So I got up and left and after a three months break from blogging I got myself an account at lj and haven't looked back. Hell, I'm still trying to remember how so many RL people ended knowing my url anyways. But that's not the point, the point is I like lj much more, I feel safer, that only the people I want to read my journal are reading it.
This might be a very stupid and wrong assumption but it is the way I feel. I'm more relaxed and having much more fun keeping this journal than I did when I was keeping a blog at pitas. Maybe I've grown, maybe I've gotten a thicker skin, or maybe it's just that I no longer speak of the really personal things anymore, which ever, keeping an lj doesn't feel like an obligation that make me tired all the time anymore.
Beside being fun and relaxing, there seem to be less politics attached to keeping an lj. I know of the fiasco with the whole 'friending' thing but coming from keeping a blog. the pressure to friend people seem like child's play in comparison to linking people. I can't explain this very well, as I'm still trying to figure this out as well, but there is less pressure, at least for me, and all the irritation that comes with having an lj (down time, friending etc.) really does seem quite small in relation to blogs.
Mind you, this is all subjective, and if nothing else I know I might be over thinking this. People might have moved just because they were bored with blogger ^^;; But whichever, I'm rather curious as to why quite a few of you abandoned your blogs at blogger, pitas, or whatever other blogging server you were using and moved to lj? Some of you even did it without bothering to tell anyone, while others still keep an lj and a blog. Just what attracted you to lj, and what made you leave your blogs? And for those of you who keep two journals, how the hell do you have the time?
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For all the reasons you mentioned. Oh yes. And one word. Feedback. I can get feedback on my art from friends/strangers I don't usually catch online. I dislike the hubbub of art forums, to Ljs are the way to go.
As for the two journal thing, the pitas one is rotting away.
Glad you're getting the feedback you want ^^
I don't know. For me, I didn't like having to make layouts (course I hardly ever did) and there's the whole hassle or setting up which I didn't like. I also liked to comment on other people's LiveJournals.
Total agreement with the layouts. Sometime near the end of my Pitas stay I realised I was making layouts not b'cos I liked to but b'cos everyone else was making them. And that is just a stupid reason to do anything. Was slightly disgusted with myself.
Me too, commenting on other ppl's (or getting comments on your own journal) is so much easier. An, convenient and efficient ^^
I spent a good half a year text only (oh, those were the days). The only layouts I had were very simple. I think blog layouts are way too exaggerated. Most overly decorated blogs, the text isn't even readable without highlighting (and some you can't highlight).
Commenting is the best. One of the reasons I love Lj (besides the templates and LJ icons).
I think I spent a few months with very basic designs as well. There were a time that I went completely overboard with the designs. Then I learned what a bitch sites that were graphics intensive, used layers, and other scripts that doesn't shown on any other browser except explorer were. I stopped then.
Nowadays, I have major issues with badly made websites. I especially hate sites with small fonts, and links that isn't clear. You know the ones, where they think they're being poetic, naming links hearts of something or other, and not bothering to tell everyone what they mean. GRRR.
And everyone loves lj for the comments ^^ (i LOVE icons, I LOVE it).
As for why I abandoned my blog. It sure seems like more people read LJs, and I got tired of having a domain. I felt like I didn't have anything else to say in terms of sites. Plus I also did get tired of layouts.
There do seem to be stupid fandom wars associated with LJs, but IIRC a lot of blogwars didn't cross over, because they were associated with layouts or fandoms that don't really exist on LJ (like the X fandom)
For awhile there I felt like no one was reading lj... then I found out my RL friends, and people I liked online all had lj accounts. That was a bit of an eye opener. As for your website, I found the content on your site to be really useful and well, thoughtful. It's damn hard to find coherent essays on shounen manga outside of ljs. One day (when I finally get off my lazy arse) I'm going to make a site and I'm going have to beg you for those essays you wrote for your website. And yes, layouts was just getting to be a bitch to do.
I think that's exactly it, I was being dragged into stupid fandom wars becos of the series I liked, and the layouts I did. Bah, stupid conflicts that doesn't actually do anything. With lj I can sit in my little corner and just enjoy talking with ppl I find intelligent and interesting. Much more nicer. And sinceI'm not famous I'm pretty much below the radar for conflicts ^^
Aww, don't flatter me. I was thinking of reposting those rants in my LJ out of narcissism, and I'll certainly give you them for a site if you want them.
Yeah, layouts are a drag. See, I don't even have an icon now. It's nice to be a definite nonBNF.
I like making things, but layouts were just taking way too long, but ohhhh, how I adore icons. And a definite nonBNF is cool, I might even try it for a bit when I stop feeling the urge to make icons all the time.
I understand where you're coming from, due to your specific fandom position; but in my case, I find LJ more political. You see, I'm an ex-Harry Potter fandomer. Everything that you found with your blog experience, I found with my LJ experience. Potter people don't use blogs.
I'm sticking with my blog permanently. I like the fact it's on a domain that I have some area of control over. There's no abuse department for someone to whine to when they don't like my opinion. I can change servers whenever I like; if my host goes out of business, it's easier to move than if LJ takes a dive. My Movable Type-powered blog is easier to back up than an LJ.
I can see where you're coming from and seriously, with some of the lj wars that happen in HP fandom I'm not surprised why you'd avoid it like the plague.
Hmm, now I'm really interested in people who moved -from- ljs to blogs. This is really turning out to be very interesting.
I never had a blog and LJ is the first public forum I can truly call my own. And the freedom to post or not to post (and not have anyone telling you ~ POST!) is quite relaxing for someone like me. Damn, RL time is soooooo limited for me so it's very liberating for me to not feel the pressure to continually put my comments online.
There are probably a gazillion other reasons..... :)
In fact anyone actually reading this through the comments section; NONE of you have to reply back to my comments. Well, we are all very, very, very, lazy people ^^
I went straight to Lj simply because I have no html skills to speak of, and comments are much, much easier. And of course, I found out about communities much later. But depending where you go, I suspect there can be just as much politics--people are people are people. The Harry Potter fandom especially has had their own furious lj wars, all of which I more or less watched bug-eyed and vaguely amused from the sidelines. The anime communities seem to be quieter, but there have been a few tempers here and there.
Oh, and I have seen some of those HP lj wars. They get nasty. And yes I was quite shocked. And believe me when I say this I'm unbelievably glad that the anime fandom is relatively quiet in lj. I have my suspiscion that it is related to the fact that one can't be as flexible when it comes to layout changes.
I have a friend who doesn't understand the seeming need we have to put our lives online. I suppose, to an extent part of lives are online - especially when it comes to Diru for me.I think I communicate with more RL people online than I do face to face. Sometimes that distrubs greatly....
Me too. I think at one point I was spending more time online than anthing else. And that was bad. But then again, we are living in a time where technology rules supreme and the only way we can keep in contact with people we care about, and the things we are interested in is throught he internet. Not that we should spend all out time online or boycot the internet, it's jsut that we need moderation in everything.
My lj was supposed to be a ficlog (because they have nifty things like cut tags, and I didn't need to be schizoid about layouts), with my blog for everything else. But then it seemed that I never had anything interesting to /blog/ about, and fell out of the habit of social blogging - so my blog got neglected. And I found all sorts of fun people, fandom-wise, on lj, so that was that.
I miss the layouts, personally (can't figure out those damn overrides, so I give up), but yes, you /do/ fell pressured to update with a blog that isn't quite as bad with an lj (not to mention, lj is /evilly/ easy to use...)
As for the layouts... yes, I do miss them from time to time, but lately I've discovered a new obsession to replace the layouts... ICONS!!! I love icons!!! They are so pretty ^__^ But yeah, sometime I see a pic and I just know it would be perfect for a blog design and for a few seconds I get itchy fingers. But that's becoming less and less now. Adaptation is a wonderful thing. And lj i sso EASY to use ^^