I'm still here!

[newmoonstar]

I realize I've neglected online blogging for a while, due to a combination of being very busy with theater things and the uncertainty over the fate of LJ. Even though I'd officially decided to move over to Dreamwidth, I was clinging to LJ since it's still bigger and busier and I'm loathe to lose the active comms I have there. (There's a comm I'd love to import to DW, but I'm only a mod and I fear the owners are long gone, and I worry about losing that one particularly.)

But I think now with LJ's new user agreement upon us, it's finally time to be more active in my migration to Dreamwidth. I'm not going to delete my journal over there or anything, & I'm going to try to figure out how to cross-post DW entries to LJ, but I might disable LJ-side commenting. I think more of us trying to be active on DW might encourage others and liven things up over here. I'm still getting the hang of the differences between the two sites, and that'll probably take a while to get used to, but I'm going to try. I don't relish losing LJ one bit, since I've been there for such a long time & there's so many memories and so much history there. But if it becomes necessary to let it go one day, I'd like to be pro-active about creating something to take it's place. I'd like to think that if we could build up a fandom there, we can build up the same here too.

So, Hello Dreamwidth! *waves*

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

*waves*

Here's how to crosspost. Happily, I can say that at least is really easy! Good luck.

And, yes - we do seem to have reached the same conclusion, don't we?

[newmoonstar]

Thanks for the hint, that's good to know!

And yeah, I think at this point the most logical conclusion is to not keep all your eggs in one basket, particularly if the old basket has a user agreement that's only valid in a language you can't even read :/

[mandie_rw]

Yeah...the costuming community has been in a slow decline for years on LJ, but I think this may have finally been the push for enough people to leave that there aren't enough to keep up anything like an active community. Sad - I've been there for ten years, but I'm hoping we can make DW a viable alternative.

[newmoonstar]

Pretty much every corner of LJ has been on the decline for several years. At this point, there's only a handful of journals & comms I follow that are even still active over there, so as long as those few active users move over to DW, I don't think that we'll actually be losing much by moving. It's definitely sad to say goodbye after being on LJ since I was a kid, but since we seem to finally be transplanting ourselves all together, I think we can hang on to our sense of community and make it work.

[star_swan]

I am trying to get back into online blogging as well. Think I will keep both accounts for now. Have not been around much but I friended you over on LJ in 2015 and enjoyed your Doctor Who and costume things. :) Adding you here as well.

[newmoonstar]

Hi again! I remember your username- it's so helpful when those of us who moved from LJ have the same ones here. Adding you back. :)

[star_swan]

Hooray! :D (Yes. I am trying to retain my same one everywhere. Back in the day I had diff ones for each site. .__.)