Considering moving everything over to Dreamwidth

[redbird]

Would you be inconvenienced if I moved this journal mostly or entirely to Dreamwidth? Mostly would be cross-posting, but comments only on the DW side; entirely would be nothing posted to LJ except brief link posts, pointing to that week's posts on DW.

LiveJournal is once again inserting redirects and affiliate links on most outbound links. Apparently this round is better coded, and is no longer stripping existing links. But it seems that they are doing this to all accounts: and one of the reasons I've been paying for my account there is to avoid advertising. (I don't love that they have ads, but it's one thing to have that as the tradeoff, and another to have them dropping in links even on paid accounts.)

Part of the annoyance is that they haven't announced this: they could perfectly well have put it in a news post, as "in order to help pay for the servers, we're doing X, here's the code if you want to opt out."

Instead, they waited for people to stumble across it, and when someone asked in the comments on the most recent news post, claimed that it was "transparent." As another user pointed out, if you're being transparent, you announce things, you don't wait for the users to stumble on them.

Mechanics: if I did move everything to DW, you could either comment using OpenID, pay a few dollars to start an account on Dreamwidth (it will revert to free when the paid time expires), or look on the dw_codesharing community on Dreamwidth or the dreamwidth community on LJ for an invite code.

If you want to move over and money is tight, talk to me: I have a couple of invite codes.

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I'd most likely only follow the links to your Dreamwidth posts occasionally and reply even less frequently than that.

I set up a Dreamwidth account as soon as they were available and paid for 6 months because I wanted to support the effort. I soon discovered that I didn't really know what I wanted to do with that account and have since let it lapse.

Facebook seems to be where everyone is now. I still object to the FB terms of service and haven't signed up. Between FB and DW, LJ seems to be on the way out, or at least in a very real slump. There's nowhere else I really want to go yet, so I'm likely to be one of the last to turn out the lights here. I always have been one to let a party die its natural death.