Re: LJ Archive giving problems, on the support comm on LJ, someone mentioned that they were having trouble with their journal's RSS/XML feed and figure something must be borked feedwise.
Given that DW allows comments to be imported from another journal, I wonder what that does to their comments feedwise and if it is an rss comment bork that's prevented me from saving my journal (with comments) there and thus updating my digital backup/digital memory/digital brain.
Of course no one involved with DW is reading my iJay, so I'll probably never know and it's unlikely to ever be solved even if it is a problem on their end, since right now it only affects a third party bit of software. It's still note worthy though.
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If you're on my flist and using LJ Archive and have encountered a sync error starting Aug 21st - you are not the only one. Support Ticket Open Here On LJ.
LJ-Archive Community Mention: Here.
I backed something up at Midnight and it was fine. Tried to back something up a few minutes ago - got the error. Will LJ fix a broken bit of code in their code push? Especially since it relates to a third party app? It's currently wait and see.
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A password protected diary (software) on my harddrive where there's no way for me to be prompted with the password might not be the best place to write down traumatic memories. What with how the brain works to block things dealing with the trauma, away from one's consciousness. Luckily I only had two entries that are now lost. And I remember the point of at least one entry so I can re-create my thoughts on it, though of course not recreate the entry itself.
I'm kind of surprised I didn't forsee this possibility.
I mean I have absolutely no memory at all of even bringing the password ability on the software up. I thought I hadn't password protected it yet. Oh Dissociative states, you whacky state of conciousness you.
And no, it's not actually stuff I feel comfortable writing out in an online danga clone, be it iJay or Dreamwidth. My last trauma diary was blogger with a url that only I knew, and my then therapist (Dr. MyTherapist). I need something like that again. But with the ability not to be ass out backwards when it comes to a password. Because you see it actually wouldn't be enough to just write the password down somewhere. Since I have no memory of using the password ability of the software, it's possible that the selves feeling uneasy even dealing with this stuff could quite handily erase or 'lose' that written down password and I'll be stuck again. These are selves that had me looking at TrueCrypt - ok? Paranoid, suspicious and private. That's their motto.
And this has now been open for an hour and change. Posting.
Random ETA: Came home to ants in the kitchen yesterday. Wiped things down and they were back when I woke up. Called the landlady's brother (she's apparently gone for a week) and someone from Terminex should be getting back to them, so they can get back to me.
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I'm going to delete ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) writers_whinge in 7 days. I've posted so in the comm so individuals may back up their entries there if they wish.
I've already deleted deconstruct_hp - I may wiffle on that though. I like Meta. And I liked discussing meta in HP. I just suck at running communities. Of course I say I liked discussing HP. I'm not sure if I still do. Anyway, the comm was backed up with LJ-Archive should anyone want the very, very (under 10) posts that were on it.
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DW doesn't have viewing filters and I just read something in my general going down my reading list that upset me all over again. So for right now I will only be checking my iJay reading list, where I can filter things. Because I don't actually want to drop people off my reading list (at least I don't think so at this time)
Look, it's more 'keeping myself safe' like a good little survivor. Though however would I have thought of this, without others to tell me what to do. /end sarcasm.
(Yep, still pissed).
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Didn't iJay just have a fund raising sale with permanent accounts? For a move? And now we're having another?
*nervous eyes*
Yeah , I am not feeling cocooned in a basket of security - eff damable stop.
Why do I post my journal publicly on line again? Oh yeah, the people (network/community).
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Annavtree of Livejournal - deleted and purged.
I know I've been in a bit of an introspective daze recently, but whoa. I feel completely out of the loop. And then some.
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I just deleted all my posts, except the ones made here from April and May and then re-imported my journal from LJ.
I may have mentioned the complication in doing that originally and then importing my iJay and ended up with doubles. The doubling kind of irked at me. But what really bothered me was LJ Archive not working to back everything up.
It kept timing out. I think the problem was all the comments.
But the point is, I need backups of my journal. It makes me feel so much better to have them. It's the story of my life, after all. So I decided that if people needed to read what went on in my life - they can check my iJay. It's got all proper filters, etc, etc, etc. If not, they can wait for me to - eventually unflock things here. I am in absolutely no rush - backing up my LJ is more about saving the comments on an actual journal site for some entries I want to continue being shared, without having to give LJ hits, blah blah, etc... with the conversations saved.
Unfortunately, LJ Archive is looking iffy backing up the comments despite everything. It seems to have managed 28, out of 9851. So it's wait and see time, and hope it really does back up...
Wait! I am GENIUS! I made a new archive and I'm now up to comment 173! So, tiny bit of hope! (uhm, why is it not showing the downloaded entries? - *sighs*)
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The more I see people ask questions about OpenID. The more I realize how many people didn't pay attention to the many explanations and diagrams and all sorts of bullet point entries I and many others put up two years ago.
The more I seriously want to give up on my reading list on LJ because I feel more and more like I went through the trouble of being able to communicate and read and keep up with them, but many of them never bothered with me. I'm recognizing who I haven't seen post to me in 2 years and realizing it's not that they were busy.
I happen to hve one friendship that dropped completely - the person then said they wanted to make things right again, and yet... I never hear from them.
I think when DW goes OpenBeta, I might just stop interacting at ALL on Livejournal except for one community. And I need to log into my old lj account for that.
Yeah, this is how DW will be changing my life. If you're not an orc, and you're not on DW, I just won't go through all this fuss anymore trying to stay current. Heck, I'm probably talking to the effing choir that does take the time to stay in contact with me through feeds and the people I'll be dropping probably can't even see this.
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Actually I don't think. I've been told by good friends that I am antisocial. But I haven't realized how much until getting a DW account. All of a sudden people I don't know are subscribing to me. And I can't block them the way I would on Twitter. And I'm wondering when the hell did I get so insular and twitching about unknowns reading.
I think 2 years on iJay with a very small readership has me in 'Small Town Mode'. And DW, at least for the moment is a 'Big City'.
*hugs flist here*
So not giving you guys up.
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Y'know, I had my beef with livejournal. I was angry and bitter and needed time to step back and heal. And I had arguments with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/openid-profile.gif) zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com because she was tired of hearing my anger about LJ and ended up saying something about it and we had it out.
But today I found myself with a whole lot to read about DW and how much people are afraid of it, don't like it because of who created it (and I have to admit to having a personal bias there cause Denise kicked on iJay and will forever have me giving her cut eye over that) and people also don't believe there will be 'The Great Fannish Migration' - so they're not even going to bother... blah blah blah.
Today was apparently 'Air Your Cynicism Day'.
Truthfully I do not believe in a Great Fannish Migration. Y'all are lazy asses. Those who aren't lazy asses moved back in 2007. That's my belief and you're not going to shake it from me. However, I do believe in good code and usability and I do believe in community.
( Cause this got a little extended. *adds cut tag* )
Yeah this got a little tl:dr. Some of you may not read it. It's not actually a great big 'Hurrah For DreamWidth'. But it is 'WTF people, you're not even giving them a CHANCE!'. I like to think the people reading this are intelligent enough to take the reminders contained therein that point out the differences between DreamWidth and Danga Interactive Clone Sites. I'd also like to think they're not spoiling from two years of bitterness over their social circles (fans or not fans) not moving when they moved and are upset that it takes something shinier than iJay to get people to lift their metaphorical lard asses.
DeeWee is shiny. Yes. But it's shiny in the way that LJ hasn't been in a couple of years. It's shiny on the back end.
Try it or don't try it. But really, you've got no ground to open your mouth if you haven't tried it / if you haven't read the updates / if you only have word of mouth.
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* If, and so far the things that DeeWee has promised, it has delivered on, there ends up being a way to read flocked posts via rss feeds on one's DeeWee reading list, it will make DeeWee accounts less likely to go inactive.
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PS: All y'all snarky ass bitches talking about the drama of fannish life and what will happen due to access or not access? You'd be finding something else to bitch about re: 'Teh Dramaz' and we all know it. People bring the drama, not just fans.
PPS: Having now had some confirmation that some folk haven't bothered following or reading me on iJay and it wasn't just they had nothing to say - thus lack of comments. I am cleaning house, both for my iJay and in who I'll grant access to on DW.
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Willow already has a DW account. It's Willow@Dreamwith.org. Thank you, all of you, who contacted me about getting an invite code. But I'm good. ETA:My bad for thinking it could wait to say I had one.
Also for the record, Dreamwidth's ability to port comments with entries, really interests me - I'd like to preserve the comments I got on livejournal. But that makes DW a place I will happily mirror to. If DW does figure out how to read flocked posts as subscriptions on one's reading list over there - then I might have myself a new online second home/summer home.
iJay's small, and not as popular and certainly not as embraced as DW seems to be. But that smallness has resulted in me getting to know a group of people I otherwise might not have - and getting to know you well. I'm not going to abandon that.
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ETA: Journaling Systems
Staring at my friends groups, Dreamwidth seems oddly inviting. I need to rename things. Cause Friends doesn't mean Friends. Friends sometimes means only 'People I Don't Mind Interacting Publicly With'. But it's so easy to forget that when posting and there's an easy word like friends right there.
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Ok...
Y'know the whole Dreamwidth drive? I've decided I'm gonna get excited about it. Because maybe there really will be an LJ exodus and the last things I'm involved with on LJ will move over there.
Cause WTF? I click the link 'Manage My Account' and some old bs shows up now, apparently to make it easier for me to access a tab on advertising? Obviously I've not been paying attention to LJ announcements so I don't know how new or old this arragement is. But I think maybe it was last month I last had to deal with the need to manage my account for something.
This stuff keeps being represented as 'Making things easier to find' and part of me feels the old fuddy duddy for going 'Oh hellz no I don't like this change'. But wtf? Cause it doesn't seem a rational change to me at all. Manage all accounts should be about managing all accounts, with access to everything needed, no matter the type of account. Once you switch over, whether it's Basic, Paid, Journal or Community, things should be similar.
Then I remember seeing DW's menu interface and OMG - logic!
So yeah, maybe there will be a serious migration and by serious I do not mean the fleeting dream that Dreamwidth opens proper (though can you pay for open beta?) and LJ finds itself losing members in droves...well, like the Hebrews leaving Egypt. (Would that make ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) synecdochic Moses?). Except I don't really think she needs to tell LJ to let her people go.
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Sometime near Feb 27th, I shall have Lady McBeth In Space and Alien Nation.
Sometime probably in March, I hope, I shall have TTT and FOTR - Extended edition. They were mailed on January 27th by a fan who lost her job. But it's parcel post - so really, it's real snail mail indeed.
And today I HAZ PURDY HATZ! By dragovianknight. I have to wash it, because it smells very very clean and I'm probably allergic to the detergent. But I did try it on. And it fits and will deal with my hair quite nicely. I can't believe someone made it! The knitting is so neat!
But it means I have the prettiest blue hat in the world. *spins with it* Thank you, thank you, thank you!
PS: Yes, I'm up again after going to sleep around noon. I'm no longer asking questions of my body. It needs what it needs. Also also - I know I'm blessed this year's March, with the ability to receive little things from friends (who are a blessing) and buy myself little things in this economy.
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Someone commented on my entry about feeling pain and confronting illness dealing with certain types of denial - to try and have an argument with me about salt. About the anecdote I started that post with. I've banned them. I'm dealing with too much, feeling too ill to be polite and ask questions and wait for answers. My userinfo used to say to drop me a line and let me know you're reading. I've changed it.
Ask first.
And right now I'm considering making comments friends only. It will likely fuck up with those who haven't figured out how to friend using their openid and those who I enjoy commenting back and forth with, but whom I don't want to have on my default flist or have to bother with filters for. But I seriously believe RaceFail 09 contributed to my recent round of ick. Stress is stress, even if one handles it well, or at least not badly.
But fuck damn buggering vikings - not even an 'I hope you feel better soon' before launching into an argument and demanding links as if they can't do the same kind of search I did WHILE I WAS ILL? Fuck that. I'm not up to dealing with anyone who makes me feel uncomfortable in my own damn journal. Just no. This is not my political staging ground. This is my online haven.
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I know you're on my flist, I've seen you.
Did you know there's a poll with information on cost of services and break downs of why, wherefore, etc?
If you're interested click. I'm not sure I am actually interested in Dreamwidth, certainly I'm not interested in enough to pay $200 for a permanent account. And I'm curious as to what Premium services might be and exactly how much extra is extra in them being simply very more of Paid services.
I need to read more to see about picking and choosing services as, for example, I never used voice posts or the picture hosting service and thus had rather a lot of empty/non used space.
ETA: My bad, I didn't see the eta there that this journal/person is not an official representative - just an excited fan.
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1. LJ laid off a large portion of its staff
2. Tech op, severs, legal, admin & customer service to stay in the US. Everything else -> Russia for 'global development'.
3. *hugs squeaky*
4. *gives the squinty eye to Inksome* Inksome is like my personal version of Journalfen sometimes, seriously
Oddly enough just last night I gave someone information on Blog2Blog, LJ-Sec and LJ-Archive, because they're a snarky little beast and there was the possibility of wank and maliciousness and OMGwon'tsomeonethinkofthechildren!
The other thing I'm thinking about is being told by a friend how irritating they found my OMGthanktheheavensforSqueaky posts as I grieved and let go of LJ and got angry and released it (makes it sound like musk glands, doesn't it) etc... I wonder if should things turn in 2009 so that they finally move off LJ (in their case most likely to Dreamwidth) if they might understand the process better. Of course that's me being 'nice'.
The real me is far more - What is it going to take to get people holding on at LJ to stop acting like Lifetime protagonists who refuse to leave an abuser until it's two seconds from too late.
And yeah, I'm not leaving comments on, because then I may say something even more spiteful that I could possibly regret.
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Unsubscribed from some dead communities and dropped a few people who hadn't added anything new to their journals since June of 2008. Also figured that those of you in SGA and SPN fandoms are worthy enough human beings that I can just scroll past all mention since Greasemonkey's LJ Filter doesn't work at all for me. And notifications kind of suck and end up with me going to your journals anyway.
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In the past few hours something happened to do with commenting. Someone commented to me a day or so ago on a post I wrote for the PoC SF Carnival. And in their comment there was phrasing that led me to believe they were someone who had been reading my blog and had found my private journal where I hosted the essay.
This led to me assuming they were familiar with some of the imbroglios going on online, in Fandom, particularly in Supernatural fandom. Which meant that when I went to their journal and saw a breezy post that seemed to be equating the actor Brandom Jay McLure to being a black Jensen Ackles / a black Dead Winchester, I got very shocked and upset. Their original comment to me had been regarding Kimanu True, an imprint for black youth that had a book I'd found traumatizing to say the least and very graphic.
So to see something that didn't make clear at all that they were doing an ongoing personal comparison of similar features across ethnicities and grouped together globally but instead seemed to be contributing to the fetishization in fandom of black men - yeah, I was not cool. When I realized my mistake in comprehension I apologised. Though I also backed away from the conversation because the other party was supposed to be focused on something for deadline. And while how they choose to spend their time is their choice - personally I feel uncomfortable being an irritant, even in just the sense of discussion towards comprehension, when someone has other things on their mind.
I'm writing about this here because I just got an emailed comment from a friend of the original commenter that was full of 'How dare you' and 'How could you do this to my friend' and 'You are so mean' and 'Other people might/would give you a second chance'. And I really wouldn't have given it the time of day - friends will want to defend and protect their friends. It's a facet of friendship and caring for other people. However once sentence as I scanned the comment and rolled my eyes caught my attention. And when I just went back to c/p it I found the whole paragraph interesting.
What is so ironic here is I'm supposed to be impressed by you and the weight you so easily swing around, so very sure of yourself. I'm not impressed at all ;[name redacted] has spent a great deal of time and energy devoting herself to racial equality and bridging the horrible gaps we humans make of things. You ran roughshod over her without even knowing just how much good she has done and how hard she has worked. It detracts from you, greatly, that you behaved this way. It makes you less of a force for change and good and more of someone a little too fond of hearing herself speak. I called someone out on a single comment they made and waited to see what they had to say about it. They replied with a host of other information that didn't exactly reply to my point. So I pointed it out again. And back and forth we went for a while. Now it seems important to this particular friend that as someone her friend is impressed by or respects that I somehow believe I deserve to cause an impression (positive) wherever I go and I'm now less worthy of such impression. Now if her friend who read my original essay feels less respect for me - that's perfectly understandable and something apt to happen if one forgets humans are human and put individuals on random height pedestals. Despite what I originally assumed she hasn't read enough about me to know my style when I'm discussing particular subjects vs just how I may phrase things in other communities or general posts here in my journal. What interests me right now is this assumption that as someone who is being respected I have some sort of obligation to be nice. And that by trying to get a pinned down response on the concept of the fetishization of black men in fandom - I ran ' roughshod' all over the original commenter and I should have taken into concept everything she's ever done on the subject of racial equality. Is this a concept of politeness that I just don't have? Because I never assume, unless I'm told (as I thought I had been told in this example) that anyone reading me has ever read anything else I've ever written on any subject - if they are a person I've never heard from before. I never assume that my prior goodworks can mean I won't screw up something in the present. And I don't think they should represent me if all someone sees is one/this current moment in time. How many times in life do we get to pull out a resume when we've messed up in order to say "But no really, if you look at my long history, you'll see how much I'm not like this..." And often I've found that individuals who get called out on racist, or offensive words / phrasings/ thoughts, often love to pull out their history of prior good works. It's like they pull out the cookie drawer and say "See, these other people gave me cookies. See I've done cookie worthy things in the past." The minute someone does something along those lines I immediately disregard anything they could have done. Because then those works don't stand on their own anymore to me. Instead those works become a) a foundation of excuses for current behavior b) a pile of works that were done purely for accolades not for the spirit of the work itself and the good it will produce in one person's life or in a general long run. If someone looks at my interaction in this case, for example and they feel I was too aggressive and I'm not someone they want to interact with it's a completely valid opinion and I may be disappointed if I ever learn about it - depending on who they are. But I can't say right now that I'll give it much thought in general or worry about it. I don't live my life trying to be an example of anything other than survival; for which I leave my journal open so people can see me struggle and accomplish and/or slide. So if someone would like to explain this concept of - I can't even call it automatic role modeling, because a role model to me has a sense that they're being watched and that they're inspiring others. They are aware of the eyes on them and their place in society. Me? What place in society do I have? So this concept of of niceness, that at least in this instance seems attached as a livejournal etiquette more and that I somehow owed the original commenter a resume review before interacting with them and that I also owed them a change in my own personality in order to be sweet and leaning towards understanding - where does this concept come from? Am I operating along mental lines other people can't follow? Is everyone else in life walking around with a resume they instantly hold up as a shield the moment someone takes what they say wrong? And is there also a belief even if 'you' (for general values of you) go and comment on a journal to a person you have never interacted with before or outside of a very specific context, and you invite and open conversation that somehow that individual should KNOW or UNDERSTAND that in your own journal you only have 3, 12, whatever readers and they're all personal, known face to face friends who know and understand you without a lot of words being written? Why is it assumed that a public entry should have the same context as a filtered or flocked entry that IS actually specific to a certain group? Why should I just surfing in be expected to read between the lines or with invisible context? Why should it matter to me that if I knew 'you' (again for general values of you) I wouldn't react the way I had. The point is I don't know them and only have their words, and their following comments (both on and off the topic) and in one instance still misunderstood, to judge them by. Honestly I suppose part of the reason I'm writing this out as a journal entry is because my initial and continued response right now is to tell the friend of the original commenter to grow up and stop expecting everyone in the world to be nice. That's not reality. PS: Does this thing also have something to do with the weird ass assumption that 'everyone wants to be liked and popular' and other shit?
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Who has problems with viewing images? I have my account set to image place holder for all images 640x840 but things smaller are almost always replaced with image holders. If I'm not logged in and go to my flist, I can see when someone posts pics of their little dragons or a gip, or a quiz, etc. But logged in - nada.
I don't want to open up a support request if someone on my flist knows what I'm doing wrong. Support's general response to things right now seems to be 'What browser are you using, and please use a different browser to test' - for everything.
I seriously doubt a different browser is my problem. I'm fairly certain it's iJay not reading my viewing request properly.
ETA: Has anyone also heard ANYTHING about why openid accounts who comment don't have their comments forwarded to email?
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Had it for breakfast first meal. Stayed up late into the morning to help fickle with her last college paper EVAH! And then spent all of today sleeping, until the postal person rang the doorbell. Yay doorbell! Now I just have to get some spare paint and cover the patch from where I moved it.
Anyway, postal person sucks. I got to the door and said 'Please hold on. I'll be right there' - cause I was busy putting on pants under my nightgown and trying to balance on my bad knee AND hold onto my cane. And the postal person just said 'Yeah, well it's right here' and went back to their car.
And on top of that she put the box down sideways even though it had a 'this end up' sign on it. Turns out it didn't need the 'this end up sign' and the items were very well packed. (Someone sent me jalepeno potato chips and they didn't break!) But this is the second time the postal package delivery person has just tossed something where-ever. I'm seriously thinking of asking all of you - if you want to send me a package, to wait and do it as a once a year thing and put out for UPS cause WTF is this shite?
I miss my old postal guy. The one from two, two and a half years back. I wish I'd had the money to tip him then. He was considerate, efficeint and just a plain damn pleasure.
Meanwhile, I'm apparently responding quite happily to fruit, yogurt and milk!
In more domestic news, I need to get back into a routine for brushing the cat cause this hair ball business is seriously messed up. It's hair logs right now and just eeewh. Not a thing to spur the day on, to wake and go 'oh sh*t, have to bedn over and clean crap'.
Tomorrow however! Semi-homemade Donuts! And perhaps some more kitchen unpacking. To which I say 'whee!'. And maybe sunday I'll make myself some curry.
ETA: Google is still fucking up Blogger and it's now been going on 40 hrs since my blog stopped working. I don't like WordPress at all, so I'm seriously considering just moving the damn thing to iJay. I don't think I want to wait around on Blogger to see what else might come up (other businesses etc). It's ridiculous to me that 48 hrs can past with people's blog's down, business and personal and no one has explained what's going on. There was one 'oh my, there seems to be a problem' 17 hours ago and nothing since. There hasn't even been a blanket form email sent out that some Blogger members might be experiencing xyz.
ETA2: Has anyone else switched from using yahoo mail as their primary address? Where did you go? Did you attempt to download what was saved in your account or did you just leave it?
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Guess who's a villain?
I did a post to promote IBARW on my blog. My blog's been gone/inaccessible for going on nearly 2 days now. And my frustration about that is eating into any energy I might have had to do something original for IBARW.
This sucks.
I don't want to transfer to WordPress, it does too much of what I don't want and don't give a damn about and not enough of being easy to give me precisely what will make me happy.
I'm seriously contemplating moving my blog to iJay. squeaky is responsibility, affability and just plain love.
I'm also thinking about buying a domain name for the blog, so no matter what, I can point the domain *somewhere* so I can leave a msg explaining if something goes wrong. Right now, no one knows why Seeking Avalon isn't showing up.
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I have an Intense/Intimate Filter. I think I already have those who'd want to be on it, on it. But just in case, please comment here.
I've never minded having some things public. But the casual attitude I have when I make sure that my mom's identity is pretty much protected isn't the same as the privacy I want to ensure when I talk about my father or issues relating to.
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About a month ago I began researching alternatives to blogger's in house comment system and I came across Disqus. I emailed them and asked if I was somehow missing the links to their TOS and Privacy Policy. One of the owner/creators emailed me back and said it would be 'coming soon' and gave me a link to their general FAQ.
Their easily found general FAQ which I'd already scoured.
But no worries, thought I. I'll wait a bit, this is bound to happen.
Tonight I emailed Daniel Ha again, because I haven't seen on the Disquss blog, any mentioned of a TOS or Privacy Policy. They are improving the service, and that's always mentioned. Each new feature gets a blog post. But there's no mention of a TOS or PP. Their competitors have TOS's and PP's.
I got an email back practically right away. I forgot it's barely 1:30am on the West Coast. Anyway his reply to my second query about a TOS or Privacy Policy and how lack of one had me searching for other products to use...
His response was: Good Luck
I am perhaps an unusual individual when I say that such a reply means I will now never use this service.
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Woke up to postpone moving van.
Still tired, so likely going back to sleep. The gingerale I put in the freezer is frozen solid. My aim was to make gingerale slushy. I'm looking at it all forelornly now. I want gingerale slushy but alas, it is not there. This summer I may need to consider ginger tea ice-cubes or something.
Some point to this ramble. iJay is my home.
I don't see anyone talking about LJ's newly stated policies over here. But maybe that's because, like with me, iJay is your home. I'd recently re-considered my comment posting. I'd been considering even giving up the two places I have been bothering to post using my account. Now I won't. But I'm not going to un-privatelock my journals at LJ either. And I will not be posting at LJ.
This is just me. Once you lose me. You lose me. And I seriously believe that if it wasn't for the case of 'The Things White People Do' - I wouldn't have had any any impetus to comment at LJ at all. (eta: clarification = with my lj journal account)
iJay's my home. I trust squeaky. Moreover I respect him.
I've also discovered functionality to have lj-like comments for Blogger.
It's nice and all that LJ went to rehab and got detox and therapy and is apparently trying to rebuild its life. But all the damn interventions wore me out.
I don't give a fuck.
Edited: Corrected title. How sleepy tired was I that I added an ex for no reason?
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There was a flurry of posts over on LJ in APRIL (I will look for more links later) all about whether or not iJay was viable for the long haul. squeaky actually went and replied to Synecdochic's entry, detailing his expertise, work and programming history and that he is indeed thinking ahead.
A few days later, Scribblit got transferred to Staff_Kit and then became Inksome.
I was a bit teed-off at the pokes to Insanejournal. It felt to me like people on LJ, who aren't here and aren't interacting daily and weekly with squeaky and had decided not to move, had no business spreading doubt about the service. I realize that's my personal opinion and that it was very much a reaction of "But you don't even live in my neighbourhood! Stop talking crap about it!".
But now I'm on the other side. The moment Inksome became Inksome, it felt to me more like a hobbysite than a current or future business. And I realize part of that is, once I got my early contributor account, things kept messing up over there, so I never uploaded icons and I stopped crossposting and haven't done much of anything with the account. I was waiting for things to settle. I haven't made a home there, and suddenly the community organizer / development planning company changed hands and I was left all 'WTF?'
The people who have put down roots in that neighbourhood no doubt feel comfortable there and don't have the questions I do about whether or not Inksome will be able to handle things in the long haul. They've developed relationships with each other and with the people who'll become the new staff.
I understand that.
And yet it does squat all for making me feel better about using the journal. All the changing hands reminds me of LJ. The fact that the original organizer/creator loss interest and enthusiasm, reminds me of Brad. And the possibility of another Greatestjournal - something invested in that then goes belly up a few years later, LOOMS like a fricking GIANT.
I know that GJ gave what it could while it could and that's not something to turn my nose up at. I made friends on GJ. I met people on GJ that either led me to people, or on their own have ended up becoming integral parts of my life. But Livejournal's FUCKWITTERY cost me a home. I had my LJ longer than I had and maintained my website. I had my lj longer and consistently than any other part of my online life since I came online in 1996. I know what a home online feels like. And now suddenly, LJ's asshattedness means that I need to have a city-home and country-home and a beach-home, so no matter what, there's a place for me to rest my head and breathe online.
So I understand my need to have a strong sense of stability before I commit content.
What I don't understand is what integral bit do I think is missing from Inksome that I don't feel comfortable making it one of my homes. Cause if I knew, I'd send email to the person in charge and suggest they do something so others who feel like I do would feel more welcome/soothed/SOMETHING.
But I don't know what's missing. I just feel like something is. And it's frustrating.
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Livejournal user/ SUPPORT TEAM MEMBER the_cynic is an asshole and someone who apparently has not yet learned that LJ has PR people f or a reason and only those people should interact with users.
The_lj_herald combs a bunch of communities a day to keep users up to date. They mentioned a KNOWN ISSUE. the_cynic takes offense and gets pissy about:
a) Them copying and pasting the answer
b) Them listing it as a "known" issue
c) Them apparently misinforming and causing more work for the Support Team because they take something that only "10" users had a problem with and label it as a KNOWN ISSUE when real known issues are listed in a box at the top of the general support page.
Here's one quote:
the_cycnic "Please to not be copying my Support replies and posting them here as if you know what the important issues of the day are. We frown on answer copying in Support, so why should you be able to do so in your little pseudo-informative news community?"
Yes ladies and gentlemen. He or she went. there.
I keep the Herald sending me announcements mainly to see what's happening with OpenID users. And I just found out that the code will be changed so that we're no longer anonymous. I already want to try it out.
But yeah, the_cynic [TRANSLATED VIA THE WILLOW LEXICON] ... "My failing brings all the boys to the yard and they're like wtf is that? Yes right, wtf is that? They'd ask me, but I might give a slap."
ETA: More gems!
the_cynic: "Or, if your friend really wanted to know what was up, they could have opened a Support request and asked."
Didn't s/he just say that too many open tickets = too much work??? The logic, it eats itself.
ETA: The herald has removed the c/p-ed answer (Did I mention the herald always links their source?). But as I am NOT the herald, I can c/p from my screencaped page. You bet your ass I capped it.
Here's the c/p of known issues the_cynic jumped the failwagon for: Some users may be unable to log in using LJ Mobile. "LiveJournal Support volunteers are aware of this issue and have escalated it to the appropriate Development resources. Since LiveJournal Mobile Client development is being handled through a third-party, it is unknown when and if this problem will be resolved." In the meantime, LiveJournal advises users to use the Mobile Site Scheme to be able to . (Source)
Oh LJ. Everytime I think I miss you, you act like an idiot and I find myself wanting to send squeaky some chocolate. (eta: apparently I missed linking - total space case this morning/now)
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The icon situation is settled. I've left the posts up as a record for myself. But have disallowed or privatised comments and removed links to the individual per their request. I don't want to lock them because they're a good look at not thinking about the other side, assumptions and confusion. Even if I won't put up the resolution conversations as they are private, I think someone else experiencing the same situation can get the gist of how I was thinking and what I did and what happened.
Which is also the point of this post. I'd never before considered that linking back could be seen as a Red Letter of Shame / Accusation. I'd always thought of it as citing the source. Which is perhaps impersonal when individuals, private journal space and feelings are involved. Or rather when private topics are involved; identity + icons are private.
I've also never before thought about how my open journal policy might appear to others; strangers who don't know me or don't have the chance to read my userinfo to see what this journal is to me.
I am glad, however, that I was able to stop and think about the other side of things. And I'm glad I went with my gut and wrote an apology. I'm glad I could walk the walk and that I remembered that despite one's intentions or ignorance when someone's feelings are hurt - that's the important thing. And lucky for me, the individual involved thought that about my feelings too. :)
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# Links removed by request
# Strike outs indicate assumptions that were wrong / misunderstandings
Apparently being open and honest about how one feels about something, even while admitting it's irrational and that one is confused about how one feels is somehow writing a diatribe.
The person who I posted about previously who'd used an icon of mine not knowing where she found it, evidently felt that my writing about the experience was me pointing my friends to her in some sort of complaint. She's since written about the experience [link removed ] here. In it she claims I should have friendslocked my post.
I am guessing she did not read my userinfo and how it states that I use this journal to discuss my emotions and my ups and downs in everyday life. Or maybe she's just not used to people being honest about their emotions without hiding them behind a flock. I'm not upset she's called me a bitch. Her point of view on the experience is hers and valid. And I've no doubt she was disappointed at not getting to use the icon.
I am somewhat puzzled at the mentality that would read my words and think it was all about her BEFORE she remade the icon and not about me, my emotions and my surprise AT my emotions. Not to mention her seeming belief that I had no clue that she could read the entry. Which is odd, considering I pointed her at my iJay in the first place. She also does a bit of Pot Meet Kettle, because I admit to rethinking my use of an icon where I couldn't find the creator and further admits to leaving the livejournal community where I saw the icon in order to get away from me.
INSERT: It's possible that not having any way of knowing that I'd posted about how I was feeling before I contacted her affected her pov on the situation. Still, it's odd to me that she didn't go to that post and comment, even anonymously if not with openID that she felt my post was unfair or inappropriate or whatever, thus allowing me to explain why I'd written it. I've considered writing to her to let her know that this wasn't about her and wasn't a diatribe and wasn't meant to hurt her feelings. It was about me and my feelings. But so far someone I trust has told me just writing out my feelings publicly was apparently enough for LJ drama and that writing to her would just be continuing it.
It's all very odd and confusing.
I am grateful to know that she hunted down the image the icon was taken from, on her own. It is not a touch up of mine. And I headdesk that I didn't think to offer her the source image since I think I do have it on this computer.
Have I said this is all odd? Cause it really is. Seriously odd.
Damn it, I'm going to post the letter and if it makes things worse - well can an apology make things worse?
I considered posting a copy of the letter here, but it should probably be private.
(edited from original version after thinking about things / then edited to remove links)
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upset
nervous
loved
hungry
pissed off
the opposite of nice
exhausted
confused