Where I am posting: The Official Statement

[icarus]

wildebeth asked me yesterday, so I thought I'd better make an official statement:

The Official Statement

I'm sticking with my original plan outlined in Fifty Ways To Leave LJ (without unduly inconveniencing yourself).

- First, I'm crossposting to JournalFen, GreatestJournal, and Livejournal (icarusancalion on all).
Everything will be available in all three journals (unless I screw up and forget to use Semagic). I'm not posting on InsaneJournal (despite the fact that I like Squeaky) because I don't want to invest in a paid account when I've always been free here. Sorry. I'm cheap. *g* ETA: a friend wondered "what if someone bought it for you?" Oh, please don't. There are more worthy causes than giving me a toy, especially when I have three others that are free.

- I'm taking the time to find my friends in all of these places, rebuilding my infinitely valuable f-list.
I'm not choosing which journal to use based on the size of the flist, however, but on comments. This is because people are leaving LJ but not deleting their accounts.

- I'm linking to stories off-site.
This is to get people into the habit of linking to my website and not my journal for stories in case of deletion, plus it allows me to track hit counts. The exception is of Out Of Bounds which I'll post to all three journals. On the journal it's in chapters, while the main file on my site is just one long story.

- I've not gone back to link my old stories off-site.
I did two. I learned that it's a real pain in the tushie.

- Once everyone's in the habit of linking to stories on my site or on archives like Wraithbait, I'll look into moving.
I'll move at my convenience, on my schedule, and not LJ's. I'll decide based on which journal people seem to be reading, based on where they comment.

- I'll be just as random about reading my flist anywhere as I've always been here.
Since I'm still on dialup, I'll still mostly lurk too, just as I always have.

Backing up my journal has been a nuisance, though probably good and wise and I should have been doing this all along. I'm angry with Livejournal, I really am. They've treated us badly and this week has been a pain in the ass.

This has been a public service announcement.

Comments

[cheshyre]

I do hate the idea of people deleting or locking their existing LJ posts when they move on.

Because that means not only backing up my own posts, but... well... you've had some really great comment threads that I've participated in. And I'd hate to either lose access to those or exhume them and have to make personal backups of those as well. :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I locked a lot of my NC-17 material during the FanLib debacle and have never gone back to change that, but they're only f-locked, nothing more. Even if I decided, "Gosh, I'm going to sell the computer and go live in a cave in the mountains" I'd leave the journal as is. That's what most people are doing as well. bookshop deleted, I believe, or was going to (I think I'm right about this... could be wrong) but otherwise.

I find myself scoping out my flist on Journalfen. The design there is so clean and simple, I find it easier to read than Greatestjournal.

Icarus