It feels more like a migration this time, and we're not even into open beta season!

That's how it feels. There seems to be a consensus that DW may be more fandom-friendly.

Right now, I just hope I can snag my LJ username over there when the time comes.

I've gone through Open ID and set up a profile. I "have" my LJ name, for whatever it's worth, that's tied to my profile, although my login is still my OID address, which actually includes my LJ username. I was auto-subbed to DWdev, and have subbed to one other com familiar from LJ.

I never managed to set up filters for my flist on LJ. DW is even MORE confusing to me because I'm not at all conversant with the building and coding side of things. I just glom onto things that sort of work for me and push them in the direction I want them to go, until they snap into place or, you know, just snap.

I hate the LJ changes, but I really love my userpage, my stunning (well, I think so) and painstakingly accumulated collection of userpics, and I'm reluctant to pay for DW too (I'm paid up through 2009 at LJ) until I see whether it flies.

I'm reluctant to friend people I already have friended at LJ--heaven knows I'm hesitant to ask to friend people I read on comms but have never actually friended. I'm petrified I'm going to lose track of my favorite authors, as well as some non-fannish friends.

In short, change terrifies me. I don't like it, no matter how shiny something new is. But DW does feel like it's going to be a Better Thing than LJ has become, so. Somebody hold my hand!

Bev, dude, I need so much less excuse than that to hold your hand.

What amych said

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Erm, thank you!

And Anne, too. Amazing I'm able to make any progress at all with this combination of flail and tiptoe, isn't it?

I'm reluctant to friend people I already have friended at LJ--heaven knows I'm hesitant to ask to friend people I read on comms but have never actually friended. I'm petrified I'm going to lose track of my favorite authors, as well as some non-fannish friends.

This is my feeling too. I'm finally pretty good at searching through the morass that is lj to locate fiction by people, and now I'm afraid that suddenly they'll disappear. It's kind of the same feeling of "oh no, where did they go and how long will I have to spend in Google to find them?" that I have when people let their index pages and links go dead (I've run into this a lot in popslash). Part of it is my fear and reluctance to jump into something new and forcing myself to learn my way around a whole new place. And going through the whole friending thing again just makes me fearful. (Yes, inwardly I am 12.) And I think perhaps that a teeny portion of me is looking at the whole "friends-need-to-invite-you-to-play" state that it's in at the moment, and it makes me take a big step back. I understand why they need to keep the user pool manageable right now, it's just that it's like being in a classroom and some of the kids were invited to the birthday party and the others weren't.

I'm reluctant to friend people I already have friended at LJ

Whereas I'm going to spend part of this evening merrily tracking down people and adding them to my ... circle? That's the term?

DW will be interesting for me, because I feel that it it going to be primarily fannish, and I'm on the fringes of fandom. LJ is still going to be my main social networking thing. Hell, I still forget to go look at/update Facebook for days at a time.

The invite code thing does suck a little, which I can say with impunity now that I have a DWJ. But they assure us that when the site goes into open beta, people will have plenty of invite codes to spread around. And if you can't find an invite code, you just need to pay $3 to get an account.

Morgana, offhandedly, though neither shrift or I read popslash, we know several people who do, so let me know if you're looking for someone specific.

I'd even say in general: popslash or no, somebody somewhere is bound to know where to find people.

Invite codes do a couple of awesome things: one, they keep the account creation down to a sustainable level; two, thanks to one, they reduce the number of spam journals amount of malicious sockpuppetry.