That said, I know some people don't like dreamwidth, and I've never got a real clear read on why that is?
My reasons for not wanting to move to DW are irrational: I dislike change. I feel like I've just started to get a handle on blogging and fandom and made myself a little niche here, and I feel like I'd have to start all over again if I moved to DW. Also, all of my fics are posted on LJ, and I dislike the idea of having multiple archives. I also don't have a paid account on LJ (yet; I keep wanting to get one so I can edit comments and make polls, and then another cock-up like this happens), so as a customer I have less to lose.
That said, if there were a concentrated move of Spuffy fandom to DW, I would probably move, too, b/c I value you guys more than I value consistency of fandom's home.
I'm not really sure I see a big move happening, though. You mention SS moving, but in my unprofessional opinion, I don't think this round was as big a success as previous rounds have been. I think participation was down, and I'm even more confident that commenting was down. I feel like the fag_ends Mortifex prompts have inspired almost as much fic (post-wise, not by word-count, obviously) in one week as SS did in a month. Even if we got communities to move to DW, I don't think everyone would follow. I think some people would stop participating in fandom altogether.
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My reasons for not wanting to move to DW are irrational: I dislike change. I feel like I've just started to get a handle on blogging and fandom and made myself a little niche here, and I feel like I'd have to start all over again if I moved to DW. Also, all of my fics are posted on LJ, and I dislike the idea of having multiple archives. I also don't have a paid account on LJ (yet; I keep wanting to get one so I can edit comments and make polls, and then another cock-up like this happens), so as a customer I have less to lose.
That said, if there were a concentrated move of Spuffy fandom to DW, I would probably move, too, b/c I value you guys more than I value consistency of fandom's home.
I'm not really sure I see a big move happening, though. You mention SS moving, but in my unprofessional opinion, I don't think this round was as big a success as previous rounds have been. I think participation was down, and I'm even more confident that commenting was down. I feel like the fag_ends Mortifex prompts have inspired almost as much fic (post-wise, not by word-count, obviously) in one week as SS did in a month. Even if we got communities to move to DW, I don't think everyone would follow. I think some people would stop participating in fandom altogether.