A thought.

[hackthis_archive]

My issue with The Great Dreamwidth Migration Or Something Like It, is not that people are going, or not going. If you go, have at it, i've got an OpenID, I'll stop by -- if you stay, I'll see you around. It's not that I've been offered a code or haven't been offered a code. I do think there is something a little Supply and Demandish about it, in that the fewer codes there are the more people want them and the more it becomes almost a status symbol, and then other people want them because they see other people wanting them. But that's not my point either. I am neither pro-Dreamwidth nor picking up the pitchforks. I haven't done the homework, I haven't tested the application. It could be the best thing since the Notes App on my IPhone, I dunno. I am not making any call or pissing in somebody's sandbox.

The issue I have is that there seems to be this immense pressure, not from one person or even one direction, but just a overall press that 'Everyone Must Go!' like the house is going to burn down around us if we don't get out now. Like if you don't get out of LJ now you're going to be left behind, and that, to me, that's just not cool. That, to me, takes a lot of fun out of something that indeed might be great. But, you know, that's just my opinion.




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[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I know I'm grumpy, but from what I can see, it feels like being on Dreamwidth right now would be a lot of work. I can't be arsed to hunt down an account and work out how to copy over my LJ when, I know it's nice people and everything, it's basically just another version of LJ. But much much smaller.

But I know there's a group of people who are fundamentally unhappy with LJ after 6 Apart, and they actively do want to move. Maybe. Everyone else, I don't know. I don't feel like that; I don't feel that I have any particularly good reasons to want an alternative or even a backup to LJ, but folk are indeed flocking to get invite codes and there is some weird anxiety about missing out, to the point where I have to take myself firmly in hand. I think my f-list is about one-quarter yay!, another quarter grabbing the invites and the rest going bzuh?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Exactly, I undestand that there are people who are unhappy with LJ and that they've been seeking alternatives... Greatest Journal... Insane Journal... shit I don't even remember. And that is their right, more power to them, because that's what you do when you're unhappy, you move on. And you know, if I was unhappy I'd actively be looking to move too, none of this is my issue. My issue is the way it's turned into this almost snowball of 'I have one! I don't have one! Am I going to be left behind? Will I be the last one? I don't want to be last!' That sense of anxiety makes ME anxious and I don't want to be anxious, I have enough shit to deal with.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Yes. I found myself getting all worried because I didn't have an invite and lots of people around me were getting invites, to the point where I have to sit myself down and remind myself that a) it's not even open and b) it honestly doesn't appear to do anything different. Also c), I am too overwhelmed by the rest of my life to spend much time worrying about it.

Plus, I really think that the wank that I have seen about LJ could be repeated almost anywhere with any service (dreamwidth has the under-14 comment-warnings, for example); and to some extent, therefore, the current impetus for some people to leave is perhaps more about wanting to move on from an overfamiliar, old relationship than anything that's really about the relationship itself.

I...kind of think that SUP gets it, actually. Most of the changes they make are sensible. It is certainly a shame that they sacked people but at the end of the day, it's a business not a charity, and this is a godawful recession.