Oh, what in the fresh flaming hell is this shit.

[ceredwensirius]

I just read the whole "enhancement" livejournal has going on. Jesus Christ on crackers. These people really have no idea what their users want. My flist is full of rage about this cross-posting to Twitter and Facebook. I don't have either of these blog sites, but I don't particularly want my comments going to someone else's site. I mostly post fic, but I behind the flock, I also talk about work, my struggles to put my marriage back together, mental and physical health issues, and a variety of sundry things I don't want broadcast to people I don't know. Who thought this was a good idea? Want I want to know is what exactly this means:

• Once you enable Facebook and/or Twitter Connect, only your public LiveJournal posts (those marked as "Everyone") will default to cross-post, but you can override this on a per-post basis beneath the text box.

Um... so if I don't have a Facebook or Twitter does this not matter to me? Can my posts be pirated over to someone else's Facebook or Twitter (and doesn't Twitter have an extreme character limit? how would that even work?) without my permission?

 

• If you set your default to cross-post comments, ALL of your comments, including screened and Friends Only comments, can be cross-posted whenever you choose. Only public comments, however, will be preselected to cross-post. If you wish to cross-post a Friends Only or screened comment, you will need to select the cross-posting option manually when you post the comment. Of course, you can override your settings on a per-comment basis, so you have complete control over whether to cross-post each and every comment.

Here is where it gets interesting isn't it? If I'm trading comments with a friend on a post that is on her LJ, can she be porting my comments over to her Facebook or Twitter? What if it is an intensely personal conversation. That's just not right. Am I reading this right?

I have reasons to stay here. Namely everything is already here. I'd like to move to DW but there is no remusxsirius comm, no accio_rs_fics, no rs_prophet, no fandomsecrets, and while everyone talks about moving over, my DW is pretty lonely with only a few friends. Most of my "friends" are imported LJers from my flist. I have very few DW friends.

I like the concept of DW, but I don't like the price. I've already let my livejournal lapse, just sort of waiting to see if I'd have a reason to renew. Doesn't really look like it, even though I miss some of the features. DW doesn't have those features yet and when my profile, which I worked long and hard on, was imported it was just a mess.

I just don't know what to do. I'm not going to delete this journal and I don't feel the need to privacy lock my flock posts because I trust you guys. But occasionally I make an open post about what I'm doing in fandom. I did the other day and a friend and I talked about her life for a bit. For her privacy, I edited the post so it was friends only. That's just common courtesy.  But say I post a story and for giggles some asswipe flames me (I've actually never gotten a flame on LJ, but this is hypothetical), could they post their nasty comment to Facebook or Twitter? Could they post my story to their Facebook or Twitter? How exactly does this work.

In other news, I refuse to refresh my friends list because I am so nervous about the results from mp_ldws . I am walking away from the computer now, la la la la la. I'm a big scardy-cat.

Comments

[remuslives23.livejournal.com]

Results are in. :)

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

I'm not looking. I can't. I'm shaking in my trainers. See me? Me sitting here? Ostrich me? Me with her neck in the sand? Yeah, that's me.

*coughs*

Kinda hard to brea-

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

'm not looking. I can't.

Not even to see the pretty banners! Best ones yet.......

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

The phrase "ignorance is bliss" is really appropriate right now. I wasn't this nervous any of the other times. But I seem to have come down with the chicken pox.

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

You big chicken, go look at the gorgeous banners! Shall I tell you who won?! They all think you're unconscious right now. XD

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

No! No! No! Don't you dare!

*coughs up some feathers*

[remuslives23.livejournal.com]

And yes, if they quoted your flocked fic in their comment, it would appear wherever they Cross posted it. Your username and a link to your fic would appear with their comment so anyone who sees it and is so inclined could find their way to your journal, friend you, and read your flocked post.

It is horse shit.

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I keep my flist small. I talk about too much private shit behind the flock to friend just anyone. Everyone I've ever friended back I've gotten to know, liked, and wanted to know better. I didn't use to be so picky/fragile/stuck-up/fill-in-the-blank-with-an-adjective but I've been burned.

That said, it's still horse shit. I like to think I have a nice little circle of friends that I don't think would do this, but I'm just one person and everyone's friending policy is different.

Damn it. I don't want to go to DW. Everything is here.

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

Also, remember the last brainstorm? When they were going to purge accounts not updated in two years. And one of the many objections was that if you purged these users, people would lose treasured comments they made in others journals. "No," said LJ, "their comments in active journals would remain despite the purge."

I noticed just recently that the_birdnest deleted her journal. Now, none of her comments elsewhere can be read. Between that and the / tag debacle, shows these people are not taking their time or using the best programers. There will be all kinds of unforeseen problems with this.

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

When did the_birdnest leave fandom? Is that a recent thing? Didn't she used to be an editor for the quibbler_report? Man, I hate seeing people leave. She wrote the stories with Asteria not Astoria, right? I mean she was the one who was quite adamant about the spelling. I never got to know her, but her argument always struck me as logical.

That really sucks that everything journal she ever touched now has a void in it. There is something really depressing about that. I imagine this is true for franticbabbles as well. There is nothing left of their interaction with others. God, that's just... I'm not sure I have the words.

I just don't know how to move without everyone I know, every comm I watch, going with. How do you even do that?

Incidentally, those little boxes at the bottom of the comment window make me irrationally angry now.

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

Yes, the_birdnest was a writer, mod at a Draco/Asteria community and an editor at the [Bad username or site: quibbler report @ livejournal.com]. As far as I know, she purged both her personal and writing journal without warning. I noticed because of the strike through in her name when her last story posted at canon_fest so less than 3 weeks ago. Maybe two.

Do you know, LJ is offering to sell franticbabbles name? I'd spit!

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

Wow. Damn, I hope she's okay. I hate sudden departures like that. It always makes me worry, even for people I don't know.

Oh, man. I really hope no one wants her name. No one in the HP fandom would at least. Not without experiencing some nasty blow back at any rate.

[catbirdfish.livejournal.com]

Damn it. I don't want to go to DW. Everything is here.

Apparently it's really easy to import all your content to your DW account. I haven't investigated it yet, but I've heard this from several people. It's still a problem that LJ has a much larger proportion of active users and communities, but I'm hoping their latest fuck up will trigger the start of a mass exodus to DW. Like you, I'm not too worried about my friends cross-posting content. But I figure we shouldn't have to put up with LJ's horseshit. They obviously don't respect our privacy and, as someone else pointed out in another comment, "on a bigger scale it undermines the entire pseud culture here on LJ" (not my words, but I really liked that phrase). I don't know, it's possible to make DW fandom's new home if everyone agrees to move, including community maintainers.

Also, congrats on winning mp_ldws!

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

It is incredibly easy to import content over to your DW account. I do so regularly to keep that journal up to date. But there is nothing pretty about that journal and I'm not enthused about learning how to use CSS over there which is apparently a different beast than on LJ. My profile bio is written in basic html. It's a style sheet I got somewhere but it doesn't work the same. It's a big mess that I'm not sure how to fix and even if I did fix it, it would just get unfixed the next time I imported from LJ.

They don't respect our privacy, they don't give us the basic dignity of leaving comments from people we care about in our journals if they happen to leave LJ. Those are memories and good times and history and its all lost.

What would need to happen is that everyone agrees to move our interaction over to DW. There would need to be a sister comm on DW that mirrors in content, purpose and intent the existing comm on LJ. I'm not terribly hopeful for that to happen.

In 2007 a few comms managed the move over to IJ. daily_deviant, pornish_pixies, erotic_elves, among others. But most of fandom is firmly entrenched right here on LJ. How would a move enmasse even take place? I don't know that it could. I'm doubtful.

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

And thank you! I'm still reeling!

[padfootslover.livejournal.com]

I have Twitter (and I tweet pretty much all day), but I've pretty much abandoned my Facebook.

My problem is that I don't want people (my friends/family) on Twitter and Facebook coming over to LJ. LJ is the last place that I can vent without anyone in my everyday life seeing. It was a real black day when my mom joined FB and Twitter, don't get me wrong I love my mom, but we are a part of two very different generations and I don't always feel like editing my tweets so I don't offend her. Thankfully, she's never on twitter and I'm never on fb so it works out.

This is extremely annoying. LJ is doing way too much. I need them to calm down and keep things simple. If I wanted something on twitter or fb I would post it there myself.

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just looked at the pricing schedule for DW. I think I'm going to be making the move.

[padfootslover.livejournal.com]

I just created an account. Maybe LJ will learn when all of their members have left to leave well enough alone.