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[lirazel]

So there's shit going down, and I'm like...what if we actually all did move over to dreamwidth? Like, I feel like the entire Spuffy community could actually get together and emigrate over there. The reason I haven't is because most everyone is still over here, you know? But seasonal_spuffy's over there now, which I feel like is our central kind of thing that holds us together? Is su_herald there? And then if we got sb_fag_ends and fantas_magoria over there, too (which they may already be cross-posted, for all I know) plus all of our personal journals (I already have one, I just don't use it except occasionally I import my lj over there as a sort of backup), that would pretty much take care of everything, wouldn't it?

I'd be willing to buy more icons over there and get a paid account and everything if I knew that y'all were going to be over there, too. I'd say about 75% of my flist is from Buffyverse fandom. And I'd be willing to continue to crosspost over here for the people who aren't, and of course I'd want to keep up with people who stayed and stuff.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily something that we need to do. And I remember when dreamwidth first started being petrified that fandom would splinter and I wouldn't know how to find people. But if the majority of us made a decision together, I think it would be workable.

Because the privacy stuff that's going on here kind of freaks me out. And lj seems to have about as much respect for its userbase as tumblr does, which is saying something. I can't say that most of the problems with lj are things that affect me personally, because they don't (not being someone who rps or makes a lot of changes to the css). But privacy is different. That affects all of us. And it's unacceptable that people are being logged into other people's accounts, including those of people who are selling things via lj and whose inboxes contain information on other people's paypal accounts, addresses, etc. The fact that the management here hasn't seen this as something that needs to be dealt with is what makes me think we might be better off on another site.

That said, I know some people don't like dreamwidth, and I've never got a real clear read on why that is? So if you have strong anti-dreamwidth feelings, do you mind letting me know what your reasoning is? I'm sure there are legitimate complaints, I just don't know what they are.

Anyone got any thoughts? Again, not saying that this is something that definitely needs to happen. I'm going or staying wherever the majority of fandom is. But I'm thinking, you know?

Also, the new font in the entry box is FUGLY. The Fug Girls would not approve.

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[rahirah]

That said, I know some people don't like dreamwidth, and I've never got a real clear read on why that is?


1. It's not LJ. People hate change. They hate other people telling them that the thing they like may not be as good as that other thing over there even more.
2. Several of the founders were involved in the LJ Abuse team back in the day, and apparently made enemies
3. At least one of the founders is/was a BNF in some Stargate-related fandom, and BNFs always attract wank
4. At the beginning, there were a number of people who predicted that it would fail financially within a year or two, so why bother?

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

There's also the history of mass panics and exoduses to other journals (Insane, Great, who-the-hell-remembers? journal) every time everybody got bent out of shape about something LJ was doing. All of those came to naught, so it was hard to take the move to DW seriously when it first started. It does seem to be a going concern at this time, but I can remember feeling annoyed when it first opened and everyone was all "I'm going to DW". Having said that, I'm there too and it was relatively painless to transfer all my LJ stuff over. And I did go ahead and make that personal account on there - although I don't update it very often.