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red herrings
(I kinda can't believe I even have to make this post and I am definitely not the right person to be doing it, but seriously?)
okay, look, I hate the newest LJ redesign as much as the rest of you, although due to the specific ways I use LJ (ie. almost entirely in small fandom communities & other people's personal blogs - I've rarely used my own personal LJ) I am less impacted by them than most fandom users. HOWEVER, the DW evangelism is getting grating. It's a site. It provides you with services in return for you providing it with a product. It will not be forever free from wank, technical issues or censorship and it would be naive to believe that it would even if.
Its admin is a human being who has spent an awfully long time in the LJ fandom limelight, which is to say that many of us know where the bodies are buried. If this is somehow shocking news to you and you therefore wish to examine some shallow graves, there's Yonmei's story about receiving sexual harassment and rape threats on LJ, this post about the more blatant hypocrisies of Nipplegate, and more recently there was the Mitchellwank declaration that fanon (or canon) creators should be able to tell you what to write which was relevant to me personally because it had so much in common with the (minor, but ngl it hurt) incident that raised my ire in the first place. If your desire to rehash wank is not sated by all that, google will be your friend. But the worst, most personal incidents that I am aware of are not things I can simply link to or even speak about. Life is like this; horrible things happen, and they happen more often around some people than others, and even on the internet our histories go largely unrecorded except perhaps in the jigsaw-puzzle of logs and links and stories. I am getting a little bit tired of people who expect the future to be a whole lot different.
okay, look, I hate the newest LJ redesign as much as the rest of you, although due to the specific ways I use LJ (ie. almost entirely in small fandom communities & other people's personal blogs - I've rarely used my own personal LJ) I am less impacted by them than most fandom users. HOWEVER, the DW evangelism is getting grating. It's a site. It provides you with services in return for you providing it with a product. It will not be forever free from wank, technical issues or censorship and it would be naive to believe that it would even if.
Its admin is a human being who has spent an awfully long time in the LJ fandom limelight, which is to say that many of us know where the bodies are buried. If this is somehow shocking news to you and you therefore wish to examine some shallow graves, there's Yonmei's story about receiving sexual harassment and rape threats on LJ, this post about the more blatant hypocrisies of Nipplegate, and more recently there was the Mitchellwank declaration that fanon (or canon) creators should be able to tell you what to write which was relevant to me personally because it had so much in common with the (minor, but ngl it hurt) incident that raised my ire in the first place. If your desire to rehash wank is not sated by all that, google will be your friend. But the worst, most personal incidents that I am aware of are not things I can simply link to or even speak about. Life is like this; horrible things happen, and they happen more often around some people than others, and even on the internet our histories go largely unrecorded except perhaps in the jigsaw-puzzle of logs and links and stories. I am getting a little bit tired of people who expect the future to be a whole lot different.
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I mostly got fed up with LJ because of the attitude the designers are taking that user feedback, especially PAID user feedback, is unimportant. So far, DW seems to be really positive about moving our 1 million+ comment RP community over and has been helpful in letting us cut ties with LJ so from a customer standpoint, I'm satisfied.
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LJ are definitely waving the failbat proud and high lately. I find it interesting that after neverending wanks about censorship and so on it's a features issue that's driven a final exodus. This is surprisingly apolitical as fandom wanks go. But there is no excuse for all the sparklerainbow dreamwidth posts I keep seeing, none. BE CYNICAL GUYS, IT WORKS EVERY TIME.
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If those things happened now, you'd better damn believe I'd be raising cain about it.
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I held out against Dreamwidth for a long time because I knew (mostly from you, but also from other sources) about the issues you mentioned in your post, and I figured the perfect blogging site run by people with no skeletons in their closet didn't exist, so I'd just stay with LJ, because apart from not having ads, I didn't see what was so great about DW anyway, and I have years of history and friendships over there that I was loathe to leave behind. Times change, I guess, and I definitely plan to start using Dw for more than just creeping your journal.
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I bet you're right about most people staying, especially if they let people keep the old layouts/comments if they want to, but I find it interesting that most previous LEAVING LJ FOREVAR wanks have been more political than features-based - now it's about how the site functions, this exodus feels more sticky than the rest have. I guess we'll find out.
also, hush, if this is creeping I don't wanna be SSC
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(Thene, I initially joined this site just for you.)