liz_marcs | So, who's posting through Dreamwidth?

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So, who's posting through Dreamwidth?

I finally, finally, finally managed to get my Dreamwidth looking the way I want.

Yes, it looks like my journals on ElJay and EyeJay, but I know what I like and I know what works for me. It still needs a little tinkering (i.e., pulling over my icons and my customized mood theme), but on the whole it's up and running.

In looking at Dreamwidth, I'm actually thinking of using it to be my "centralized posting location" (so to speak), although I'm not 100% sure that it's the way I'm going.

So, my question to all you peeps out there is this: How many of you are going to be posting on Dreamwidth vs. ElJay vs. EyeJay, as in: all your posts are going to be pretty much the same between the two services?

I ask, because I'm trying to cut down on duplicate postings, especially now that I can actually see usernames on my Reading Page.

Gimme a shout-out to let me know.

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I've been posting everything through Dreamwidth. I'll probably keep doing that. I read my flist on LJ, IJ is dead for me. I have a very small circle there. Here? No idea. I'm hoping that all my friends who migrate here will find me and friend me. I'm hopeless at finding anyone myself. Glad you see you here.

The posting interface here is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

I'm still up in the air about how I'm going to differentiate, or even if I am.

It's kind of an odd position to be in, mostly because I don't want to simply name squat.

A lot of the reason why I never quite clicked with IJ is because crossposting was such a PITA, so right away DW is head and shoulders. I've only just now closed down commenting on my IJ account. I think I'm pretty much going to be using it as an online archive and that's about it.

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yanagi_wa - 2009-05-12 02:36 (UTC) - Expand

I thought I wouldn't use DW at all, but... LOVE it. Most of my flist is at IJ, and sometimes I post the same stuff, sometimes not.

It is nice and comfy here, isn't it?

I've been playing around with it behind the scenes and I'm pleased so far. *fingers crossed*

At least it's not the major headache that importing over to Wordpress would have been, that's for sure. And for some reason, I could never make IJ work well for me.

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aristoboule - 2009-05-12 02:45 (UTC) - Expand

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liz_marcs - 2009-05-12 02:51 (UTC) - Expand

My plan is to use Dreamwidth for fandom only, unlike LJ, which also gets into spirituality, bellydance, school, rantage about work, etc, or IJ which is a complete mirror of LJ. So if you're only interested in fic (own or recs) or meta by me (assuming you even are, which I don't assume), then following me on Dreamwidth would be the best option for signal-to-noise ratio.

Then I'll keep you on both. :-)

I know a lot of people are doing the separate RL and Fandom thing with DW, which is why I'm asking.

I'm trying to move over here mostly. But I'm not crossposting. So, circle/friend/watch/read as you wish. Which I would expect anyway. :D

I have a feeling a lot of people will be trying to sort out how they're going to use the two services, because it does make it fairly easy to do.

I'm not completely leaving LJ, because a lot of people who've been friends for years are staying put and not moving over here. IJ I never got into the swing of things there, for one reason or another.

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flyingcarpet - 2009-05-12 03:11 (UTC) - Expand

I crosspost some things and not others. It depends on whether the post is group specific or not. If I'm lazy and I don't have any of my accounts open, I use Semagic to post.

If I'm on DW I just crosspost. So far I haven't had time to fiddle with this account too much. I haven't even uploaded my icons 0_0. Jeesh I'm just now finishing up all the windows updates from my reformat last week. Sigh. Never enough hours in the day.

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I feel you on not enough hours in the day. I'm reaching the point where I should just probably do admin work via laptop over dinner. :-)

In all seriousness, I think people are still feeling things out. I'm just trying to get a good gage so I know who is safe to subscribe to on one service without having to do more than one...which was my big problem over on IJ.

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dreamweaver - 2009-05-12 03:17 (UTC) - Expand

I still haven't decided. I'm leaning toward DW for more fannish things, as I have a lot of non-fandom friends on LJ who have no interest in moving.

Well...I didn't realize you were on DW until this post (you're on one of my IJ accounts - nightstalker). I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing here; beloved spouse (nephir @ IJ/LJ) doesn't have a DW account and says she's not getting one, but who knows.

On your crossposting issue with IJ - I've never had any problems xpost to any of my journals, but I typically use Semagic to post with in the first place -- except it's not as useful for DW due to differences in the code. I do like the built-in crosspost feature here, with the ability to direct folks here for replies.

At the moment, I'm cross-posting almost everything to DW, IJ and LJ, but I kind of regard DW as "home" these days and occasionally post stuff here that I don't post anywhere else.

I'm posting from DeeWee and crossposting to ELJay. When I'll get a paid account, I'll also crosspost to EyeJay.

IJ/DW: I'm now using DW to cross-post -- that interface is lovely! -- but I decided that I'd keep site-specific posts exclusive (e.g. DW community recs are on DW only, and so on). However, because some people said they'd like to read those but still wouldn't want to read all the double posts (understandably) I'm going to link them in the regular entries. So one doesn't have to keep both journals friended.

At the moment, most of my friends are staying on LJ, which is fine by me—I look forward to when the DW reading page will pick up on my friends page.

Because my friends are there, I'm crossposting everything currently. I might on occasions write stuff purely for LJ, and less likey I might write stuff purely for DW, but I doubt it—I like it here too much (plus SB bought a seed account, silly fule).

I plan to use Dreamwidth as my primary location, because of the automatic crossposting. Plus I can actually be plain moss here (instead of moss6886). Yay!

LJ is still my main reading list, though.

I doubt I'll ever post anything on DW I'm not posting on LJ.

I'm using DW as my primary home and (for the near future) still x-posting everything to lj under my old username 'idhren24'.

I'm posting mostly on DW now, although I'm not posting much (as usual). I'm not crossposting.

I'm kind of getting attached to DW as my central posting ground, but since the majority of my FList is remaining at LJ, I'll be cross-posting the majority of posts. Sooper Sekrit Friends Only personal whining posts will probably remain locked up over at LJ, since most of the people on that filter are over there.

So, um... I guess it's up to you where you want to cut me. *G* I also still cross post to IJ as well, though I almost never get comments there.

Starting with my next post, though, I'll be cross-posting from DW as my hub, if that makes sense.

I will be using Dreamwidth as much (maybe more) than LJ, I think I'm one of those persons who love to complicate their lives so I will crossposts some times but there will be things that I'll post in LJ but won't do here, and there will be things I'll post here that won't be found over LJ.

The reason is that most of my friends are in LJ therefore, my personal stuff will be there, my DW is open and will be uncomplicated. IJ is pretty much dead, which is a shame but I'll crosspost my open posts there so basically it'll backup this journal.

Is great to find you here. :)

I'm planning to post to both, now that I have my old posts imported.

I just finished tonight with the whole importing thing. (My life has gotten busy...busy...busy...)

I don't even want to think about all the tagging I have to do on both sides. One thing importing showed me is that my tags are a mess.

I'm just namesquatting on DW and never intend to post there.

Fair enough. :-)

I'm just trying to figure out who's doing all-out duplication and who isn't.

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madripoor-rose.livejournal.com - 2009-05-12 01:40 (UTC) - Expand

I will be posting on DW, using the cross posting feature to LJ. Not everyone on my F-list is/wants to migrate to DW.

Oh, and deciding which service gets my $$$ and becomes my true default will depend on how DW works out between now and January. (Though I am still mighty tempted by a seed account)

Definitely not going all out over there, and not really intending to duplicate. I'm not entirely certain what I'm going to use DW for yet, and I'll probably end up posting my fic there, but I haven't quite gotten a good handle on it yet.

I haven't started posting on DW yet. But if (when) I do they'll be the same. I don't have enough content for 2 places!

I'll be posting to DW and using DW as my main account but cross-posting everything to LJ. :)

I'm going to use Dreamwidth to post re-edited versions of my fics, first, and LJ for photography and personal wibbling and any new stories I might miraculously write.

Julia, who knows, every day's full of new possbilities, right?

That sounds like what I'm doing.

I will be staying on LJ.

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