LJ vs. DW

[elisi]

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.)

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I feel similarly, I'm happiest on LJ because it feels like this is where I've build up my flist, this is where the communities are (although that's less true these days sadly). And the people who moved to DW did seem very elitist about at first, there was a default assumption that everyone is unhappy with LJ, those of us who are remaining are just too lazy to pick ourselves up and move over to DW. Whenthat just isn't the case for me, there were occasions when LJ did something that I grumbled about of course, but a lot of the time I felt like people were making a bigger deal of an issue that they needed too, LJ has never upset me enough that I have ever felt the need to threaten to leave :shrugs:

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I feel similarly, I'm happiest on LJ because it feels like this is where I've build up my flist, this is where the communities are (although that's less true these days sadly).
Tumblr stole fandom. >:(

And the people who moved to DW did seem very elitist about at first, there was a default assumption that everyone is unhappy with LJ, those of us who are remaining are just too lazy to pick ourselves up and move over to DW.
Yeah, this. That sort of 'Why haven't you moved, DW is so much better!' (Except I have never found a layout I like, f.ex. And I've had my DW for 6 years...)

Whenthat just isn't the case for me, there were occasions when LJ did something that I grumbled about of course, but a lot of the time I felt like people were making a bigger deal of an issue that they needed too, LJ has never upset me enough that I have ever felt the need to threaten to leave :shrugs:
Same here. DW is... like moving to the countryside. And it's all very nice, but I like to have a corner shop and more than 3 neighbours. ;)