flist woes

[green]

I miss some of my friends who are still at LJ and not likely to leave. I understand, you have problems with DW or you don't want to leave LJ because of the people still there. You might end up like me, ignoring the ones you left behind. Or, like A, you hate DW with fiery death hate. I don't understand that, but I accept it.

THE PROBLEM IS THIS: I'm missing out on your important posts! Until a few days ago, I only had 1. a2zmom on a feed (which doesn't pick up locked entries) and 2. ladycat777 tracked so that I get entries in my inbox/email. That's it! Today I added like, one more person to tracking, but there's got to be an easier way to do this. I have many more people I want to follow who are only at LJ.

So here is what you can do to help me. If you have a DW with mirrored content and I don't have it added to my circle, LET ME KNOW. I will add you gleefully. If you are only posting at LJ, let me know that, too. I will figure out what to do with this knowledge.

I know some people on my flist read both places. In order to do that I will have to do a mass defriending at LJ, so if I go that route and you get cut, keep in mind that I'm reading you SOMEWHERE. Probably. :\ I might cut some people because of fannish drift or the whole 'we were never that close anyway, woe' but please don't take it personally if that happens.

OH. And if, like a2zmom you have a feed over here at Dreamwidth, it would be AWESOME if you let me know so I can add it.

Comments

[newredshoes]

So actually the mass defriending isn't necessary at all, if that's a thing that people don't like -- I put people who are crossposting on a filter on LJ, so I'd only read the people who were exclusive to LJ there. It's been a while, so I don't remember where exactly you do it, but that's an option too!

[green]

OH RIGHT. I forgot about filters. /o\

I'll definitely do that instead. Whew. Thank you for reminding me of that feature. I never use it anywhere to read, only to post under filter. Which I don't do often anyway.

[renaissance_slacker]

Mine's half-assedly mirrored, when I (1) remember to post to DW instead of directly to LJ so it actually does end up on both, and (2) when I feel like I don't mind a wider variety of people seeing it (which makes NO sense because I only have like 3 friends on DW and you're the only one who ever posts, so really you'd be the only person seeing it who wouldn't normally, and I didn't even realize that because I read your posts on LJ and therefore associate you with LJ.)

I haven't had much to say in the past few months, anyway, but I do read my flist and in the future if I want to reply to one of your posts, I'll click over to DW to do it! And I forgot to do that in THIS VERY REPLY, so I just deleted it there and pasted it here.

I've occasionally thought I should make more of an effort to friend people on DW, but it seems to be more fan-oriented and I have been pretty much out of the loop for fannish stuff (I have no idea what most of the newer fandoms even are). And I still have a group of friends on LJ who've stuck around since like 2003 and don't see any reason to switch to a different blogging platform.

[green]

haha I just replied to your deleted reply on LJ. /o\ I think you'll get it. I'm going to make a reading filter on LJ and I'll put you on it. <3

[renaissance_slacker]

You know what, I don't know off the top of my head if I've been posting to both lately or not -- if I used the blog client on my laptop it automatically goes to both. I mostly just haven't been posting much at all. Kind of in a "Do I really want to write about this? Maybe, but it's boring and nobody's going to want to read it, so I'll just write it in a text document and then delete it." state of mind lately.

[green]

I definitely know that feeling of being too boring to post about. :\