Watchin' The Tumbleweeds

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Ah, someone else reminiscing about the glory days of LiveJournal.

I do miss the community, and the golden age of Metaquotes. But I still post here. Good way to make sure nobody ever reads what I write, I guess.* I know everyone migrated, first to Dreamwidth (is that still a thing?) and then to Tumblr, but I'm really bad at changing venues. Hell, I still have a HOTMAIL account as my main email.** I'd say I'm already bitching about the Kids These Days, but to be fair I've been bitching about them since I was six years old. (And anyway, Tumblr's layout is bullshit. I never realized how well-set-up LJ's comment system was until I tried to figure out Tumblr's.)

Ah, well. Even if the site itself is never restored to its former glory, its legacy lasts. I've met a lot of good friends on here who I keep up with through other networks. And I even went to Chicago last year to attend the wedding of someone I met on here! So even if all we have are memories, my goodness, we have memories.

And I'll still keep posting here. It's hard to get me to change, You may have noticed.


*Just kidding! Those of you who are still around are great.

**I keep trying to get rid of it, but it's so much easier just to keep the damn thing.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

LJ has the best comment system I've ever seen. But a good comment system doesn't mean much when most of the people I'd want to discuss things with aren't on that platform anymore :P

I do like tumblr, but I like it for different reasons than LJ. I keep meaning to start posting over here again, but whenever I open that window, it all goes right out of my mind. Tumblr's easier to just sort of stream-of-consciousness little bits into.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do that with Twitter ... something about composing in the short form (even when it's strings of related tweets) is really appealing, too. But when you want to say something longer, well, that's where LJ comes in.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I also find, as a content consumer, that LJ is better for things I have to think about, but tumblr is more calming and even meditative. I just scroll and let the cat pictures and nature photos soothe me.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

I still squat here and watch the tumbleweeds rollin'. I always thought of LJ as kind of a system of interconnected personal forums, which was really nice. It's too bad that people have moved on.

Tumblr is good for curating a collection of pictures, but fuckall terrible for having a coherent conversation, really.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

LJ was that plus a journal. I do enjoy the conversations, but as you may have noticed I'm much slower at responding to them.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

*clings to LJ with all her might.*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

SOLIDARITY!

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth still exists, but I'm not sure what the difference between it and LJ is. It has an identical feel. Bitching about broken things does eventually get human attention, but it takes a few weeks. So I'm a die hard LJ-er, although I also have a Facebook account. So very many people have migrated there. It's a pain in the ass set up but it has it's uses.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

DW is pretty much LJ, uses the same basic code and whatnot. The biggest selling point, for me, is that it retains customizability, where LJ is forcing changes that make itself more tumblr-esque, and taking away customization in a way that makes the site literally unreadable to a lot of people with visual problems and learning disabilities and such.

[friendoffrogs13.livejournal.com]

I still hop on to read most days. I've just gotten really lazy about posting. Between being tired, life being so much more day-to-day boring, and so few people reading, not as much seems worth the effort of posting.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, life is more day-to-day now for me, too, but I think I'm also somehow out of practice framing things as blog entries. I figure there are probably blog phases through life--just like with my journaling, some years I'm really into it and others not so much.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

I don't post on LJ any more, but I'm continuing to read my friendspage. At least until they discontinue the friendspage and force the feed view. I literally cannot read the feed view, at least the last version I saw. It just does not work with my dyslexia and whatnot.
Then I guess I'll have to visit individual journals and hope they don't take away the customization on those too... (which I think they plan to, eventually)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I thought they tried an infinite scroll friends page at one point and it didn't work. But I may be wrong.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

They did, but I hadn't checked back to see if they had nixed the idea or not. Last time I heard they didn't give a flip about what people liked or didn't.

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

It seems like a lot of the stuff about rabid (and sad) puppies I've read has been on Livejournal.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know there are a few authors who stick around on LJ (GRRM springs instantly to mind), yeah. There are pockets of activity, but it doesn't feel as all-encompassing anymore.