A thought.

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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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My opinion on dreamwidth - after I got an open ID code - was that all the cool kids (who knew each other in the fandom way back when) were moving house. And I hadn't decided what the hell I was going to do - never having been a cool kid in any fandom.

Then, tonight I got an invite code. And yes, I did migrate my LJ entries, comments and user icons (mind you, despite the gorgeous and damn easy to use migrate interface there are still a few beta-glitches) BUT I'm currently thinking of it as the fallback position to my IJ.

That account I got during strikethrough. Paid £30.00 for it and it's permanent. But I don't have objections to killing it if fandom jumps between here and dreamwidth. Instead of having an IJ & an LJ I'd have a DW & an LJ.

At least that's how I see it at the moment. Mind you, style coding still not where I want it and damn if I don't have to recode/url fix my fic-header post - for the third time.

What I really want is the archive of our own to come out of beta and become the primary home for my fanfic.