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how y'all holding up? I can't post or commment at all for the past 4 days, I can load the page some days but now I can't load any page at all.

So for y'all make it here on DW, let's do a science thread

- Do you have a DW account?
- is it your backup or primary one?
- Do you have other backups?
- Ship, character affiliation

1 yes
2 backup
3 I have a tumblr, but I rarely use it, and no to twitter. :/
4 Cas!person, multishipper.

yes
primary
I namesquat places but don't really use them
Wincester

I have fandom obligation due this week, this is really pissing me off.

- no, I can't handle that many accounts, I already have a sock.
- na
- nope, again, can't handle them
- bibro Wincester

- no
- -
- no
- S/D S&D

I'm getting way too much insight into exactly how much time I usually spend on LJ in general and meme in particular. My life should not be this affected by LJ going down.

1. Yes
2. Backup. I post fic and substantial meta posts there, but I don't bother with casual posts and real life stuff.
3. My fic is also at AO3.
4. Sam-leaning bibro, wincest, side of Sassy.

Monday and Tuesday I could view but not post, but now, nothing. I honestly don't believe their claims of DDoS this time either. I think they screwed something up in an epic way and don't want to admit it.

-No
-N/A
-No
-Sam!girl, none

1. Yes.
2. Backup.
3. AO3.
4. Wincest, Dean-leaning bi-bro.

Yes.
Primary. I crosspost to LJ from DW.
Of my actual journal, no. But my fanfic is archived a few other other places.
Multishipper, Sam leaning TFW.

-Yes
-Backup
-I had an insanejournal a long while back, but I haven't used it it years. It wouldn't be my backup if lj went down now, though I might post a link to my DW account.
-Bibro Wincester

It had only been down for me Monday morning, but now? Doesn't even load. Rien de rien.

1. Yes, I have a DW account.
2. It is my primary account, I crosspost from here to LJ. (Crossposting is ♥, y'all, I honestly think more people would use DW if they knew how easy it is to crosspost.)
3. I have stuff scattered in old fandom archives, but nowhere is everything in one place outside of LJ/DW. (I signed up for AO3 today though.)
4. J2, Dean-leaning bi-bro.

-Yes.
-Backup, I guess. I created it during the last LJ DDoS attacks, but I never set up crossposting and mostly forget it's even there.
-I have some of my fic at AO3, which I like better than DW.
-Sam!girl, multishipper.

I guess I still don't really get the purpose of DW, unless LJ never comes back. All my friends are on LJ, even the people who use DW still crosspost to LJ. If LJ dies forever, okay, DW would be a good alternate, but as a backup for fic, I think the setup at AO3 is tops. Like 99% of the time, DW feels redundant to me.

DW has expandable cut tags and employees and volunteers who actually respond to questions and concerns. Those are two of the things I like about it today. If it weren't for meme, I would spend no time on LJ at all.

ayrt. That's cool for you, but for those of who actually like posting and reading fic and participating in active communities, LJ is approximately five trillion times better. All the functionality in the world doesn't help when the place is practically dead, and what does show up here is mirrored onto LJ anyway.

da

Basically, LJ fucked us over in the past. And despite things seeming to be better now, it's one of those "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..." things. DW is friendlier. When a censorship group reported that DW allows for potentially pornographic content to their payment processor (PayPal), they refused to delete said content, switched to somewhere that didn't require them to censor said content, and, in the meanwhile, took the financial loss.

I don't know much about the technical side of things, but they're actually developing the code (expandable cut-tags) and make available useful options (style=mine is a handy button for everyone, not only paid users). I prefer the circles/gives access to a million times over "friends" too. The people working on it are approachable and helpful and keep us informed.

I'm not trying to convince anyone to move (I kinda gave up on that, honestly) and I won't stop crossposting myself because the level of activity and interaction here is really low and I like comments on my fic just as much as anyone. But yeah, there are good reasons to like DW and if DDoS attacks on LJ are going to become a regular thing, that's one more.

ayrt. All that sounds really cool, but I'll be honest - it's not enough to make me pull up roots at LJ and move to DW. I'm here for the community factor, and the community is on LJ. If there got to be a critical mass of people at DW, I would definitely at least crosspost.

TBH I feel like DW is kind of being left in the dust by other platforms. I've seen a few people on my twitter feed join tumblr in the past few days so they can amuse themselves while LJ is down, but I haven't seen anyone say "I'm so bored, I'll join DW!" I even offered some DW codes and no one took me up on them.

ayrt

I totally get it, honest. I've tried to move twice already, IJ and DW, and the community just doesn't follow - and it's just not fun to be talking all alone. I've had better success on DW compared to IJ and I can interact with the few people I talk fannish stuff with here, but if I want to read fic or meta, if I want to comment, if I want people to comment on my stuff, it's still LJ.

The kind of fannish stuff I'm interest in doesn't seem to be available on other platforms, but I pretty much agree that it would take LJ collapsing for people to move.

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I'd love to be active in DW, but it seems that there's nothing going on here at all. I went to look for a community to post some shit of mine, it was like there was all of one, and it hadn't been posted in for months. Where are people hiding in here? Are there active communities at all? And... WTF is an expandable cut tag after all? At this point, I'm just using DW to store my shit in case LJ dies.

DA

I've been thinking about copying my stuff over, too, if LJ ever gets better. But then I'm also thinking that other nonnie was right about DW being left in the dust. Tumblr is actually starting to look fun to me, provided I can ignore all the 'wah wah, people hold different opinions from me and I don't understaaaaaaaand, I'ma spam all the main tags about it' bullshit.

And I'm wondering about twitter. I like the idea of being able to follow some of my favorite celebrities, but what's the fandom community like on there? Does fandom get discussed much or is it just fandom people talking about how their dog threw up on the couch and stuff?

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- yes
- more for name squatting, and tracking here. I don't see a point in actually using DW when everything's still on LJ and everyone who's on DW crossposts to LJ anyway
- I have my fic backed up on AO3, and I use twitter to keep in touch with the people on my flist who are actually friends.
- Bibro wincester

- Do you have a DW account?
Yes.

- is it your backup or primary one?
Backup.

- Do you have other backups?
Actually, I have an account on insanejournal that I made back at the time of the strikethrough... never did anything with it because I just can't with IJ.. Sorry HP fandom but it's a dealbreaker.

- Ship, character affiliation
Wincest, Deangirl.

Haven't been able to post since the outage started. Sporadic ability to see pages if I'm not logged in, but can't navigate between pages. Have gotten more writing done, though. It is confirming to me that I need to meme less if I want to write more :(

1). Yes
2) Backup account, rarely used.
3) I have fic posted at AO3, but that's it. No tumblr or twitter or anything.
4) Sam-leaning bibro Wincester

The other regrettable thing the loss of LJ led me to do is visit the TWOP boards. It was not nice there :(

1. Yes.
2. Backup. Or well, I have one account that is purely backup and one account that I sometimes post to about deep serious things.
3. Uhhh...somewhere on IJ there's an account mirror that hasn't been updated in years. And there's always Tumblr but that's not backup so much as the hooker on the side, you knkow?
4. Dean!girl, Wincest-heavy multishipper. Basically I'm an enigma.

I've been able to see LJ for a few hours here and there and have gotten a few comments through (only really short ones) after hours of trying, but a lot of the time since Monday morning LJ has been completely down for me.

1. Yes
2. Backup (though that may change now)
3. AO3 for fic
4. Dean-leaning bibro Wincester, J2, open to other pairings

Apart from fuckyeahfanficflamingo, tumblr baffles me (I prefer GIFs/picspams on LJ where there's comment threads like I'm used to?) as does using twitter for fandom. I like more text about the fannish stuff that interests me, not less, I guess....

- Yes
- Backup
- No
- Samgirl wincester

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