Tag: pinboard

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nevermindirah:

Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also

Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later

here we go again dot com, fellow Fandom Olds who lived through the ff.net mass deletion

here’s the funny thing for me personally. I am not a Fandom Old, but I am an Internet Old. I started blogging when they were still arguing about whether that was a word we even wanted to use for it. I saw someone recommend Typepad today and had fucking flashbacks, because I remember people migrating away from Typepad in the middle 2000s. (why, I don’t entirely remember. I migrated off of the self-hosted version for my blog on my website when they started charging for that code)

and just, as a person who’s been blogging and whatever, I’ve had a Blogger blog, I think I did briefly have a Typepad, I had a LiveJournal, I had a Vox blog and if you are one of the 15 people who remember Vox (not the news site, the blogging service) then let us pour one out together. (that was my favorite honestly, and it lasted about 20 minutes)

I’ve also had a Flickr, a Delicious account, I used Foursquare. (wow Yahoo likes to Kill Some Stuff) I remember Twitter before the celebs and the Nazis.

I’m still mourning the demise of Google Reader. (Google, alternatively, likes to build some stuff, half-ass a lot of it, and then kill its own children)

Few things seem to be built to last or for the good of the people who use them. If you find one of those, cherish it.

(my short list: Pinboard, AO3, Metafilter, Ravelry. Dreamwidth seems to have its heart in the right place, but WOW it still looks like mid-2000s LJ.)

*SOBS* I miss Google Reader so fucking much holy shit. It was basically like having a tumblr dash you couldn’t reblog from, of all your blogs from all over the internet. I lost track of a lot of good blogs and webcomics when I lost Google Reader.

Another pinboard advocate here – if you were lucky enough to get a seed account, your small payment gave you one for life. Now it’s $11 a year, for no ads, no bullshit, just a simple, no frills, independently run site that allows you to curate the shit out of whatever links you like. Tagging is easy. If you want to see what it looks like, here’s my very out of date reclist – https://pinboard.in/u:iamshadow/

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Ah, well it’s nice to know someone besides me and my other half is reading my rec roundups. Yay for sharing the fic love!

You do rec round-ups? Why didn’t I know this? I LOVE READING RECS. It gets me reading new things, or trying fics I might have skipped past.

Yeah, they’re over on my DW/LJ accounts, because it is too damn easy to lose things over here. I do one every week or two, whenever I think I’ve got enough. It started as a way for me to send recs to my partner without constantly emailing her. They’re not sorted at all, they’re just dumped in chronologically in the order I read them.

I have a big, much older Avengers rec post here, sorted by author, but I haven’t updated it in ages. About half of the recs on that list are on my Pinboard, properly tagged, etc. The plan was to have them all up there, but life got in the way.

I love your recs too! I find a lot of fic that way.

I may now be stalking your Pinboard and DW…

😀

I know all about having great plans to Pinboard all the recs, and then having life get in the way. I keep meaning to put all my recs on mine, but so far, it’s not happened. Ugh. Why aren’t there thirty six hours in every day?

Benevolent stalking welcome! I just hope that aside from recs, you like hearing about knitting, fic writing, lack of money, my garden, and autism. I think the top actually post right now is pretty much just talking about the cold.

I may have kept up with my pinboard more if I didn’t also have responsibilities archiving fic recs for 221b_recs. I haven’t read much Sherlock Holmes in the last couple of years, but I’m the comm’s Pinboard (formerly Delicious) archivist. I need to wade in there and do some more – at the moment, I seem to manage to get it up there every two months or so, but I’m hampered by the shitty internet out here.