Looks like I'll be leaving LJ permanently very soon

[switch842]

With the release of the Friends Page redesign, LJ will lose all functionality for how I and probably 99.999999% of the people I follow use LJ. If this does indeed go live (and it probably will despite EVERY comment on that post being a negative DO NOT WANT), I will be gone. I will not be updating my LJ. I will let all my paid time and add-ons expire. This most likely means my icon and graphic posts will soon appear empty as I paid to have extra storage space for such things. I am working on an independent solution to that (Coppermine Gallery), but as hubby and I do not have a lot of experience with actually running a service like that, it's taking some time. I do have a dreamwidth (same username) and will begin using that. I also have an AO3 account for my fics and a YouTube for my videos.

I will be sad to leave the communities here, but I hope they can all find a new home on Dreamwidth.

Later, LJ.

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[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

I moved to DW just over a year ago and I don't regret it at all. I got all my user pics loaded, resurrected my mood theme, which had stopped working at LJ, and set auto cross-posting to LJ. Now I only follow friends who don't have DW at LJ, and follow all the others at DW. It's a bit of a pain having to follow two f-lists but its a small inconvenience compared to all the crap I had to deal with from LJ.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I'm sure over the next couple weeks I'll be getting things like that set-up over on my DW. At some point, I imagine I'll stop posting here entirely and just move 100% to DW. It's gonna suck losing some of the comms and stuff, but, oh well.... :-(

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

The main comms I follow have a dual presence, which isn't an issue, I just follow the DW feed, but if I want to see comments to posts in each, that can be a pain. Doesn't happen often, though. Hopefully everything will end up over at DW and normal service will be resumed :0)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Sadly, right now, I'm not seeing the same comm presence with Glee on DW and that is my main fandom right now along with SPN. I haven't done much poking around for Supernatural stuff, but that's mostly just fic comms for me at the moment. So, yeah. This is gonna be weird....

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this latest debacle spurs a mass migration. Thankfully most of my LJ friends and the vidding comms I follow moved fairly early on, so it wasn't too much of a hardship to follow along. It's just that now I have to check two sites since my f-list is split across both. What would be really cool is if you could get your LJ feed in your DW f-list. I wonder if they're working on that?

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I think if you have a paid account you can create an RSS feed of your friends page. Not sure how RSS feeds work on DW, but that might be a start....

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. I do have a paid account so I'll look into it :0)