Continuing

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone for your comments.  So far, most respondants have favored a move to Dreamwidth. It's the option that tampopo and I have favored as well.

Some worries about the move are a loss of community members and readership; a loss of reccers; a loss of coverage in newsletters and links to the comm. I hope networking and publicity can help somewhat.

Concerning cross-posting from DW to LJ, that option isn't possible for communities. However, setting up an RSS feed for a DW comm, for reading-only on LJ, may be a solution.

I'm proposing a move of the active community to Dreamwidth by May 1. The LJ comm would be backed up completely on DW and the comm on LJ would be closed to all new posts and comments. It would remain as an archive here for as long as LJ allows.

Information would be posted here in a sticky post on locating the new comm, on the (I hope) RSS feed to continue following the comm on LJ, and on Dreamwidth in general.

As always, comments are welcome.

Comments

[ancientreader]

I'm glad you're going. Doubtless there will be some loss of readership, but there would be if you stayed, too, since so many people are bailing on LJ.

Many people find Tumblr unsatisfactory, and some of those people were trickling over here; I think there's hope that they and others will trickle over to DW, as well.

[eve_n_furter]

The RSS is a good idea. Please post the link here when you have set it up.

[opaljade.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll follow the community on Dreamwidth. :D (And I will try to sign up to rec more often).

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

Lead on - I for one, will follow!

[cordelia_v]

I hope that you do move the comm to DW. I'm over there now, and I find this community valuable.

[sanguinity]

After importing, are you going to update the spreadsheet to point to the DW posts for each of the existing recs? (Perhaps in addition to the URLs that are already there?)

And if so, would you like some help with that?

[unovis.livejournal.com]

The mechanics are still under consideration. Thanks for the offer, and I'll contact you if help (most likely!) is needed.

I'll be looking for more assistance with the DW comm.

[sanguinity]

What kind of assistance with the DW comm?