holiday; fic; comments; where i am; pretty pretty

[kellifer]

-> Firstly, happy holidays to everyone. This will probably be my last post before the weekend so just wishing everyone safety, joy and full bellies.

-> I posted two fics in one day. Fear my productivity!

-> I think my comment pages look the same... but let me know if they don't? I'm not really sure how to check what other people see but I'll do the custom thing if it's an eyesore.

-> Lots of people are angry and talking of migrating. I always get the fear sweats when people talk of abandoning LJ for good because it took a LONG DAMN TIME to feel comfortable and build myself a little nest and I HATE MOVING. You lose things and there are boxes and you have to figure out when bin night is and then you realise you've gotten stuck next to the neighbours who play thrash metal at 4 in the morning. That being said, I actually have a DW account which I never use but will probably have to start. If someone could point me in the direction of easy instructions on cross-posting it would be appreciated. I do have an AO3 and I'll be slowly archiving stuff over there and also posting anything new. I'm thinking more and more people are actually just reading there given the way the responses have swung which is totes fine.

Lastly, have something prettier to look at than the current default comments page.

Comments

[ruby-jelly.livejournal.com]

And who is that pretty?

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Chris Evans as Captain Americaaaaa... I just want to cuddle his pecs.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

Ugggggh I feel you, bb, 100%. :(

That being said, STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

He is definitely nicely distracting. :)

*clings to you*

I know we've avoided a mass exodus thus far because people in general hate change but it's probably getting closer... :(

[tabaqui]

Your comment page is still 'custom' - if you have an S2 style page, it hasn't changed yet.

I don't want to move, either! I'll lose touch with people, i'll lose comms....it will suck!

I'm hoping for an easy work-around that people will use so we don't have to move.
*clings to you*
*clings to lj*

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Cool - I didn't want to have it be horrible and unusable and not realise it!

*clings*

I've been seeing some workarounds popping up here and there so if it is an issue I'll look at those. I know people roll their eyes when there are complaints about Facebook changing stuff because it's a free service but LJ has paying customers... I just don't understand switching out useful stuff when you have very vocal negative feedback leading up to it.

I just hate the thought of migrating completely because you always lose people.

[tabaqui]

This! It's insane and ridiculous. If this were a free service, i'd grin and bear it, but it's *not*, i pay to have an lj and i'd like the people i pay to *listen* to me.

I've seen two workarounds - not sure how easy they are to implement.

http://spnanonhaven.livejournal.com/18819.html?thread=90455427#t90455427

And - this is on a kink-meme, so nsfw.

http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/7083.html?thread=10810795#t10810795

Yeah, i don't wanna lose my lj/fandom community, but they are making it *so* hard....

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I know the mass exodus hasn't happened like it keeps threatening to do but I'm sure we're going to reach the tipping point at some stage. :(

[tabaqui]

I know!
And i'm pretty sure a lot of my comms don't have a page over there....
It's all so frustrating!
*clings*

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Too true!

Let's just hug it out until it all passes.

[tabaqui]

I'm down with that!!
*hug hug hug*

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Aside from using a client (like Semagic? I think that one works), the easiest way to crosspost is to post from Dreamwidth -- they have a built in crossposting tool that allows you to make one post to multiple accounts, you just have to set them up (which I believe is as easy as inputting your username and password, but I haven't set one up in a while. I can find the info for you though if you're interested :D).

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look around - I'm sure I can figure it out if that's the case - thanks hon! :D

[goodbyebird]

You can do this on the My Account Settings page under the tab "Other Sites", with the option of automatically crossposting all entries or choosing which entries to crosspost, plus you can also select a crossposting footer or customize it yourself.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon!

[theladyscribe]

I'm both theladyscribe and theroadislife on DW, but theroadislife is the account I actually use (fannish stuff is locked, bc I've linked to it on my FB before).

If you come over, you can hang out with me! :)

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

OMG - Dreamwidth is on the denied list inside business hours for my work... LJ is not... argh!

I'll linky once we hit lunch time... heh.

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

I don't see much change in the comments format...I too have DW and AO3 which I don't use that much and I hope LJ get their act in order...

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely!

I've seen the comment form on other journals and it's fugly because it's really basic - it's like they've gone backwards in design.

[sirona-gs.livejournal.com]

I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF THAT GIF. JUST SAYING. *________*

It occurs to me that once the film is out we are going to be BURIED IN THEM. \0/

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I WILL NOT BE COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT AT ALL!!

I'm waiting to get absolutely JOSSED by the movie though - I think my stories are a weird mix of fanon and comic stuff... hahahaa!

[khek.livejournal.com]

I don't want to move eeeitherrrrrr!

Why do they "fix" things that aren't broken? It makes no sense.

[beatrice_otter]

The great thing about Dreamwidth is that you don't have to switch completely. DW will import your LJ journal, including comments, if you tell it to. If you post from DW, you can set it to automatically crosspost for you. There are a lot of personal journals that are on both sites and crossposted, and for those I generally watch them on my DW read page (which is a Friends page except that wanting to read someone's entries doesn't automatically give them access to your locked entries). There are also coms that are on DW but not on LJ. For those, obviously, I read them on my DW read page. But there are a lot of people and coms who are still on LJ, so I keep up with my flist for them.

[jebbypal]

huh, i must of missed something. The comments page doesn't look that differnt to me. But I like the eye candy :)

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

It took till today for it to change over for me so I had to go back in and change my settings.

Eye candy goooooood. :D