Okay, let's give this puppy a try.....

[dragonheart]

with all the changes going on at LJ - a few of us are considering abandoning ship and moving on over to DW.

If that is the case, I should probley give this puppy a test drive....

Comments

[iam-space.livejournal.com]

Are you posting from DW?

[dragonheart]

yes, this was from DW.

Everyone is saying how easy DW is and how you can inport everything from LJ into DW, but I am not so sure.

I don't like the set up -I know it's new & different, and I don't always deal well with changes - I am thinking DW may not be for me.

I will play around with it some more and see.

Do you have a DW account? Another issue - a significant number of my friends don't have DW accouts.

Speaking of which - I haven't figured out to search for a DW user - that circle thing confuses me.

[direwolfdragon.livejournal.com]

I love the whole circle thing- subscribe vs. grant. With this, you can watch a personal journal (if someone has created an icon or fic journal as a personal journal instead of a community that you can watch) without giving them access to your own personal posts.

Here, unless you have a slew of filters, if you friend a journal that is pretty much just an icon journal, that person can read your personal entries. While I might like the icons someone puts out, I may not be ready to grant that access to my personal journal. On DW, I could just subscribe to their journal, get any updates on my friends page, but they would not have access to my flocked posts.

[iam-space.livejournal.com]

I just made an account there today: http://iam-space.dreamwidth.org/ :)
What's yours?

[dragonheart]

I am dragonheart over there.

I will add you to my circle!

[direwolfdragon.livejournal.com]

DW is great. My muse journals and most of my rp journals are already there. My personal journal will be based there as well now. No more money for LJ, this was the last straw.

[whiteink]

Always good to test drive puppies ... lol.

I'm hoping they fix it and we don't have to go anywhere ... but it makes some comm things rather impossible. Jamie switched our comments to match the layout so she had a subject box, but anything comment heavy (like bingo) is probably going to crash the page ... not to mention how messy to read it will be with lots of comments and such.

I love how they "fixed" something that wasn't broken.

What I really hate is the change to icons, because the pics won't load on my phone and I can't choose by word like before ... so I can't do any challenge from other landcomms from my phone because I can't use a sig icon. :(

BUT ... I love my LJ friends and won't jump without them. On dw I'm "whiteink" and I'll set up my writing comm tonight ... rumor is we'll be able to import comms soon (WHICH I REALLY WANT!!!! I've wanted that BEFORE all this becasue it would be a back-up site for my fics and I wouldn't have to work so hard to back them up!)

EDIT: What really irks me is the "they'll adjust" attitude we seem to be getting from LJ.

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

My own LJ style gives me the old stuff still but that doesn't work for journals that I haven't friended or whatever. And it sucks.

I'm currently in the process of importing my LJ to DW and see what happens to the links (like my fanfic masterlist... EEK) and if it doesn't work the way I want it to, I'll probably manually upload everything again to DW. At least this is giving me a chance to start ALL OVER with a NEW NAME. I want something shorter.

[dragonheart]

If you import from LJ to DW does it leave your LJ intact?

I looked at doing it and chickened out when it said "this is a irreversible process"

the word ireversible always scares me

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

Yes, it basically copies it. Well it should copy. But since you have to give your LJ name and password... ICK.

Hadn't thought about that. Here's hoping it's copying and not... deleting... So hold on until I give you the green light LOL.

The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[dragonheart]

crossing my fingers the "import" copies & doesn't delete.

Re: The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

Found you! So far it looks like all the links stay in tact... to LIVEJOURNAL. It just finished importing my tags, so I'm waiting for the entries.

And yes, so far it looks like it's just copying.

Re: The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[dragonheart]

whats your username there?

Re: The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

I'm using toomuchfandom there to see if the importing works the way I hope it works (converting LJ links to DW links). If it doesn't work, I'll register another one. I've seen that "Buggy" is still free...

Re: The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[dragonheart]

buggy is awesome!

I created another journal with the username dragonheart. I added you to my circle.

Re: The new me on DW - Dragonheart

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

just browsing through their FAQ now... you can merge tags! I think I'm in love... I had so many decisions to make when I was sorting my LJ tags and entries a few months back...

[swithers.livejournal.com]

I've never been on DW, clearly I should think about getting used to it though. I finally have time to get back on here and everyone is thinking about jumping ship lol

[dragonheart]

It's all the crazy changes that LJ is putting in place. I haven't decided definitively - but I am learning about DW just in case.

[proseac]

I think I'll play around with my DW account over the next few days - haven't done anything at all with it so far. I'll add you guys to my circle (or whatever the heck the terminology is! *g*)

I did cancel my automatic renewal for LJ. My account doesn't expire until June, so I'll be here for awhile yet, anyway. If we can move comms over there, we could still have ncis_verse. I would miss that if I jumped ship, for sure.

A couple of things I've read tonight suggest to me that there's no going back as far as the comment changes are concerned. For one thing, apparently they paid big bucks for this rewrite. Also, the attitude we're getting is very condescending..."oh, they'll get used to it" and such.They simply don't care that we're pissed off. Well, they WILL care very soon, because a LOT of people who are commenting on their release are turning off auto-renewal and are not planning to stay once their paid time expires.

Essentially, I could write a case study for a first-year university business school class on what NOT to do if you want to keep your customers happy, and use LJ as the model.