Hello again, Dreamwidth

[mrissa]

So people are leaving lj, and I see why. But my lj has been a mirror site for my blog (www.marissalingen.com/blog/ !) for awhile now, so I guess my question is: how many of you only read blogs on Dreamdwidth? (That is, not independent blogs?) My sense of the matter is that the community that used to exist on lj has not reconstituted itself on dw, so I would like to know how much point there is to mirroring my blog on dw rather than just going on with the blog I already have.

Reading is a different question; I have been reading my dw circle and intend to continue doing so. So this is not a question of will I see you. It's whether you will see me.

Comments

[mrissa]

Yes, what I'm trying to find out is whether it's worth it for me to bother to do that. Or whether it will create another cycle of "Look, I am using an outside blog aggregator and now they have changed the terms to be odious and/or people have wandered off."

[sraun]

I only read blogs on LJ or DW - that has the advantage of LJ/DW does the 'is there new content?' checking for me. Without that, there are too many blogs that I'm interested in where the updates are too sporadic. If I try to read them directly, I either stop because I'm getting too many 'no new content' hits, or because there's too much new content when I get around to checking.

Since your blog has an easily findable RSS feed, it's trivial to set up a feed to DW. I can do it in about a minute. Want me to?

[mrissa]

So I guess my other question is, will people find and follow the RSS, or should I go to the trouble of getting a cross-posting plug-in? I will think on this, and input is welcome.

[ckd]

I prefer native crossposts to a feed, though that's mostly because I remember some amazing breakages in the old LJ feed system.

Were it me, I'd probably do the crossposting just so I could get comment emails....

[mrissa]

It is that last point that gives me pause, yes. I'm not convinced that there will be a great many comments--it looks to me like comment thread conversations are mostly dying off in this environment--but I would rather have the ones I get delivered than disappearing into the ether.

[mrissa]

So to be clear, thanks for the offer, please stand by.

[sraun]

No problem!

One way to deal with the 'will people find it' might be to put a pointer to it in other places they might find?

[mrissa]

Update: someone has already created a dw feed for my blog posts without me knowing it! So I have some time to figure out the plug-in for cross-posting...but that's looking worth the time to me because comments.