That LJ Anniversary Thing

It's sad that just as I'm reaching my tenth anniversary, I'm abandoning LJ. But I have no choice.

Dreamwidth is, by leaps and bounds, a much better platform and I'm only sorry that it's taking so long to discover that. It's not just that the owners have pledged not to (1) make this ad-supported, (2) take on outside investment, and (3) never interfere with legal content - which are all HUGE things. It's that they are incredibly responsive to users.

For example, one of the issues I knew I'd have with running the challenge comms here on DW would be scheduling postings. The FAQ was ambiguous and there were hints that this was possible, so I opened a support ticket. I had an answer within an hour (no official way to schedule a post YET, but if you have an email client which permits scheduling emails, you can use that to post via email. And the email posting set up is fantastic.)

Another example: I've got a lot of communities that I manage on LJ that need to be ported over. But DW has a limit on the number of comms a member can create in a week (3). That would mean I'd need about two months to get everything set up here. So I opened a support ticket and denise agreed to lift/increase the comm creation limit (apparently in the early days, people were being jackasses and claiming comm names pre-emptively).

There's a lot to explore here on DW - features that I had no idea existed (turn on the Test Beta Features function and you'll get a brilliant new Create Entries page). I'm looking forward to becoming an active journalist again.

In the spirit of being more present on Dreamwidth

I've cleaned up the long list of "sticky" posts at the head of my journal. For years, I'd been using it as a place to park bingo cards, MMOM master lists, Fic-Can-Ukah lists and other sundry items I'd wanted to find easily. Many of those were private (and thus not impacting anyone scrolling through my journal) but a lot weren't. The MMoM Masterlists have been consolidated, as have the Fic-Can-Ukah lists (and those do need to be updated).

Will probably do a lot more maintenance on my journal - I'm pretty certain there are a lot of duplicate entries. And I still need to go through my posts and relink all of the images since the public folder on Dropbox is going away. Thank you kanarek13 for the instructions on how to easily fix that.

Can't believe the weekend's almost over. Also can't believe it was over 80 degrees today and I put the AC on.

Happy Easter to everyone who celebrated. A zissen Pesach for those who are still celebrating.