More Tumblr migration-related links

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:01:15 GMT

EDIT: This has been sitting in my drafts for days; I meant to have a proper update on Monday but I'm very scattered right now as I wasn't well for a couple of days. So meanwhile, here's this:

I'm trying to resist my curatorial urges because I can't possibly document everything, but I am going to keep listing the posts I find most interesting/useful:

- greywash summarised the history of Strikethrough on LiveJournal, and its similarities to the current situation, extremely well, and explored what we need in our long-term fandom solution, which may not be DW or Pillowfort or anything that exists... yet.
- pangodillo made a post, alluded to in the one above, about what DW lacks, particularly for people used to Tumblr or to whom a comment box is kind of intimidating
- snickfic made the No-Frills Multifandom Friending Meme
- angelofthenorth made a non-fandom friending meme
- staranise posted Basic Dreamwidth for Tumblr users, which is a wonderfully concise guide to the basics - the sort of stuff old-school LJ/DW people may not even realise is unintuitive about DW when you've been used to Tumblr.
- conuly rounded up many how-to links and resources, and importantly has figured out how to follow your friends' Tumblr posts from Dreamwidth
- niqaely tells us how to cross-post from Instagram to Dreamwidth
- kore tells us how to filter out tags on your Reading page

Special thanks to umadoshi who alerted me to several of these!

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Tuesday morning links roundup

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:48:51 GMT

I have tabs to close, and miles to go before I... shower.

People trying to boost their DW/LJ flists might be interested in a couple of friending memes: mapping_stars is hosting a New Year's Friending Meme, and there's also a yuletide-specific one here.

Meanwhile, ruuger's come up with the perfect meme for people trying to post more often:

When you see this, make a post in your journal or in a community. It can be anything: a crosspost something you've posted on Tumblr, a few words about the last thing you read/watched, or just a "Hi, how is everyone?" Then go read your f-list and leave at least one comment.

She also pointed me to the snowflake_challenge, which still has a week to run and is a fun way to get to know more people/do more in fandom generally.

Reading-wise, jesuswasbatman has come up with "Doctor Who: A Guide For The Overwhelmed", a great, approachable primer on the televisual history of Doctor Who's different eras/Doctors/production teams: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

The vc_media Queen of the Damned group read schedule is up! Still need input from someone who has the US Ballantine paperback to hand to check page numbers...

Sad news this morning is that The Last Ship is to close on Broadway, though apparently they have hopes for licensing, so we might yet get to see it here... /nurtures fragile hope

ETA: This is too hilarious not to share: Ted Turner's Doomsday video has surfaced (or, as I suspect, has been circulating for some time, but has now splashed on my particular internet shore again). It was intended to be played in the event of... well, the end of the world. Unfortunately for our household, we just rewatched Mars Attacks last night, and this feels like a cut scene from that movie...

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More Tumblr migration-related links

Tuesday morning links roundup