is always the best for everyone and everything at every time, when it simply isn't always.
Yeah, DW just... doesn't have what I'm interested in. I.e. my flist. It has SOME of it, but...
Also for a site that only exists because of LJ and its software, it's more than a bit ironic.
Also, what's wrong with InsaneJournal? (Actually, I'm not sure it'll let people cross-post.) But - I have a stupid fondness for InsaneJournal. It's the only one that wishes me happy birthday every year.
no subject
no subject
It was the odd alternative long before DW. But without any of the... Aren't We Special-ness. Just deliberately odd. I liked it.
Timing and features, I suppose??
Very much so, I think.