[ SECRET POST #6558 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6558 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Nah, it was the pictures. LJ was always down due to DDOS, so we all moved to DW but DW was an imperfect copy of LJ. It didn’t include features LJ users depended on but it did have pretty much the same basic themes, they were just coded differently so it was difficult or even impossible to use most of the hundreds of thousands of LJ themes out there. But the worst part was that DW didn’t have any photo hosting. This happened right about the time that Photobucket became an absolute nightmare to use and you had to have an account and they set a really small allowance. So everyone moved to tumblr where they had native image support and the blog themes were fresh and new.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it was both, personally. I remember a lot of my friends being bummed that no one was talking about fandom anymore and people on tumblr were.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like people who didn’t make the jump to DW. Or maybe their fandoms were dwindling so the fandom didn’t find traction on DW, which is what happened to one of my fandoms at that time. It didn’t revive with the migration to tumblr, either. That was about a year after the LJ exodus.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, as a fandom translator who kind of depends on being able to upload and embed images, DW just really doesn't work for that.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this. Right when LJ was becoming less reliable, I also was struggling with migrating thousands of images to a Photobucket alternative, which didn't really exist. Nowadays I use Imgur pretty heavily, but it wasn't big back then. Back then, the other alternatives people had when Photobucket exploded were, like, Mediafire. 😬 LJ had a HUGE icon-making community, and even now, I think one of the very few things LJ and DW offer over other basically every other socmed site is the ability to have multiple userpics. But the icon-making community collapsed on LJ because of Photobucket's issues and icon makers suddenly finding all their icons watermarked because they had gone over Photobucket's miniscule bandwidth cap.

Dreamwidth was slow to roll out image hosting and it still *sucks* for icon hosting. For one thing, it is a huge pain just to get the URL of the original size image you uploaded, when it should be the main thing the site provides and available with a right click at worst (it is not, because DW displays a different-size image on the "view all your imags" page). And there are no albums, which is absolutely necessary when you're uploading hundreds of images rather than dozens. The image upload is geared toward uploading large photos and not uploading icons that are already tiny-sized and don't need to be resized. It is shit.

[(Anonymous)]

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Also, a bit of a sidenote but I recently had a friend on Tumblr lament the icon-making days on LiveJournal and I had to bite my tongue and not be like, "But you can still do that on Dreamwidth??" because I'm sure they already know about Dreamwidth but just have no interest in joining.

Despite my grumblings above, there IS an actual icon-making community on both DW and even LJ still (much smaller than it was at LJ's peak, but still enough to support quite a lot of challenge and rec/sharing communities). But yeah, I think a lot of people no longer have friends on Dreamwidth, while they still have people they talk to on Tumblr, so it's hard to make someone who is happy on Tumblr switch to Dreamwidth, even if they remember being active on LJ and miss that fandom experience.

[(Anonymous)]

>there IS an actual icon-making community on both DW and even LJ still (much smaller than it was at LJ's peak, but still enough to support quite a lot of challenge and rec/sharing communities)

[DA] I've always been willing to come back to LJ solely for the small pockets that are still active, but I've never known which ones.

>But yeah, I think a lot of people no longer have friends on Dreamwidth, while they still have people they talk to on Tumblr, so it's hard to make someone who is happy on Tumblr switch to Dreamwidth, even if they remember being active on LJ and miss that fandom experience.

Yep. I hate Tumblr but my friends are there. Hardly anyone I know is on DW. I tried to bring a friend over here, but they abandoned their journal after a few months and blogging alone makes me feel like a nutcase talking to myself. At least when I post stuff on Tumblr I have a few mutuals interact with it.