the next stage of moving house
27 Dec 2009 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWell, my paid lj account has finally expired! I'm a bit relieved to be rid of it, in fact. Since I opened commenting in both places, I've had very few on lj, which I didn't really expect. It's interesting - and nice! - to reflect that I am so firmly situated in the segment of fandom that has moved house. I've seen other people's posts via metafandom indicating that that isn't the case for them, and that would be distressing.
So I've successfully moved my picture hosting now to Google's Picasa. If you have a gmail or other google account, you can sign in there, and link them up easily; and you can tag, caption, re-order, embed, export links, etc etc, as well as sharing your albums to allow selected other people to modify them - this last is already a huge step up in functionality (and even if I weren't finding it useful I'd still find it awesome because eee! Living in the future!). The only downside to Picasa I have so far discovered is that I have to use the Picasa program to upload; it doesn't integrate with the desktop browser (in my case, since I'm using Gnome-Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, Nautilus).
Surprisingly enough, it seems the zillion images that are already in my lj picture folders haven't been deleted. I don't know if they just haven't gotten around to it or what. If they do all get deleted, I'm sorry to say I won't be fixing all the links in my shoe posts - it's just way, way too many to go back and manually re-code all of them.
What I hadn't considered was that not giving lj any more money would mean I see ads now. I believe it used to be the case that basic accounts didn't have to see ads when they were logged in, only plus accounts? But I can't find any way to turn them off. It's really annoying to have ads tacked onto the end (or beginning) of a story you're attempting to read - even more annoying than reading on LJ already was. Seriously, people putting your fic on LJ, move into the 21st century, for Bob's sake, and get a Dreamwidth and/or A03 invite! Everyone has more DW invites than they know what to do with, and the waiting list for AO3 codes is quite short. Just mosey over there and stick your email on it.
I've also reached a happy stage of only checking my lj flist - for a handful of journals, but mostly for the communities that haven't moved - every couple of days.
I'm never going to get rid of my lj account entirely because I will need it for commenting, if nothing else. But I can't wait until dw's read-your-lj-flist functionality rolls out.
So I've successfully moved my picture hosting now to Google's Picasa. If you have a gmail or other google account, you can sign in there, and link them up easily; and you can tag, caption, re-order, embed, export links, etc etc, as well as sharing your albums to allow selected other people to modify them - this last is already a huge step up in functionality (and even if I weren't finding it useful I'd still find it awesome because eee! Living in the future!). The only downside to Picasa I have so far discovered is that I have to use the Picasa program to upload; it doesn't integrate with the desktop browser (in my case, since I'm using Gnome-Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, Nautilus).
Surprisingly enough, it seems the zillion images that are already in my lj picture folders haven't been deleted. I don't know if they just haven't gotten around to it or what. If they do all get deleted, I'm sorry to say I won't be fixing all the links in my shoe posts - it's just way, way too many to go back and manually re-code all of them.
What I hadn't considered was that not giving lj any more money would mean I see ads now. I believe it used to be the case that basic accounts didn't have to see ads when they were logged in, only plus accounts? But I can't find any way to turn them off. It's really annoying to have ads tacked onto the end (or beginning) of a story you're attempting to read - even more annoying than reading on LJ already was. Seriously, people putting your fic on LJ, move into the 21st century, for Bob's sake, and get a Dreamwidth and/or A03 invite! Everyone has more DW invites than they know what to do with, and the waiting list for AO3 codes is quite short. Just mosey over there and stick your email on it.
I've also reached a happy stage of only checking my lj flist - for a handful of journals, but mostly for the communities that haven't moved - every couple of days.
I'm never going to get rid of my lj account entirely because I will need it for commenting, if nothing else. But I can't wait until dw's read-your-lj-flist functionality rolls out.
