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[karanguni]

Updating from work because I forgot my phone, somehow. I don't know how that happens.

Things:

• Seriously thinking about coding a DW/Tumblr crossover with non-rebloggable posts that can go in and out of threaded comments/chat, with activity (posts + comments) being the lifeblood of a stream. Like, seriously thinking about it. ? ??? ? I am just so frustrated with this no-inbetween-land and tumblr in general


• Going through Visions of Infinity. Maths writing, even when doing okayish, is... a bad read. Going to keep chugging. Might end up writing maths into yuletide this year (?!)


• Because pendency, I now need to write drow fic. Like. Zak/Jarlaxle drowfic. Badwrong drowfic. It's like I'm 14 again, except equipped with more cynicism.

Whaddup with you guys?

Comments

[sarasa_cat]

Tumblr / DW cross over: have you seen imzy? Thoughts on its design?

[karanguni]

Investigating now! Do you have an invite, perchance?

[yhlee]

If they don't, I have invites--email me at yoon at yoonhalee dot com. (I need to give Imzy an email so they can email you the signup, I think is how it works.)

[karanguni]

Sent! Danke!

[karanguni]

Okay, on it now.

- too much white space
- post format a lot like tumblr
- lacks proper comment threading
- lacks personal space
- feed format leaves things to be desired: over-large "congrats you've reached x users" posts, useless "this community is neighbours with that community" posts
- notification feed and emails are completely useless at the moment

+ FINALLY COMMUNITIES ARE A THING AGAIN
+ uses markdown, which I think is the middle ground twixt markup and rich text
+ multiple unlinked psueds is good
+ while I'm not a huge fan of a facebook-style feed, this is the first kinda combo that looks even vaguely fandom-friendly: real-time convos are becoming a vague possibility?
+ built-in messenger
+ built-in polling

Judgement is still out. If fandom uses it enough to get feedback listened to and if personal spaces show up and suck less, I think it has potential just out of the sheer frustration people are feeling at tumblr and old fogies like me wanting comms back?

A thought: there is one thing about tumblr that I like that platforms like these will miss, which is re-broadcasting, but I still have thoughts percolating on that.

Are you on any comms over there?