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cimoreneYet another thought that I only realized after the fact was too long for Twitter
The gap between Twitter, Tumblr, and DW is long stuff that doesn't seem all that important but which you nonetheless might want comments on and/or would like indexed and taggable.
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Dreamwidth's (or rather, LJ-style) calendar-based archive browsing, the ability to bundle and rename tags and to label memories, and the nested commenting and notification/tracking features on DW are too useful to me as a blog owner to just abandon.
And for fandom purposes, LJ-style comment pages, notification and tracking features, and the community concept are similarly indispensible, until we get another good non-instantaneous mailing list/messageboard substitue.
But the filtering functionality you can get on Tumblr with Xkit or even just Tumblr savior, not to mention the ease of posting and embedding media and the reblog+comment concept, are still irresistable - and that doesn't even touch on the ability to search and browse across the site by tags, which is a huge boon to fandom.
I want Xkit's dashboard features and Tumblr's tagging and reblogging features. I want a calendar-based archive page, and tag renaming and bundling for my personal blog. I want DW-style commenting, which you should be able to sign in to with Twitter or DW or LJ if you didn't have a Tumblr.
And I want fandom to get our lj communities back. Even though Tumblr has some functionality that is similar - post-submitting and group blogs - it doesn't seem capable of substituting for communities for fandom (fanfic) purposes without the commenting and security features of LJ-DW.
Plus it kind of seems like what fandom needs for our community substitute (the scion of the line of Zine, Messageboard, and Mailing List) is some kind of ao3 integration, because that's the logical central location for fanfiction now. But there's no way to sign up for fic-related announcements and conversations, like fests and challenges and ficfinder requests, via ao3. Those are of interest to readers and writers naturally, but a community consisting of just fest announcements is not going to get the kind of attention that communities got when they were also the central go-to for fanworks and recs. I have seen the signs of this need when reading Every Single Fic in the Tag as one does, with people making fic-finder requests and public statements in the author notes and public headers of their fic posts, and posting public addresses to their fandoms straight to the tags in question as meta "essays". (That is a possibility of course, but it seems clumsy, doesn't it - having conversations posted in the form of new "works"?)
(3:04) Posting on DW feels so weird and artificial when I'm used to Twitter and Tumblr.
(3:05) It feels like making an Event out of what seems like just more of the same disconnected babble that is always in my head.
(3:06) Like in order to qualify for a Blog Entry, it should be a position piece, or a reminiscence, not just 20x too long for Twitter.
(3:06) But I can't start posting these things on Tumblr, because Tumblr is like 98:2 noise: signal and the tagging system is shit.
(3:07) ... Not to mention the COMMENTING system, geez. I am not comfortable having personal interactions or conversations there. Awkward & weird.
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The gap between Twitter, Tumblr, and DW is long stuff that doesn't seem all that important but which you nonetheless might want comments on and/or would like indexed and taggable.
...
Dreamwidth's (or rather, LJ-style) calendar-based archive browsing, the ability to bundle and rename tags and to label memories, and the nested commenting and notification/tracking features on DW are too useful to me as a blog owner to just abandon.
And for fandom purposes, LJ-style comment pages, notification and tracking features, and the community concept are similarly indispensible, until we get another good non-instantaneous mailing list/messageboard substitue.
But the filtering functionality you can get on Tumblr with Xkit or even just Tumblr savior, not to mention the ease of posting and embedding media and the reblog+comment concept, are still irresistable - and that doesn't even touch on the ability to search and browse across the site by tags, which is a huge boon to fandom.
I want Xkit's dashboard features and Tumblr's tagging and reblogging features. I want a calendar-based archive page, and tag renaming and bundling for my personal blog. I want DW-style commenting, which you should be able to sign in to with Twitter or DW or LJ if you didn't have a Tumblr.
And I want fandom to get our lj communities back. Even though Tumblr has some functionality that is similar - post-submitting and group blogs - it doesn't seem capable of substituting for communities for fandom (fanfic) purposes without the commenting and security features of LJ-DW.
Plus it kind of seems like what fandom needs for our community substitute (the scion of the line of Zine, Messageboard, and Mailing List) is some kind of ao3 integration, because that's the logical central location for fanfiction now. But there's no way to sign up for fic-related announcements and conversations, like fests and challenges and ficfinder requests, via ao3. Those are of interest to readers and writers naturally, but a community consisting of just fest announcements is not going to get the kind of attention that communities got when they were also the central go-to for fanworks and recs. I have seen the signs of this need when reading Every Single Fic in the Tag as one does, with people making fic-finder requests and public statements in the author notes and public headers of their fic posts, and posting public addresses to their fandoms straight to the tags in question as meta "essays". (That is a possibility of course, but it seems clumsy, doesn't it - having conversations posted in the form of new "works"?)
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Date: 9 Mar 2014 05:59 pm (UTC)I have watched, increasingly puzzled, as people developed the idea that LJ/DW type posts had to be weighty, edited, and IMPORTANT. I never got that at all! I love it when people take the time to repost their tumblr posts here, because otherwise I don't see them.
And I post one or two sentence posts all the time on Dreamwidth.
(I never got into Twitter -- it's exactly what I don't like about the internet in a nutshell, so I can't comment on that.)
Anyway. I am glad you are finding tons of places to enjoy the internet, and I hope you repost your tumblr stuff here, or at least drop in now and again.
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Date: 10 Mar 2014 02:13 pm (UTC)I like Tumblr for its humor. The constant filtering drives me NUTS. I spend a lot of my time there having to block super toxic people who somehow manage to get into my dash, or porn and spam blogs who follow everyone, and it's incredibly annoying. I met an Animal Crossing fan on there who wanted to trade for some items, accidentally messaged me from her 'regular' blog, and turned out to be a teen White supremacist. No no no no no get out.