Best Laid Plans and Apologies

[orangerful]

So, I think when the great LJ Migration happened a couple years ago after the site when full-Russia, I started unfollowing journals of people that had DW accounts. Problem is, I didn't upgrade my DW account so I wasn't able to get email notifications set up for everyone and didn't realize this until it was much later. Then this weekend when I was doing the Friendzy and looking at my feed, I saw so many entries I had no idea were being posted!! So I went in and signed up for email for EVERYONE and then went back and removed the 20 people I have on DW (DW had a limit unless you pay, and I do want to pay at some point because I love the site...but I think they had a winter sale last year so I'm going to hold out for that).

ANYWAY I feel bad, like I have been ignoring huge groups of you! I'm amazed you kept me on as a friend since my posts were showing up in your feeds and I wasn't saying anything in yours!

<3 <3 <3

Comments

[author_by_night]

Hey, on my end I don't think I even realized you were on DW until maybe two months ago, so if you weren't checking LJ you wouldn't have seen my posts because I didn't friend you. (Grant access? I just refer to it in LJ terms.) So no hard feelings here. :)

I do know the feeling, though. I swear LJ hides posts (almost Facebook style), because sometimes a friend will post, and I'll think "wow, I haven't heard from them in a while", then they'll reference something they seem to think we should know... and I'll realize I've missed their last 20 entries. :/ It's weird. It made sense back when LJ was super active, but there are times a week goes by and it's the same ten posts. So I don't know, but either way, I know the feeling.

[stolenglimpse]

Don't feel bad... I just made a post myself about having stopped catching up to my friends on lj. I'm not even gonna try mentioning DW because I barely ever come here honestly. Last I did was to post the bookish icons in the community and that didn't work as I planned it even though I changed the date on it so it's all in reverse now...

Also, I can no longer use the lj client to post on DW so that sucks... I mean, it was easy: open the client using DW's credentials and DW is set to crosspost to LJ so there was no worrying about not updating both places but now... Meh... I actually have to import from lj to DW and most times, I forget so...

I mainly haveLJ people on DW anyway so it's okay. Sometimes i think I should just close DW but I don't wanna.

[nodrog]

If the comment of a total stranger may be allowed:

No, indeed, LiveJournal did NOT dry up and blow away!  Dreamwidth is hanging in there, but nothing more.

But it's easy to think otherwise:  I have 100+ mutual LJ friends, and two (2) of them are still active.  And LJ communities?  It is to laugh.

“rust, dust & silence…”

Yet I'm more there than here, and many people would probably say the same.

p.s.  Hi!

Updated to add:

“Meanwhile, Dreamwidth” - may NOT be hanging on!  I hadn't checked in a while.  Wow.