Okay, so I moved a long time ago - both back in 2009 when I first transported everything over, and again around 2011 when I realised you could crosspost from DW. There are probably quite a few entries that I'll lose between 2009 and 2011: the Merlin and Sanctuary years, I suspect.
Regarding my fic: I have every fic I've ever formally written on my HD. Yes, I have the very first fic I wrote waaaaaay back in 2001. And all the ones since then. (130 in Stargate-Completed, 56 in Oldfanfic-Completed, 785 in fanfic-Completed.) I just haven't put them all up on AO3 and ff.net.
I'm a little hesitant to put them up on AO3 to be honest. There've been noises about how The Servers Are Not Robust, and issues with posting and posting a peak times and, oh, all kinds of stuff.
What I don't have are: a) comment fics that I didn't save (some I did, there was no logic to the saving), b) the comments on my fics that people left and which just fill me with ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥! Mostly particularly the pre-AO3 stuff, when people mostly commented on LJ and I commented back and I made friends with the people who I started discussions with, or who started discussions with me...
Anyway, looking at the list of translated comms put up by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
squidgiepdx (LJ and DW equivalents), it's pretty clear just how quiet DW is. Most comms haven't been updated in several years, and almost none of them are active. And I get that I'm not in the segments of fandom that are busy and have the movers-and-shakers of fandom (ie. male-centric, slash pairings) but...it's really very quiet.
While I really do love having a community (or an audience), part of the reason I journal is because I use this as a thought-dumping ground: somewhere to put my thoughts that is largely my own and over which I have a certain amount of creative control. Obviously the co-opting of LJ by the Russian company means I lose that creative control and have to censor my thoughts which I'm unwilling to do. It's also a way of keeping up with people that's less public and out-there than FB, harder to co-opt the way Tumblr does (have you ever put up an opinion on Tumblr and then promptly found it hijacked by the antis? I have at least twice, most memorably by racist Chaleigh shippers, and by pro-gun nuts), and easier to track than Twitter.
And I am enjoying that more people are coming out of the DW woodwork and posting. I've subscribed to people I wasn't subscribed to before, and I might unsubscribe from people who weren't posting at DW but who I subscribed to when we had things in common and now no longer do.
Life goes on.
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Curious question: who uses the 'new' DW code for HTML tags? Because I've been using the 'old' LJ code and...it still posts all okay so far as I can tell...
Regarding my fic: I have every fic I've ever formally written on my HD. Yes, I have the very first fic I wrote waaaaaay back in 2001. And all the ones since then. (130 in Stargate-Completed, 56 in Oldfanfic-Completed, 785 in fanfic-Completed.) I just haven't put them all up on AO3 and ff.net.
I'm a little hesitant to put them up on AO3 to be honest. There've been noises about how The Servers Are Not Robust, and issues with posting and posting a peak times and, oh, all kinds of stuff.
What I don't have are: a) comment fics that I didn't save (some I did, there was no logic to the saving), b) the comments on my fics that people left and which just fill me with ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥! Mostly particularly the pre-AO3 stuff, when people mostly commented on LJ and I commented back and I made friends with the people who I started discussions with, or who started discussions with me...
Anyway, looking at the list of translated comms put up by
squidgiepdx (LJ and DW equivalents), it's pretty clear just how quiet DW is. Most comms haven't been updated in several years, and almost none of them are active. And I get that I'm not in the segments of fandom that are busy and have the movers-and-shakers of fandom (ie. male-centric, slash pairings) but...it's really very quiet.While I really do love having a community (or an audience), part of the reason I journal is because I use this as a thought-dumping ground: somewhere to put my thoughts that is largely my own and over which I have a certain amount of creative control. Obviously the co-opting of LJ by the Russian company means I lose that creative control and have to censor my thoughts which I'm unwilling to do. It's also a way of keeping up with people that's less public and out-there than FB, harder to co-opt the way Tumblr does (have you ever put up an opinion on Tumblr and then promptly found it hijacked by the antis? I have at least twice, most memorably by racist Chaleigh shippers, and by pro-gun nuts), and easier to track than Twitter.
And I am enjoying that more people are coming out of the DW woodwork and posting. I've subscribed to people I wasn't subscribed to before, and I might unsubscribe from people who weren't posting at DW but who I subscribed to when we had things in common and now no longer do.
Life goes on.
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Curious question: who uses the 'new' DW code for HTML tags? Because I've been using the 'old' LJ code and...it still posts all okay so far as I can tell...
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I wish AO3 was more robust. Not only for housing all the fic, but to really become an archive for other material as well (*cough*vids*cough)
My level of involvement with fandom in general has dwindled a lot this past year or so. I feel kind of out of touch. Like you I'm not in any current megafandoms and also the use of mobile devices cuts down on my interaction - I scroll, don't comment. I honestly think the mobile thing has more to do with it than anything else. I have passing knowledge of things people are fannish about and could still engage - like MCU, for example - but often don't bother when I'm on a mobile device.
I'm beginning to see the appeal of FB's "LIKE" button, where a few years ago I'd have said I loathed it.
Ugh.... tumblr.
P.S. 130 Stargate fics. That's AWESOME :)
P.S.S. Can you tell I'm at an actual computer and not a tablet/phone, with commenting and words and whatnot?