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splinteredwinterSo, hey there, Dreamwidth. I remember when you were born. You were new and shiny and a lot of my friends disappeared into you, but I ended up someplace else, although I kept a random account or two so I could read posts from people I cared about.
And now, hey-o, it's 10 years down the road and I'm back and, dude, I walk in the door and I'm having some major LJ flashbacks (which, duh, it's built on the LJ codebase). At least the interface will be easy to master, and HTML is like riding a bike. Rich Text is for quitters. We die like men, with an unclosed a href tag.
(Some quick housekeeping: I archived everything from my splinteredwinter and meta Tumblrs at splinteredwinter.net, and stopped blogging at Tumblr. I'm on Pillowfort as well, because right now it looks like those are the two choices fandom has - DW or PF.)
I'm ok with either, but I hope my fandom(s) show their predilections soon. Blogging on two platforms is hard.
Dreamwidth is good because I'm familiar with the interface, they've got a mature business model, they've got the server capacity for the fandoms, and yeah, they charge money for the premium accounts but that's the same thing that Pillowfort is going to be doing in six months or so anyway. They've got a ton of functionality and I find that the LJ-like setup makes me write more. I mean, look at this fucking essay I'm writing about blogging platforms. I never once wrote anything like on Tumblr. wtaf? I think if we ended up here my slowass writing would become incrementally faster.
Pillowfort, though. As a network engineer and someone with an MS in Cybersecurity, the fact that they shut down their entire site to do security remediation earned my respect. They did a risk assessment and ate the lost revenue and bad press and customer dissatisfaction to do the right thing, which is HARD. It takes major balls. On top of that they have a great idea. But then on top of that they have major server overload and it's going to be quite a while before they get it under control, so y'all best get used to the downtime because it isn't going away anytime soon. I got really frustrated today in the hour I spent blogging. It was really 40 minutes of blogging, but I spent a lot of time looking at the buffering symbol and the 500 error page.
So, yeah. I think I'll shut up now.
Splintered, OUT.
And now, hey-o, it's 10 years down the road and I'm back and, dude, I walk in the door and I'm having some major LJ flashbacks (which, duh, it's built on the LJ codebase). At least the interface will be easy to master, and HTML is like riding a bike. Rich Text is for quitters. We die like men, with an unclosed a href tag.
(Some quick housekeeping: I archived everything from my splinteredwinter and meta Tumblrs at splinteredwinter.net, and stopped blogging at Tumblr. I'm on Pillowfort as well, because right now it looks like those are the two choices fandom has - DW or PF.)
I'm ok with either, but I hope my fandom(s) show their predilections soon. Blogging on two platforms is hard.
Dreamwidth is good because I'm familiar with the interface, they've got a mature business model, they've got the server capacity for the fandoms, and yeah, they charge money for the premium accounts but that's the same thing that Pillowfort is going to be doing in six months or so anyway. They've got a ton of functionality and I find that the LJ-like setup makes me write more. I mean, look at this fucking essay I'm writing about blogging platforms. I never once wrote anything like on Tumblr. wtaf? I think if we ended up here my slowass writing would become incrementally faster.
Pillowfort, though. As a network engineer and someone with an MS in Cybersecurity, the fact that they shut down their entire site to do security remediation earned my respect. They did a risk assessment and ate the lost revenue and bad press and customer dissatisfaction to do the right thing, which is HARD. It takes major balls. On top of that they have a great idea. But then on top of that they have major server overload and it's going to be quite a while before they get it under control, so y'all best get used to the downtime because it isn't going away anytime soon. I got really frustrated today in the hour I spent blogging. It was really 40 minutes of blogging, but I spent a lot of time looking at the buffering symbol and the 500 error page.
So, yeah. I think I'll shut up now.
Splintered, OUT.
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Date: 2018-12-15 07:01 pm (UTC)So far dreamwidth is impressing me more in everything but interface -- that might just be some bad LJ memories, but PF has got a smoooooth GUI. Guess we'll find out who wins...
(Actually, I can foresee an artist/writer split, with artists at PF and writers here. Just a feeling, not in the prediction business, etc. etc.)