Dreamwidth rambling

[frelling_tralk]

Er I hope this doesn't cause any offense, but today I actually unsubscribed from quite a few of the DW accounts that I first added when we were creating them as LJ back-ups. All of those accounts still have mutual access, but I decided that I want to start to try and keep up with my DW flist as well (or "reading list" I guess) now that so many people have left for DW, and at the moment I find that I'm mostly just reading the same entries again that I've already read on LJ, so I've unsubscribed to friends that I'm already in touch with on LJ

For the moment I won't be cross-posting and using my own DW, but I am going to try and keep up with my "subscriptions" over there (is it just me, or is DW awfully impersonal??), and read through it after I've read my flist

Comments

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

I don't mind DW, but at the same time it feels terribly foreign and yes, kinda impersonal. I reckon it is the new house feel to it. Everything is new and the walls and windows are bare, so it's like a cheap hotel room. Every time there's a new issue on LJ it seems like I make a new one (i can never remember my login info) and then forget about it.

If you're fandom-only, especially nearly-dead fandoms, it's hard to keep up the motivation to go there regularly.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

It seems like it's picked up in activity a lot lately, but yeah it's been dead there for so long that I never felt very motivated to pay much attention to it before. Now some of the bigger LJ comms have moved there though, so I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future, maybe it really will end up having a bigger user base than LJ

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

One big thing they could do, I think, is auto-importing LJ comments like mentioned above. They clearly have the ability, but maybe it would be too resource-heavy.