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terrikoI'm moving my journal to Dreamwidth: http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/.
There's a few reasons for this move. Dreamwidth is a neat new project with a lot of women involved, and I love supporting women-friendly projects. Dreamwidth's values seem pretty sound, and match up better with my own. They've made some nice improvements to the codebase that make the whole system nicer to use. And they let me have a nice, ad-free journal (turns out those ads bugged me a lot more than I thought they would).
What does this mean for my old journal? It's going friends-only, although I'll probably cross-post so that people can still see my entries on their friends pages. So if you're reading this on lj and you're not logged in, please update your bookmarks, otherwise everything should continue the same for you because I've already updated the aggregators to use the new url. You can all comment on the new journal using OpenID (just give your lj url as your OpenID and go), and if any of you are interested in moving to Dreamwidth, you can try it out using openID or drop me a line to get my unused invite code.
There's a few reasons for this move. Dreamwidth is a neat new project with a lot of women involved, and I love supporting women-friendly projects. Dreamwidth's values seem pretty sound, and match up better with my own. They've made some nice improvements to the codebase that make the whole system nicer to use. And they let me have a nice, ad-free journal (turns out those ads bugged me a lot more than I thought they would).
What does this mean for my old journal? It's going friends-only, although I'll probably cross-post so that people can still see my entries on their friends pages. So if you're reading this on lj and you're not logged in, please update your bookmarks, otherwise everything should continue the same for you because I've already updated the aggregators to use the new url. You can all comment on the new journal using OpenID (just give your lj url as your OpenID and go), and if any of you are interested in moving to Dreamwidth, you can try it out using openID or drop me a line to get my unused invite code.
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Date: July 22nd, 2009 04:20 pm (UTC)I suspect the Dreamwidth move is more a statement of support than a technical decision? In which case the Dreamwidth girls should feel very lucky to have you setting up camp in their corner!
-Jay
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Date: July 23rd, 2009 04:36 pm (UTC)1. I don't want to risk my spending a bunch of time tweaking software, etc.
2. I gain access to a reasonable community that I wouldn't have in my self-hosted location.
Both those reasons are why I use flickr instead of hosting my own galleries, and they're why I was using lj at all. #1 is the real kicker for me right now, since I'd really rather hack than write, but I can't afford to be doing that.
So it is a statement of support that I'm fairly sure the dreamwidth folk will do such a great job that I won't be too tempted to hack for a bit. But it's mostly about keeping my distractions to a minimum until I've got that last degree done.