Because I've been here before...

[elisi]

If LJ would let me upload icons, I'd upload this one...



(Don't know who made it, cordykitten posted it, and I turned all nostalgic.)

Also via Cordy, this handy link:

http://downrightnow.com/livejournal#refresh

(I wouldn't last two minutes on DW. THERE IS NOWHERE TO PUT PICTURES! LJ totally screwed up my Scrapbook, but at least it's still there. Here, I've got to use PhotoBucket /o\)

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Comments

[owlboy]

what's wrong wiv photobucket? I use that when I have to upload tons of things and Tumblr when I just have to upload one or two pictures.

[elisi]

Just extra work. And there's a limit. Which I have hit on several occasions. Also it's much slower than Scrapbook. /personal preferences

[owlboy]

there is?? weird! I've never hit it, and I upload 50-70 pictures at a time...

[elisi]

Well there certainly used to be. Unless you had a paid account. *tries to remember*

Not how many you could upload, but how many times they were linked to.

[sahiya]

On the other hand, there are lots of photo hosting options, and DW isn't a total jerk to its customer base on a semi-regular basis. (I gave up Scrapbook when I gave up my paid LJ account after the last round of asshattery - and that was before they screwed it up.)

[elisi]

Well, I know they're asshats, although this attack isn't their fault.

And it's like how the Tories are in charge at the moment and being utter bastards and destroying the country, yet I still wouldn't move.

I'm just stuck in my ways, I guess. (And DW just feels wrong. Nothing to be done about that.)

ETA: Half-asleep, hope I don't come across as snippy.

[sahiya]

Except that that analogy doesn't work at all. You might elect different officials in the future and then the Tories wouldn't be in charge - but I don't think LJ is ever going to be decent to fandom, ever again. They don't want to listen to their customers and they don't care about what fandom needs from them. They've made that abundantly clear.

As for DW "feeling wrong" - well, I don't know what you mean by that, but it seems like something could probably be done. It took me a while to start reading and participating on DW, but now I much prefer it to LJ. Finding a layout for my journal that I actually liked helped a lot.

[elisi]

I meant it mostly in the way of LJ being home. Although going with the analogy, then theoretically I could move to, say, Denmark where the quality of life is much greater. But I won't. I know LJ doesn't care (anymore), but I'll stick with it until it literally turns into Tumblr/facebook/twitter/whatever (I do not have any of those and am not interested).

Plus, no one of the DW layouts appeal to me. At all. But it's handy as a backup. :)

ETA: I think someone made this icon back on 2005, and it still holds true for me... Well, except that people do know that I'm here. ;)

[tenlittlebullets]

:( The whole LJ-asshattery/fandom-dispersal thing is just so sad. It wouldn't be so bad if everyone were moving to somewhere with better centralized archiving/search (trying to track down That One Fic/Post among a billion comms and personal journals is one of the few drawbacks to journaling as a fandom platform), but Tumblr is pretty much the opposite of that, and distressingly nonverbal to boot.

OTOH, Dreamwidth does feel right to me in a way LiveJournal hasn't since Six Apart and SUP started trashing the place--kind of like LJ Of Old, if LJ Of Old had put more work into implementing useful features their users wanted. But the critical mass just isn't there, even compared to the shadow of its former self that LJ has become. At least not in the circles I move in. The interface and spirit of it feel right, but LJ is still home and my LJ flist is still my homepage.

[elisi]

:( The whole LJ-asshattery/fandom-dispersal thing is just so sad. It wouldn't be so bad if everyone were moving to somewhere with better centralized archiving/search
I hear you. Bookmarking/saving stuff is VITAL. /o\

OTOH, Dreamwidth does feel right to me in a way LiveJournal hasn't since Six Apart and SUP started trashing the place
You know, part of me wants to feel that, but I just can't. It's just another clone - a nice one, but still just a clone. And oh, I've been around since before LJ had adverts, so I know the feeling of the thing just slipping through your fingers...

The interface and spirit of it feel right
See there is one of my main problems. It just doesn't feel right. It's like wearing other people's clothes, and they don't fit properly. (And there's not a single layout that I've taken to, so that doesn't help.) Mostly it all just makes me feel grumpy and curmudgeon-y and annoyed with LJ, yet determined not to move.

[promethia_tenk]

Native photo-hosting is apparently in the works. Which is not gonna help you now, but surely good to know for whenever the LJ zombie apocalypse finally hits and you have to flee the city : P

[elisi]

I'll buy a gun. >:)

(I suspected it might be. 'Tis what they do.)

[promethia_tenk]

Lol!

It's so strange to have Russian villians. It's like we fell asleep and woke up in a Cold War-era Bond film. With zombies.

[watervole]

Among my flist, the balance is starting to shift. There had been a slow trickle to DW for a couple of years, but I've seen what's looking like a bulk shift in the last week.

A lot of people I know are actually starting to post on DW, rather than just using it as a backup.

[elisi]

*nods*

Although thankfully they generally crosspost, so it doesn't impact all that much. I just wish LJ wasn't so eagerly pushing people away. :(

[promethia_tenk]

What you said. I look at my reading page and it's like, wow! There's . . . activity! Now part of that is me consciously moving whatever I can over, but part of it is also just enough people treating the site seriously.