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[dragonimp]

I've set up a journal on dreamwidth. I'll still be keeping the LJ accounts, and you can comment over there using open ID. But now I need to decide how much I want to move.

[Poll #1395496]

I really like the layout currently on impishclawmarks and dreamwidth's styles are currently a bit sparse, but I much prefer dw's adult content filters. So, merge or keep separate? If I turn dw into a fandom journal, I'l probably merge it with the fics. But if I move over wholesale, I'm kinda leaning to keeping the fics separate.

Comments

[pandoraculpa.livejournal.com]

I'd vote Have Your Cake and Eat It Too if that were an option.

The way DW is set up, there's no reason why you can't let the sites mirror one another. Move both personal and fic journal there (their importing function is fantastic- fast, and it includes comments, filters, icons, you name it), and still keep LJ as well- DW allows you to crosspost from their posting page, filters and all. Personally (and this is just my opinion), I like the idea of redundancy. Of course, I'm also a paranoid person, and always worried that I'm going to lose things through some terrible crash. ;) I'm just weird that way.

And I think we'll be seeing a lot more style enhancements on DW soon. After all, the site is still in beta, and debugging the major problems have been taking precedence over beautification.

I get the impression that there's going to be a lot more freedom over content, and less stress about posting things there. It's the one big fandom-issue thing that has worried me here, ever since the strikethrough debacles of a couple years ago. Neither I nor anyone I directly knew was affected by that, but the implications bothered me a great deal. And while FMA isn't the lightning rod that HP is/was, there's still room for the same kind of issues there if someone was to get a bug up their ass and decide that all these fics about Ed getting laid MUST be pedophilia or some nonsense. DW just feels like a safer place in that regard.

I'm probably babbling now... sorry, I'm a little foggy-headed this evening. I'm going to see how much of fandom ends up shifting over to DW- it's definitely going to be my headquarters for fandom-related material (if only because I won't feel obliged to f-lock it like I do here). And I'll still crosspost to LJ for the time being, but if the majority of folks drift that way, I might end up phasing out my fandom posts on LJ, and leaving it the more general stuff. *shrugs* My DW journaling is in beta, too. ;)

And I'll stop rambling now. :)

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of mirroring. I had been mirroring my fics on IJ, but it was kinda a pain. But I still can't decide whether I want to keep the fics separate or just have one DW journal.

[greedy-lover.livejournal.com]

Psst. I want to make one. Message me the invite code? ^^

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I will, as soon as they give me some ^^;; I don't know how long that'll be.

[fullmetalrose.livejournal.com]

I have a permanent account here so I won't be leaving but if I get an invite I'll set up me an account and my user ID there but that is all. But if you like the adult filters then I'd merge both there if you won't to cross post ^^ ... I flock everything BUT fics and birthday/holiday wishes.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I probably will be cross-posting, at least for a while.

You can comment on DW journals using your LJ user ID. You just sign up using the "open ID" option.