Do we need a secondary venue?

[feliciakw]

With the wonkiness of LJ in the past week, a lot of us have been really frustrated with not being able to post, to communicate with one another, to contact peeps we only contact through LJ.

It seems a viable alternative might be prudent.

I know several of my LJ peeps really have no interest in Dreamwidth. I've also seen it indicated that DW users don't want DW to be inundated by LJ users.

It occurs to me that there is another alternative.

Long before I was talked into joining LJ, I was active on a number of Yahoo Groups. For those unfamiliar with YahooGroups, they act in a very similar manner to an LJ comm. I'm not sure about posting vids, and photos are posted in a photo folder available to the group.

Groups can be open or moderated, membership required or not. I spent many, MANY hours on my YahooGroups list. Too many. It's simple, convenient, and serves most of the purposes we use LJ for.

If anyone is interested, let me know. Perhaps a couple of us could start a group and co-mod or something.

Comments

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that people's lack of interest in Dreamwidth is because there's literally nothing over there. I searched for SPN comms and found only 2 or 3 (and 1 was a slash comm). But if people went over there and built things up, it could be a nice place to hang out.

The elitist DW users who don't want us unwashed LJ-ers over there can seriously go scratch.

I was a member of several Yahoo groups about 6-7 years ago. I find it VERY annoying to use. Cluttered and difficult to keep up with. From my POV Dreamwidth is a much better option.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I'm not interested in Dreamwidth, and I think we/fandom/etc have mostly moved on from Yahoo Groups (my writer's group still uses it to communicate, but some of the members are lobbying for a move to Google +).

But as I am not quite as fandom-active (or LJ-active, really) at the moment, my opinion may not be very useful to you. Mostly, I just balk at the idea of adding YET ANOTHER social media type site to my already overloaded internet brain. I can barely remember to back up my LJ, much less copy it over somewhere every time I post, or multi-post things. And I tend to always wonder who I'm going to leave behind when/if I move to new social media....

(I need to make a post about this, perhaps.)

[leelust.livejournal.com]

I'm ok with that thought. I'm already a member of several Yahoo groups and thinking about joining another one so if you decide to create another one for your flist i'm in.

[kerravonsen]

I'm on DW and I crosspost everything, and I would much prefer to not have to join something else as well.
I really don't think you should rule out DW as an option.