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

[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.