Poll on Dreamwidth, Livejournal, and other Blog Usage

[charmian]

Time for a poll: all are free to participate!

Poll #2464 Poll on Blog/Journal Usage

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 78

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Describe your usage of Dreamwidth

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I post in my Dreamwidth journal on a regular basis
67 (85.9%)

I have a DW journal, but don't post in the journal itself, but use it only to read other journals and comment
6 (7.7%)

Other
5 (6.4%)

Describe your usage of Livejournal

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I have a Livejournal, and I post in it regularly
10 (12.8%)

I have a LJ, but only post in it crossposts from DW
38 (48.7%)

I have a LJ, but only use it to read other journals/comment
17 (21.8%)

I don't have a LJ, or if I have one, I never log in and never use it
5 (6.4%)

Something else not covered here
8 (10.3%)

What other blogging services do you use?

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Other Livejournal Clone(s) [Insanejournal, Journalfen, etc)
13 (28.9%)

Self-hosted Wordpress
18 (40.0%)

Wordpress.com
6 (13.3%)

Typepad/MT
1 (2.2%)

Tumblr
17 (37.8%)

Posterous
3 (6.7%)

Other type of blog (elaborate in comments?)
11 (24.4%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

My DW is not so much regular as it is reasonably frequent. Heh.

My LJ contains: frequent crossposted content from DW, regular (and frequent) imports from Twitter (which are not mirrored on DW), and irregular and infrequent LJ-specific entries that are not mirrored on DW (but are pointed to, as DW-specific entries are not mirrored to LJ but get a pointer). (Well, if there are, like, radioactive entries, there's no pointer.)

[charmian]

Thanks for the response. BTW, do you have any specific reason for importing stuff from Twitter to LJ but not to DW?

Yeah, during the time I was blogging regularly at both DW and LJ at once, I generally wouldn't mirror content because most of the people who read me at LJ were also reading me at DW, so it ended up being redundant.

[azurelunatic]

First, because I was planning on just importing regularly to sync things up and I didn't want duplicates, and then, because it would have required pinging the dude to poke things around, and now mostly because of inertia.

If I actually do ever switch fully over, I'll definitely see to that, though.

[takemyrevolution]

99% of my stuff goes to DW.

I almost never post anything in my LJ anymore, just occasional links to things on my deviantART or Dreamwidth.

I occasionally post something at my InsaneJournal, but mostly that's just where I keep my master list of fan fiction. (For now, anyway. I will move more stuff to DW, I just haven't done it yet.)

[charmian]

Thanks for the clarifications.

I once had an IJ, but I think it was eventually purged...

[jenett]

- I cross-post everything except DW specific stuff into LJ, but still have comments open over there.

- I have a separate self-hosted WordPress blog that is public religious ponderings. I've been cross-posting it into LJ, and need to figure out how to make it drop into DW instead.

- I also have a WordPress hosted blog, which I use for professional stuff (and is not directly linked to/from the personal ones: different username, no cross-links.)

[charmian]

I wonder if this plugin might work? I haven't used it myself, though.

[princessofgeeks]

my RL blog is on blogspot.

i very rarely will make an LJ only post if it's something that is an LJ only topic.

[charmian]

Darn, I should have put blogger and blogspot on there too.

[matgb]

Yes, yes you should. I've used Blogger, Wordpress.com, several installs, a different MU install and a few minor platforms that failed. Never used an LJ clone, could never see the point.

Don't post enough anywhere currently, but mean to.

[flamebyrd]

I can't vote, it's giving me "invalid form submission" :/

I post almost all my content to both DW and LJ, but I don't have a footer on the LJ content so it's probably transparent to most LJ users.

[flamebyrd]

Nevermind, seems my login cookie had disappeared.

[synecdochic]

Sorry, I missed dessert. *noms on cookies*

:)

[flamebyrd]

Mmmm, cookies.

But it's kind of odd that it somehow disappeared between loading my friends page and my voting in the poll (~10 seconds?), plus all my refreshes and reattempts - I only realised what had happened when submitted my comment and I got the login prompt.

[synecdochic]

Yeah, disappearing login cookies can be a problem with some browser/OS/ISP combinations, and has been since the dawn of LJ, even. If it keeps happening to you, open a support request and the team will see what they can do, but generally when that happens it's best to chalk it up to the vagaries of browser-based technologies and just log back in again.

[flamebyrd]

*nods* I have a current recurring problem with LJ cookies disappearing whenever I restart Firefox, that DW thankfully seems to have escaped (Until Now *dramatic music*).

[synecdochic]

That sounds like you might have an extension somewhere that's designed to clear cookies when you close your browser! Check your plugin/extension settings, maybe?

There's always been a problem with LJLogin (and to an extent, LiveJournal AddOns) causing random logouts, too. I think a lot of the plugins just don't play nice.

[flamebyrd]

(I didn't mean to have you start debugging my LJ problems! Although I understand tech support can kind of become habitual...) Anyway, I'm not running any LJ addons or anything that clears cookies, and it's only started in the last month or so (since Firefox 3.6, maybe?) Very mysterious.

[synecdochic]

oh god, i've been doing lj support since 2002. That's how I originally got the job there in fact, I was bored at work, started volunteering, and wound up put in charge of everything. So yeah. *g*

And in that case, man, I got nothin'. That sort of problem is always nigh-impossible to debug, since it's impossible to reproduce unless you're in the user's same situation, so.

[niqaeli]

I swore off LJ altogether because, well, the last round of bullshit was my last.

I voted other on other services because I use Twitter and the whole micro-blogging thing... sort of counts? I feel like it is at least a major aspect of my social media experience these days, so.

[charmian]

Hmm, I didn't think people would count Twitter as blogging. I almost think of it as more like 'status' or Facebook updates. Perhaps I should have included a microblogging/Twitter section.

[damned_colonial]

My lj still exists but I don't post or read there.

I post only on dw.
I read lj friends' unlocked posts via rss.
I comment on lj usin dw openid whenever possible.

I use my lj account for:

private msgs to people
occasional community posts
a pointer to my dw

[charmian]

Hmm, I should have perhaps worded the question more specifically to cover such cases. I hadn't thought of the PM and community postings aspect.

[morineko]

Also should have posted "other" on the last; most of my recent blog activity is either on Twitter or posting to a large, multi-writer sports blog. You didn't have an option on the LJ question of "occasional posting."

[anotherpenguin]

My other blog is hosted by a guy who has his own domain. It's a French site :)
And I rarely update my blogs these days.

[davidcook]

... although describing my posting as "regular" on either site is a bit of an overstatement.
The only thing I would post only on LJ would be polls, since I have a perm. account there and free here, otherwise I use the magic of the crossposter. I read on both sites just about every day (usually in multiple sittings :-) )

[sarkka]

I post everything to DW and crosspost it to LJ as 99 % of my friends are still on LJ :/

I'd love to use just DW and I'm looking for if it's possible that my other friends who don't have any blogs could comment for instance with Facebook login or some other =)

[sally_maria]

Another one who posts to DW and crossposts to LJ because most of my friends are there and unlikely to move. :-(

I'm gradually moving the comms and other read-only stuff to feeds here, rather than having them friended on LJ.

[pne]

I missed something for the opposite direction: "I post regularly to LJ, and my DW is 99% crossposts from LJ".

I use Semagic, which can post to multiple journals at once, to do this. But the primary "target" was LiveJournal.

This may change; I have a new computer, and when I reinstalled Semagic, decided to use DW as the primary target and have DW auto-crosspost to LJ -- mostly because when I edited entries, I'd go to Semagic > Edit Last Entry, and it would only change the LJ entry, whereas editing a DW entry that's auto-crossposted would edit the LJ entry, too.

But so far, my "home base" is still mostly LiveJournal, and it's where I get the vast majority of comments from, so the DW was a cross-posting recipient for the benefits of those who've moved over mostly.

This may by changing slowly, but yeah.

[facetofcathy]

My use of LJ might be unique, because to do what I did is a pain in the backside. I imported my LJ, removed all content there, but manually linked to the content here in the original LJ post (I did that for fic only, and I only had about 18 months of posts, so...)

Now I post once a month to LJ linking to fic only wherever it is. I have never crossposted my regular DW entries.

I do use my LJ to read one comm that has all locked posts, and to monitor no_lj_ads to make sure the site is still safe enough to use at all. I comment on entries there with my LJ account, but I will not make entries in LJ comms. Once we have cross-site reading I may expand that LJ flist and read it here.

[watersword]

I am currently busy ripping out all my content on my old LJ account, to which I have not posted since December 31, 2007, and replacing it with links to the equivalent content on DW/AO3/my website. I use my DW OpenID on LJ to comment, and hate it because LJ's OpenID implementation sucks, but there are some people whose content I don't want to miss (and whose RSS feeds are truncated more than is useful to me). All content on my self-hosted Wordpress blog, which I share with berne, is mirrored here as public content; access-locked content here is nowhere else (except my regular backups).

::pant pant::

[bell]

I crosspost everything I can. The one exception would be features that I have only on lj (polls & those writer's block questions). Haven't done this in a while, but if I have a dw-only topic, I sometimes only post on DW.

[sub_divided]

I use my Dreamwidth account to comment on other Dreamwidth accounts, otherwise I don't log in to Dreamwidth. Occasionally I log in to Livejournal to read my friendslist, but only a very limited subset on heavy filter. Generally I read news articles through Google Reader these days; some Livejournal blogs and Dreamwidth blogs are in there too. Oh, and I log in to Tumblr to read, every couple days, but that's a much smaller list.

On the posting side, I use Tumblr for very general interest topics like reactions to news articles or marketing campaigns. Recently I have started to use Google Reader to comment on articles. I also have a Wordpress, and use it as a place to put my Livejournal content after it has been edited - Livejournal is the "rough draft" / share with friends blog and Wordpress is the posterity blog. But I haven't been posting there very much recently... I was thinking about doing more book reviews.

[snippy]

All my DW posts automagically roll down to LJ. I have one subject/filter that I only post to LJ, because nobody on DW wanted to be on the filter when I asked.

I have blog on Blogger.com that I update with about the same frequency as DW/LJ.

I have Facebook mainly because my daughter-in-law frequently posts pictures of my grandkids there and only there.

I also use Twitter, but I don't export that to any of my other platforms.

[petronia]

I can't call my DW posting "regular" but I do post here. (Even if experimentation has proven that if I care to get comments at all I have to cross-post to LJ. XD;)

[charmian]

I guess by regular I meant that it isn't 'did it once, and never again.'

Yeah, I think at this point, if you want comments on DW, you have to cultivate the people already at DW.

[tcpip]

I also kinda-sorta blog with Drupal. And kinda-sorta with Facebook.

For the life of me however, I can't work out what to do with Twitter.