My Journey

In my twenties and early thirties I used to blog almost everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. I used it as a tool to help sort out my thoughts and feelings about things I didn't want to talk about. At least back then I wanted to confront my issues and try to work through them, now I don't even want to acknowledge they exist. Even writing this is difficult.

So much as happened since April that I just want to curl up in a ball and just stay in that dark gloomy corner. I'm just so damn tired!

*Sigh*

I need to suck it up and just write. It's a free resource that I should take advantage of.

I like WordPress, but automating the cross posting was a headache, so for the time being I will be posting from DreamWidth. I still think it's fugly and I'm unsure if DreamWidth will even be around in the next two years, BUT it's the most compatible with Livejournal so...

Post : Greetings From WordPress!
URL : https://nibblezz.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/greetings-from-wordpress/
Posted : April 15, 2017 at 7:40 am
Author : nibblezz
Categories : Uncategorized

So this is my first cross post from WordPress. Considering there isn't a service that enables direct cross posting/sharing between Livejournal and WordPress, figuring everything out was a bit of a headache until I found this post ( http://www.lexislounge.net/2007/09/publish-your-blogger-blog-to.html )  detailing how to make use of Livejournal's email posting.

Instead of having a direct posting connection between WordPress and Livejournal, I added another connection, which is Dreamwidth.

DreamWidth was not necessary to enable the crossposting, but I added it as an backup/archive account. My Dreamwidth username is nibblezz ( http://nibblezz.dreamwidth.org/ ) . This is how my cross posting works:

Post from WordPress goes to email subscriber (DreamWidth's special email posting address) > Posts to DreamWidth (account is set-up to automatically cross post to my livejournal) > WordPress post appears on Livejournal.

There are a few kinks to work out such as the post formatting, but I'm sure in time I'll figure out how to make the posts less cluttered with all that category junk WordPress adds to it's email subscriptions.

 

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So Livejournal has a new user agreement. After 12 years regularly using this service I feel it's time to move on. There's no way in hell I want to conform to "the Civil Code of the Russian Federation."

No, I'm not a Russia hater. I have nothing against the Russian people, it's their government I have an issue with--most notably Putin. I could go into depth about all the ways I feel the updated user agreement will censor our speech, but why bother?

My only question about this, is what service will replace Livejournal? I've tried other blogging platforms and they're just not the same. I've heard of Dreamwidth, but the site looks AWFUL and who knows how long the site will be operational. I'll keep searching.

I'm not leaving Livejournal, I'm just undecided about where to host my professional blog. I already have a blogger and it gets the job done, but it's pretty isolating. Tumblr offers a community of users, while the Weebly blog offers seamless website integration. WordPress is known for it's professional content, but considering I don't what to go through the trouble of hosting my blog and associated issues I'm going to eliminate it as an option right now. I think I'm also going to eliminate the Weebly blog. Eh. I don't know...it's just doesn't have the advance out-of-the-box capabilities in terms of features and look that Tumblr and Blogger have.

Hmmm...

Perhaps I should keep blogger as my main blog and dump my blogger posts to Tumblr. Now I just have to figure that one out...

It would seem most lj users have grown-up and left the lengthy question memes behind, but darn it I miss them! I want to do one so badly! 

Bleh.

Just as well. I need to complete my project for my 3D design class.