Is this the last hurrah for LJ?

[graculus]

I really don't know. I can see a bunch of folks resolutely declaring that they have no intention of shifting off LJ and others moving over here, but maybe this isn't quite as much of a devastating blow to fandom on LJ as it would have been five or ten years ago. The days of the massive communities which were the heart of any given fandom seem to be in the past, unless there's stuff going on (which is quite possible) in fandoms I'm uninvolved with to give the lie to my opinion.

For myself, I really don't know either. I'd backed up to this account so my personal stuff isn't an issue, but I'll probably end up going over to LJ and having to agree to the TOS one way or another - I have a couple of communities which are slash-heavy but also not active for years, so perhaps it's time for some housekeeping. And then there's Danielpix, which I stopped posting to in January but feel differently about because of the significant part it played in my life for so long and the sheer size of it. Because it's picture-heavy rather than written, I doubt it's in such a vulnerable position unless LJ decides to start going after people for copyright violation, I guess. I'm tempted to just archive it, by removing everyone's posting rights, because deleting it seems wrong somehow.

In other news, I have escaped being saddled with the most annoying guy on my course as we get ready to do small group presentations. Just a couple more sessions of tedium and then I'm done for the year! And an observation tomorrow, which naturally comes when I'm tackling how you plan writing, possibly the most dreary part of the curriculum. Pah.

Better news came around when I told my boss I was probably going to need some more Saturdays off because I wanted to do some competitions - I've entered the first proper non-beginners one, which is in July but on a Sunday - I was pleased that her immediate response was 'well, I believe in work-life balance' and then she suggested we just list the course as less classes overall for the year and adjust the dates as required. Naturally, the competitions are not quite spread out evenly, because I'm roughly looking at one in early November, another early February and one late March, but that's also not too close together either. We're starting to plan next year's classes, so at least I should know within the next month or so what I'm likely to be asked to do from September, even if the exact Saturday dates may need tweaking once competition dates are finalised.

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[obelix]

Since I haven't been posting for well years on LJ, I've decided to delete all entries there and use DW instead.

My LJ is backed up here anyways so I'm moving. I'll keep my LJ account open because of some communities that haven't moved to DW yet but that's it.

Archiving sounds good, not like anyone is posting there except for you and it's your community :-)

[graculus]

It really feels like the end of an era, though - I was saying to someone last night that pretty much all my fandom life has been on LJ and although it's atrophied somewhat, leaving feels so very final in a lot of ways. I'm probably going to do similar to you and reluctantly agree to the TOS so I can clear everything out but stop cross-posting.

Other than that, hope everything's okay with you? :P

[obelix]

Yeah it does feel weird and final and like you most of my fannish life was on LJ.

Doing good, doing some non-planned reno's of the basement (dishwasher broke) thankfully that's covered by the insurance, working and that's about it.

[graculus]

Have fun with that! I'm currently re-painting the bathroom and cleaning everything now the light is strong enough I can see how much crud is on it. Happy times! :P

[obelix]

The silver lining is that I get a new floor, walls painted in a colour that's not yellow and the contractor had time so he painted the baseboards and trim and it's all paid by the insurance, will look like a new basement!

That's the one good thing of having moved into a newish smaller house, much less cleaning ;-)

[rach_74]

LJ does seem to have died and fandom moved on, but it feels to me like a chapter has closed. LJ was such a massive part of my fannish life.

[graculus]

Ditto. Unfortunately it's not been replaced in any way by somewhere else for actual conversations - much as I love Tumblr for a) nice pics, and b) seeing what new fandoms are about, it's not set up for actually talking about anything!

[xochiquetzl]

I really enjoyed my Tumblr experience until I followed tags. ;) The tags are a seething pile of wank, alas. I'm blocking anyone who posts hate or wank in the tags I follow with reckless abandon. That's making my Tumblr experience a lot happier.

That said, yeah, it's terrible for actually discussing anything, posting fic, etc. As part of this whole LJ thing, I went and downloaded all the comments on my Lusty Month of May fic--a challenge to write 500 words of a story every day--and that would never have worked on Tumblr.

[graculus]

I'm very selective about who I follow and unfollow people readily (or use the xkit blacklisting function liberally) - life is too short to put up with idiots and arseholes!

But yep, crap for discussion.

[xochiquetzl]

I haven't fully decided what I'm going to do, but the options I'm considering are

1. Crosspost with comments disabled and links to DW.
2. Archive my LJ.
3. Delete my LJ.

Actually, I've already changed my settings to do #1.

Sadly, my most prolific commenter is one of the "not going anywhere" crew.

[graculus]

I've decided against cross-posting but again there are folks/communities I don't want to lose touch with over on LJ so gafiating completely doesn't really seem like an option.

[xochiquetzl]

Yeah. I don't want to completely lose track with the two people on LJ who comment on my posts there often. I suspect that the "comment on Dreamwidth" option might vex them, actually, but, well.

[amycooper]

LJ has been quiet for some time now. Tumblr's pretty active but...not the same. There isn't much sense of community over there.