G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

Starting playing with LJ options last night and ended up going off the deep end.   I hate it when this happens.   I got it to a point last night where I could stand it, but it may not stay like this.   And it might be wonky.   I'm playing with the concept of a format that does a better job showcasing photos.   We'll see where it ends up.  I just don't want to go too far down the CSS rat hole because I find it takes forever.

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One of the allures of Tumblr I think is that you appear to get a lot more response to posts.   Tumblr enables a quick "like" and reblog function which can get your posts spreading around a lot via people you don't know.  As I've been playing more in Tumblr and thinking about the LJ vs. Tumblr comparison, I've begun to think that for those of us who are not fandom's writers, but it's visual artists, Tumblr may offer a bit more feedback satisfaction.   And then there's the fact that for whatever reasons, Tumblr is so much more active for SPN than LJ seems to be these days.   Even if the activity might be a bit OTT or youngish or whatever or Cas vs. Sam focused - at least people are reacting and talking - as opposed to the silence that seems to have descended over LJ.   

Don't get me wrong, I still see LJ as my fandom homebase.   My real community.   I'm just venturing out further and exploring and bringing back.  :)

Tumblr is not the place for in depth conversations or getting to know-you's.    I am seeing that relationships form there and perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to the different behavior of Tumblr, but it still does seem to me to as good as LJ for forming a more "connected" community.

But there is something to be said for finding two of my photos on Tumblr with more likes/reblogs than I've ever seen on LJ.

I'm thinking doing a flist review and possibly some cuts.   A case of my LJ use evolving into a lot more personal posting.  If I cut it will be folks that I've friended back in the day when I friended everyone just 'cuz.   This is not about cutting folks I talk with via LJ.   I'll be looking over the next x days.  If I cut inappropriately, let me know.

( under the cut... )


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Anyone else having problems uploading images to Livejournal scrapbook?  I keep getting an error saying I'm not logged in.  Which of course I AM logged in.

I don't know if you all noticed this, but for a couple of hours last night, embedding of videos did not work on LJ. 

It turns out that LJ turned it off due to some kind of script that was modifying people's LJ entries.

You can find out more here.

After reading about I realized that my LJ was hit.  My 2020 sticky post had those weird boxes at the end of the post added and the tags, location, and mood were removed.  Luckily it was already a public post.  But I'm now concerned about what LJ said about profile email addresses being nabbed.

Honestly, last night I really thought it was just me.  I was having a weird evening and thought I must have had an extreme brain fart and accidently updated my sticky post! 

 

I can't believe I did this--but yes, I asked kerrikins for a Dreamwidth invite when she said she had some available.

So I'm also GrowYourWings on DW. I *think* this will be cross posted. It's posted directly on DW.

And I've no plans to live LJ. I'm just playing. And depending on how hard/complicated this is--it will be a backup journal.

Is it just me? I find it so hard to read light-colored text on light background. But the layout and artwork is cool.

My LJ layout broke several weeks ago and I haven't had the mental (and emotional!) energy to try to fix it after spending a couple hours one day trying to no success. So I left it broken--but it's been driving me NUTS looking at it. This morning I finally said to heck with it and switched back to a standard LJ layout until I can re-apply a custom-built one.

All, I have an LJ layout problem that I'm trying to fix and don't have time right now to resolve the issue immediately. So expect to see funky layout for a short time (hours? day? days? IDEK)