I've updated my blog.

[veek]

This one.

Anything worthy of posting, I'll be posting there from now on. Posts here will appear but rarely. I realize this will be inconvenient for some (all?) of my LJ-hound friends, but as I've mentioned before, I am not particularly enamored of the social dynamic potentially (!) created by LiveJournal. I don't like that friends-lists cannot be hidden, and that it's potentially hurtful to someone if I don't list them as "friend". I don't like worrying over whether to lock my posts, and wanting to create a different custom group for every locked post I do make. If there's private info I want to share, I'll share it individually. I like hosting my blog on my own (host's) server space. Et cetera.

I know there's a way to cross-post private bloggage to LJ, but don't really have time to figure it out. I think there's a way to make it an RSS feed, but again won't bother with that. If you'd like to read what I post on there, please bookmark it. If not, I promise to not be offended.

(Note: this is not an "I hate LiveJournal" post. I actually quite like it. I just want to have my own thing. And possibly cut down on feeling obligated to read my "friends" page.)

Comments

[nothings.livejournal.com]

it's when I do lock a post for whatever reason - that's when I have to re-evaluate who on my friends list can see them

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Stop doing it. Also, stop doing it somewhere else."

My point is that the first change is all that's necessary.

This isn't something that offends me; I just wanted to point out that this doesn't universalize well (i.e. if everybody decided to do it); moreover, you're not the first person whose LJ I read who's moved their primary journalling off of LJ, so my "20 people" comment was not entirely idle. (Henceforth I will refer to "moving one's primary journalling off of LJ" as "moving one's journal off LJ", as I did in my previous post.)

Obviously, it's up to you to do what you will, but I think you overestimate the willingness of most people to read lots of isolated journals. (Then again, maybe I underestimate it. I don't know whether your example of journals you read and bookmark are personal, social journals, or you're just talking about the big, high-publicity blogs. As the various bloggers pointed out in the power curve discussion, readership for the average journal is better on LJ because of the communal, social effect.)

This comment is an oversimplification:

please don't be jumpy about "having to" add another bookmark. If you don't want to, don't.

The reality here is that I want to read what you have to write. But I know (from experience) that the mechanism you propose for me reading what you write is inconvenient. Now, you can say, "well, if you don't want to read what I write if it's just a tiny bit inconvenient, then you obviously don't really want to read what I write", but my point is that that "little bit of inconvenience" adds up hideously when a lot of people do it. It's no longer a "little bit of inconvenience", but a massive inconvenience.

If your goal is to raise the bar necessary to read your journal, so that fewer people will do so, then fine, since that seems to me to be the main actual consequence of moving your journal off LJ. But that's not a motivation you've ever listed. ("I like hosting my blog on my own server space" is certainly another real, significant consequence, but you seemed to have tossed that on as a minor thing.)

Anyway, since I have no clue what actual/potential psychodrama you may or may not have confronted or being facing confronting--nor do I expect you to explain--you can have the last word and I will drop the subject.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Sigh. If I don't respond to you, I'll be ignoring you. If I do, I'm having the last word and am stubborn and inflexible.

Oh wait, I'm stubborn and inflexible anyway!

You seem to be departing from a crucial, and incorrect, premise: that I have cared who actually, actively, has been reading my journal, in the first place.

Yeah, I'm making it inconvenient for you. If you still read what I say, great. If you don't, fine. Really. If you want to be reading what I write, then you will, and you won't whine about it. If you get sufficiently annoyed with this exchange or with the inconvenience or both, you won't read it, and that is fine too.

I knew I should've disabled comments on this. This is Not About You. It's about me, and what's most convenient for me.

If I find an easy way to make an RSS feed into this, great. If not, tough cookies. With a prelim not a month and a half away, I'm prioritizing this Low.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

I don't consider you stubborn and inflexible, and I'm sorry if you took my offer to give you the last word the wrong way--my intent was to avoid things like "I can't believe this is still going on" or "I should've disabled comments on this" by making clear that it ended here.

[joecaloric.livejournal.com]

Then you don't know her very well. Stubbornness and inflexibility are Veek hallmarks. ;) (Well maybe not inflexibility in all things, but she's very stubborn and she celebrates it.) :) I don't understand why you felt the need to comment so vociferously just because she is moving her blog. I mean everything you said is fine, but is it really that big of a deal?)

A.J. (who has already set the bookmark)

[tablesaw]

I have nothing to add other than, very far after the fact, it is now I who have the last word in this thread! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!