Leaving LJ

[amalthia]

Well this is going to be my last post to my personal LJ.

I'm not happy with customer support and basically my journal will probably be banned sometime in the future based on the new rules for LJ.

So without futher ado, here is where you can find me and my fic recs.

JournalFen: http://www.journalfen.net/users/amalthia/
GreatestJournal: http://amothea.greatestjournal.com/
InsaneJournal: http://amalthia.insanejournal.com/

I also set up a page at the Directorium

I do not plan to delete this journal but I will no longer be updating it.

I'm in the process of making mirror sites for the communities I created.

the angst archvie community journal can be found

http://www.journalfen.net/community/angst_archive/ or http://angst-archive.greatestjournal.com/

I plan to cross-post to both communities until I'm able to get some sort of vote on where the members prefer to stay.

I think that's everything.

Comments

[amalthia]

Well I think it's going to take some time for the communities to get shifted over. but it looks like most of the writers of adult content are starting to cross post and are setting up communities. I think it's just going to take some time. And most Gen writeres don't really have to worry the same way about having their journals deleted so they can afford to take their time on moving. (assuming that's what they want to do.)

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

perhaps you can start an RSS feed here for your JF journal? it looks like RSS feeds will be the way to cross-link the various journals.

[amalthia]

I think you have to have a paid journal account to create rss feeds. I'm going to try and do more research on this because I agree rss feeds seem to be the way to go.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

nods. you do have to have a paid account. if you need one on LJ, drop me a note in a few days and I'll create one here for you. I don;t have paid accounts on any of the other 3-4 services so others will have to do those for you.

note: rss feeds will not show friends only posts (unless you use a feed software that will support this.) the generic feeds we create here on LJ and elsewhere do not.

the other option is to move your main journal to xxx and then use software to cross-post to multiple places including LJ. that way, if when LJ deletes your account here, no problem.

[amalthia]

at the moment I'm crossposting to 3 journals, none of which are LJ. I just don't want to use LJ anymore. :( So basically an rss feed from LJ wouldn't work.

I was thinking I need to get an rss feed for my JF or IJ account and share that rss feed at LJ. Because those are the two accounts I can see myself staying long term at. I'm probably shooting myself in the foot by leaving LJ because that's where all the vidding communities are and I highly doubt many people are really leaving. Especially, now that they've reinstated Elaboration's lj.

But basically, i'm tired of the LJ team making rash decisions and not thinking things through before deleting journals and well they've already fooled fandom once, and this is the second time, I wouldn't be shocked if 4 months down the road they do something else...I just don't want to be there for the third screwup.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

nods.ok, remind me in a few days and I'll set up a RSS feed for your journal of choice for people who are on LJ. just pick one.

[amalthia]

okay I feel like a dumbass, is it possible for you to create rss feeds here at LJ for sites off LJ??? Because if so, if you can make one for my IJ site at http://amalthia.insanejournal.com/ that would be great. Um no rush, I could be wrong on this. I really don't quite get rss feeds and how they work with LJ.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

ok will do.

the way feeds work - if you're a paid user at x site - you can set up a rss feed for someone else's journal at any other site. friendslocked entries will not be shown and the feed shows only the last 25 entries.

since you'r'e planning on leeping LJ to read your lj friends (and their locked posts), you won't need feeds for the LJ friends. but if your friends are going somewhere else - JF or GF, you can set up your own feeds on IJ.