I'm leaving LiveJournal. No, really this time. I do intend to keep reading my f-list.

Add the following LJ syndicated feed to read the Continuing Adventures of Dan4th:
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I feel like I know how my readership skews, but what if I'm wrong? Call this my market research.

Poll #1154228 Demographic curiosity (viewable only to Dan, aggregate data to be displayed later)
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 60

How old are you?

Best gender label?

Where do you live?

Educational attainment label

meta: Feed readers that work with LJ protected posts:

Including:
Readers that work by prior login
Readers that work by modified URL
Gadgets to export your friends-list to OPML (suitable for importing into readers)

This is awesome. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

Asking my LiveJournal friends for advice about feed aggregators is like asking lesbians for advice about fellatio. They might know something, but they probably don't use it much.

This post is in response to a comment thread on "How to Migrate". I thought it might be useful to show an example of what a feed aggregator is, and how it's like (and unlike) the LiveJournal friends-page. Maybe by discussing what I don't like about the aggregators I've tried, people can point me at ones that will work.

( What I've tried: Google Reader and Firefox Live Bookmarks )
Finding a way to read friends-locked posts from somewhere other than LiveJournal is the main thing that has kept me from migrating off of LJ before now. I have asked for help and guidance on this issue a couple of times.

In completely unrelated news, if you haven't given me your mailing address yet, I'd really like it.

The news of the day, as I'm sure you've read, is that LiveJournal has been purchased again, this time by a company about which I've heard nothing but complaints. Between this, and the recent tagging nonsense, I guess it's time to move on. (EDIT: It's mostly the tagging nonsense. But it's also mostly that I'm sick of asking "Is this the thing that makes me move?")

It's been a long time in coming. I really didn't want to migrate away from LiveJournal until I was ready to have my own hosting. It's not like there aren't dozens of other "free blogging sites" on the internet. I've even claimed "dan4th" at a couple of them. But switching from LiveJournal to Blogger seems like an utter waste of energy. It would be switching from an interface and option-set that I really like and am comfortable with to another that doesn't have the features I care about, and isn't convenient to the community I've spent 6 years building. I don't particularly care about filters or usericons, but I haven't found a hack that actually works to allow me to read other people's filtered posts through any site other than LiveJournal.

I've already purchased the domain differenceblog.com, and I wouldn't mind having my personal journal kept at dan4th.differenceblog.com, if I could figure out how to do that. I don't know why I'm so intimidated by the idea of using different software, but I am. I'm kind of terrified, actually. When did I get so old and afraid of learning something new? Seriously, I think I'd be less worried about moving to a different country. I'd certainly be less worried about losing friends.

Well, I tried flagging my journal as adult-content (14+). I have features called Slut Chat; I thought it was appropriate. However, it's also apparently really fucking annoying. So, I've turned the flagging off. I may go back and flag individual entries, but not if they're friends-locked, and I don't think I have anything especially explicit left public.

No more being adult for me.

Like neitherday , I have been informed that I have reached my 1000-tag limit, and I can't add any new tags until I delete some. Actually, after deleting 1,500+ a couple weeks ago, I still have 1,102. I've started deleting redundant tags -- apparently I had both "geek" and "geeks", and I don't mind consolidating those. However, before I get too involved in getting rid of tags (vanity tags for people's names will not be deleted), I thought I'd copy this down for my reference:

( 1102 tags, organized by usage - people's names in bold. I thought I'd make your narcissism easy. )

All of my userpics are pictures of me. This is sort of a personal rule. I can't recall when I decided to make it a "rule." Well, clearly somewhere between yesterday and 7 years ago. However, there have been a few poking-fun-at-Livejournal icons that have made me consider breaking it:

Livejournal: Because you can't masturbate all the time.

Livejournal: We know drama.

Livejournal: like the abusive spouse you keep going back to.

This is the 3,500th post to this LJ. I have posted over 15K comments, and received over 18K. In the words of Jeff Albertson: "Oh, I've wasted my life."

edit: Hm. There's all these movies about people discovering they are the last person left alive, and getting all heroic and stuff. If I know people, though, at some point they'll find a working internet terminal, and start posting "LAST!!!1!!" to all the forums they can find.

edit2: In case it wasn't clear, this is an invitation for you to make meaningless comments just to show off your wikkid kewl LJ-related userpics.

neitherday just left me this comment which seems like an important notice to share:

"As you are someone I know that uses many tags, I'm warning you that my journal was just suspended for having too many tags (I didn't receive any warning). They told me I have to delete tags until I am under 1000, a number which you greatly exceed as well. I'm reluctant to do this, so I am still suspended and am currently trying to reach another solution with lj_abuse. I'll keep you updated on how that works out.

-neitherday"

*backs up LJ, again*

EDIT: As of right now, I have 2622 tags. 1522 of these have been used one time. :-\

Ye gods, I hate these posts. This is one of the things that people understandably despise about LJ, but here I am doing it anyway. I think, and I could be wrong, that no one who is actually reading my journal was just cut from my friends-list. I'm reworking my "Default View" over the next few days because my reading list got out of control again. If I cut you, it's because you haven't answered a poll or commented recently, and I had the mistaken impression that you had stopped reading. If you've taken Content Free Friday in the past two weeks, I didn't cut you.

Please feel free to comment or email if you're still interested in reading non-public posts. (About 10% of my total content, at last count.) Comments are screened to protect me from the embarrassment of you pointing out that you commented just last week, and I forgot about it.

This weekend I posted something that I thought would bore the pants off everyone, and I was pleasantly surprised by how many people actually seemed interested. It occurs to me that I don't know why a lot of you keep reading. I thought I'd ask:

Poll #1079309 Low-content Monday (look out, soon all days will be bereft of content!)
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

I read Livejournal:

Which do you enjoy more

How well do you know Dan4th?

I read Dan4th's LJ because...

Name something you (the reader) and I (dan4th) have in common?