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ft_directory) wrote2000-03-02 07:57 pm
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Player Poll - Location
Hey there, gentlebeings. Livejournal Release 89 and the "Classic" comments feature have been live for a week now, so as promised, we're getting a poll out here so you can vote on options for Fandom High's location.
We'll leave this poll open until 11:59 PST on Saturday the 10th, so you don't need to vote right away. You've still got a week to test out the LJ updates before making a decision.
Aside from the expected Livejournal or Dreamwidth choice, we've also offered a "let's wait" option, for those who don't feel ready to decide one way or the other, and the ever popular "None of the above; I'll tell you my suggestion in the comments."
You can vote with any one of your character journals, or even your personal journal if it's more convenient at the time; like our much-missed Harriet Jones, we know who you are. Just please only vote once! (We trust you; we just want to make sure that's clear because some OOC/IC polls, like radio broadcasters, are open to votes from multiple characters, same player.)
You can also edit your vote at any time up until the poll closes, so no need to panic if circumstances change and so does your mind; just go here to update your response.
Some LJ and Dreamwidth Stuff To Consider
Livejournal
Dreamwidth
We're not trying to influence y'all in either direction; obviously both of those options each have their drawbacks and benefits, nor did we come anywhere near listing them all. (There are more described here in the Open Forum, though some of those have been improved by the updates mentioned above.) We just want to make sure you have as much information as possible to work from.
[Poll #1823275]
We'll leave this poll open until 11:59 PST on Saturday the 10th, so you don't need to vote right away. You've still got a week to test out the LJ updates before making a decision.
Aside from the expected Livejournal or Dreamwidth choice, we've also offered a "let's wait" option, for those who don't feel ready to decide one way or the other, and the ever popular "None of the above; I'll tell you my suggestion in the comments."
You can vote with any one of your character journals, or even your personal journal if it's more convenient at the time; like our much-missed Harriet Jones, we know who you are. Just please only vote once! (We trust you; we just want to make sure that's clear because some OOC/IC polls, like radio broadcasters, are open to votes from multiple characters, same player.)
You can also edit your vote at any time up until the poll closes, so no need to panic if circumstances change and so does your mind; just go here to update your response.
Some LJ and Dreamwidth Stuff To Consider
Livejournal
- Has fixed the order of the icon selector on the default comment pages so it's alphabetical by keyword again (but not the problem where it shows you icons you can't actually use, including any with more than one keyword)
- Now offers comment-editing for all account levels
- Now offers a Classic Comment page as an alternative to the default
- Classic Comments are currently only available for Minimalism layouts; we don't know if that will expand to other styles
- Classic Comments currently don't work for basic accounts; that's a bug they've said will be fixed, but we don't know when
- Using Classic Comments currently turns off any custom CSS (so no header pictures, no changing the width of the sidebar, etc.); we don't know if they'll fix that
- Classic Comments also have the additional bugs listed here, which have been acknowledged, but we don't know when they'll be fixed
Dreamwidth
- Offers comment-editing only for paid/premium accounts
- Has no Plus option, but free users get 15 userpics (compared to LJ's 6)
- Now offers importing for both journals and communities, basic as well as paid
- Now offers the chance to "claim" imported LJ comments by tying them to a Dreamwidth journal, which means that userpics in old posts will show up
- Currently has a maximum of 250 icons, and no a la carte options; you must have a Premium Paid account to get that many, which only has 6-month or 1 year options, nothing shorter
- However, they're actively working on adding additional userpic packages for paid and premium accounts (with some potentially nifty features for RP, which you can read more about in that post). Prices haven't been established yet, though, and we don't know when this will actually happen.
- Can't be paid for via PayPal, which can be a hassle for international users.
We're not trying to influence y'all in either direction; obviously both of those options each have their drawbacks and benefits, nor did we come anywhere near listing them all. (There are more described here in the Open Forum, though some of those have been improved by the updates mentioned above.) We just want to make sure you have as much information as possible to work from.
[Poll #1823275]
Re: General Discussion
I hope we don't decide to stay, but if we do, I'll make a custom style that fixes it so that it allows custom css, and do the same for the other LJ styles.