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.




And on a wholy unrelated Southland note: HOLY FUCKING COW, JOHN COOPER + REGINA KING FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN. *\o/*

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[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

I kind of worried when it seemed like one day last week my flist exploded with people extolling the virtues of DW. I had heard about it, but that was some time ago, and of course they've been developing it since then. I thought, well, what the hell, it looks like I might as well at least set up a free account (like I did with IJ) so that if things go south I have someplace to go. Now that I've figured out how to xpost to IJ and DW I probably will most of the time, but LJ is still my primary home, and I don't see that changing unless everybody leaves (and the vibe I'm getting from my flist now is that they're not leaving - even many of the ones who've gotten accounts aren't moving). So yeah, I get what you mean about the panic, but I'm hoping it's calmed down. I'm mainly interested in what's going to happen with the OTW journaling service - that I might move for, but again, it would have to be after a mass migration of most of my flist.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I'd been hearing bits and pieces about it, like you do, but then suddenly there was like a mass proliferation of:

'I GOTZ ONE!'
'I DON'T GOTZ ONE AND NOBODY LOVES ME'
'YOU ARE GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND IN SODOM AND TURN TO DUST IF YOU DON'T GET ON THE TRAIN'

And that... that's off putting.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

'YOU ARE GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND IN SODOM AND TURN TO DUST IF YOU DON'T GET ON THE TRAIN'

I...quite like it here in Sodom, actually. :D

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I'm saying...I'm cool. I have a pool now and everything. And a whole shed full of toasters. It took me a long time to earn those toasters.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, toast. :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Toast is awesome.