dreamwidth! or, today's poem has nothing to do with my journal plans.

[glass_icarus]

Leaving Chinatown

Slicing a mango to share between us, your mother
smiles at the grinning fool I've become, pours me
more and more wine. You’re working late uptown.
Green platanos searing in oil, saffron rice boiling,

black beans simmer with sofrito, chili, red onion
until steam clouds the room, tasting of salt,
wetting my eyes. What lies between us feels thin
as this mist, as strange. How real is it? When she takes

my face in her hands as she would open a fruit,
her ravaged voice cutting through me, I see her
as she must have been once, afraid of nothing—long before

she fell in love with your father, a man who shattered
what he touched, who left her eyes galled by all the other
faces, like yours, she might have looked into with love.

-- Suji Kwock Kim

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thanks to the lovely avendya, i am now fairly set up over at dreamwidth: glass_icarus! the intro post is made, as well as a bit of personal fandom history, if you guys are interested. :D

i haven't decided what i'm doing yet, journal-wise, but i don't plan to leave LJ for the foreseeable future (unless the majority of my fandoms decide to migrate, which is extremely unlikely as i have many of them), so do not panic! i'm definitely not about to jump ship. &hearts

Comments

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Dreamwiiiiiidth. *rolls* I want one too, preciouseses.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

*joins the bandwagon* Me tooooo!

Although I have to admit I don't really understand how dreamwidth is different from inksome...?

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

I don't know either - it's just that I've heard about it since Strikethrough, and it just seems like a good place to be to see if it really lifts off. :D Plus, new places = full of new people!

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth is an LJ fork in that it's based on the LJ code, but it has a lot of improvements (http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dreamwidth_changes_from_LJ), like separating the friends list into access list (people you want to read your locked posts) and subscription list (people whose posts you want to read). Plus it is ad-free. It's run by two ex-LJ employees, so they know the code well and know what they want to change. Its mission statement is much more user-friendly than LJ's, in that they say they will treat users as people and not as a commodity. Also one of the founders is a pan-fandom BNF, so a lot of fandom has faith in the company from the start.

The website is http://dreamwidth.org/ and a number of people have written journal entries explaining why they're moving to Dreamwidth (http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Why_Dreamwidth).

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

*g* I should've clarified my comment - I know about Dreamwidth, but I don't know much about Inksome. \o

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Ah! Inksome was intended to be an LJ fork as well, and specifically fannish, but the person who started it was not a programmer and got tired of doing it, and the person she passed it off to is not really able to devote himself to much development, although he is being very conscientious about upgrading, which is more than 90% of the LJ clones can say.

FYI, the owners of Inksome and Insanejournal have expressed interest in becoming DW clones, and might migrate to that codebase by the end of the year.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

*g* It'd be pretty awesome if IJ shifted to the DW codebase, since it looks like there'll be much more user-friendly developments going on there than what's currently available. \o

Daw, but at the end of the day I'm still probably going to be a mostly-LJ kid at heart. Crossposting takes the wind outta me.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

Ah, this was the bit that was confusing me. Because both Inksome and dreamwidth are all about being fandom-friendly, but I'm more comforted by the fact that dreamwidth is tech-savvy as well. Thanks for the explanation.

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

*g* i don't actually have invites, as i said to K, but i will let you guys know if/when i get any! :)

i haven't heard anything about inksome, but dreamwidth's access/subscription system seems a lot more practical than LJ's friend system.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth is an LJ fork in that it's based on the LJ code, but it has a lot of improvements (http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dreamwidth_changes_from_LJ), like separating the friends list into access list (people you want to read your locked posts) and subscription list (people whose posts you want to read). Plus it is ad-free. It's run by two ex-LJ employees, so they know the code well and know what they want to change. Its mission statement is much more user-friendly than LJ's, in that they say they will treat users as people and not as a commodity. Also one of the founders is a pan-fandom BNF, so a lot of fandom has faith in the company from the start.

The website is http://dreamwidth.org/ and a number of people have written journal entries explaining why they're moving to Dreamwidth (http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Why_Dreamwidth).

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

thanks for the info! :)

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

hee! i don't actually have invite codes (i'm there on Ave's invite, actually), but if/when i receive any, i'll definitely update! :)

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

:DDD

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Very tasty poem! Made me hungry. ;-) Rather heartbreaking though as well, of course.