I still can't quite process the complication of their subscription page, but I'm going to try to poke at it just in case, so if I have to switch over, I can.
What about the subscription pages is confusing? In most cases I grant people access and subscribe because I want to read their posts and I trust them, but I understand the separation of the two functions: there exist people you want to keep track of, but don't necessarily want reading all your personal stuff.
I don't want to lose people! OTOH these communities come together and break, and I learned after the heartbreak of GEnie's demise not to count upon anything lasting. (SFF.NET bit the dust a few days ago, sigh.)
This will be the first time I have lost a community. I came late to LiveJournal and only because I needed some kind of platform to promote my first published books and was tired of finding out months after the fact that friends had gotten married or divorced or dropped out of grad school or reproduced; I joined Dreamwidth even later as a kind of mirror hosting of LiveJournal, because in 2013 I was merely worried LJ might fold up and die. It hurts.
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What about the subscription pages is confusing? In most cases I grant people access and subscribe because I want to read their posts and I trust them, but I understand the separation of the two functions: there exist people you want to keep track of, but don't necessarily want reading all your personal stuff.
I don't want to lose people! OTOH these communities come together and break, and I learned after the heartbreak of GEnie's demise not to count upon anything lasting. (SFF.NET bit the dust a few days ago, sigh.)
This will be the first time I have lost a community. I came late to LiveJournal and only because I needed some kind of platform to promote my first published books and was tired of finding out months after the fact that friends had gotten married or divorced or dropped out of grad school or reproduced; I joined Dreamwidth even later as a kind of mirror hosting of LiveJournal, because in 2013 I was merely worried LJ might fold up and die. It hurts.
(I'm sorry to hear about SFF Net.)