shadowspar

One more bit re LJ, since it's on my mind what with their latest brilliant decision to let people crosspost comments they make on your flocked entries to Facebook or Twitter.

When I initially started out on DW, it was completely my intention to maintain a presence on both services, because I knew that some folks would never be bothered to pick up and move over here. As time goes on, though, I increasingly can't be bothered to crosspost my entries to LJ. Though I still read my friends page there every now and again, I just don't care to contribute to a site that doesn't cultivate the goodwill and community that DW does.

damned_colonial's excellent post about friends not moving over from LJ wraps up some of what's going on my headspace, I think. If you start hanging out in new places, you drift apart a bit from friends that don't tag along. It's not a value judgement of them as a person, just a reflection of the fact that each of us has a finite amount of time, and we're choosing to spend it in different places.

ETA: I'm not sure quite what the right way to put this is, but: while I'm annoyed and distressed at Livejournal's latest screwup sort of on behalf of the folks who are still heavily invested there, have I ever mentioned how great it is to be able to wipe your hands and go OMG NOT MY PROBLEM when something like this happens? Dear Dreamwidth and everybody who's contributed: thanks for being awesome. <3

Just moved my "professional" blog here from Posterous.

I know I'm not Posterous' target audience, but it drove me nuts how their formatter mangled my text, littering <br>s all over the place, then mashing up all the line breaks. More than once, I've found out that their post editor is flat busted for me -- usually when the formatter has made a mess of something I've already posted, conveniently making it impossible for me to clean it up.

Even better: back in December, they decided to bring Viglink on board, a service which adds a Posterous affiliate code to links in your blog that don't have an affiliate code already. Of course, they didn't see fit to inform their users of this change; one of the Posterous founders replied on HackerNews, but they haven't mentioned it on their official blog or twitter stream.

I know the folks here at DW will never pull that kind of stupid shit. To boot, Dreamwidth has always been rock-solid for me in terms of reliability, which is funny when you think about how often the lights seem to go out on the services with dozens of full-time staff and sacks full of money. In short: thanks, denise and mark. =)