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I did some long-overdue gardening on my DW circles today. I tend to put it off for months and months because I imprinted on just how soul-destroying it was to do it in LJ, and then I finally get around to it in DW and it is so easy it is like floating through a field of dandelions. <3
So anyway I basically just went down the circle list of people who have subscribed/accessed me since the last time I did this, and subscribed/accessed some of them - quite a lot, actually, I hope I didn't become giddy with how easy it was, and regret this later! If I didn't add you back, please don't feel bad about it - I seriously can't keep up with all of it these days, and yes, this does make me feel weirdly BNF-y. O_o (also weirdly BNF-y: going down the list of people who have subscribed to me and finding multiple names where my knee-jerk reaction is "But I can't subscribe to them, they're too popular! they'll never notice me!" I must be faking it pretty good lately or something. Or else I've just been hanging around these parts too long.)
I added people based on a quick skim of your recent entries and a complicated set of algorithms and momentary impulses (the most quantifiable of which are a) you have made at least one post I can see in the past month and b) I have some sort of vague memory of having interacted with you at some point.) If I have confused you greatly by doing so, I apologize, I promise you I confused myself as well in the process.
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Next step in the "cleaning up DW" categories are a) clear out the comment notifications in my inbox and b) fix my severely broken layout already! The issue with a) is ANSWERING COMMENTS IS HARD. The issue with b) is that the one thing I want in a layout is the ability to make the "custom colors" be a large block that extends the entire vertical length of every entry on my reading page; this does not appear to be something that CSS is willing to do, so every time I've tried to fix it, I have ended up retreating back to my current broken style that does that one thing that makes reading so much easier for me. But maybe in the past six months someone has made a DW style that does it for me! And maybe DW has made it less painful than LJ to preview styles in a way that shows the friendspage! Into the breach.
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In other news: I got a Diaspora account. I was avoiding all the G+ stuff up on my ivory tower; at the time I was thinking smugly to myself that I am uninterested in being a beta tester, but then I thought about DW. and LT. and AO3. And, heck, all the way back to Keenspot. And realized it was more that I'm not interested in doing free beta testing work for a large corporation that could buy my entire town if they wanted to. So I am on Diaspora; I will probably not do much with it; I mostly got it so that I have somewhere to point people who cannot comprehend the fact that I am entirely ignorant of Facebook and like it that way, and may get a professional-face account there at some point if I decide I can stand it.
A discussion on LT has recently made me conceptualize better why I have been so uninterested in Facebook and Myspace and the like: those sort of social networks seem to be mostly about maintaining relationships that primarily exist in other spheres. Whereas on the kind of social networks I'm interested in - like DW - the relationships are performed on the service itself. And I like making new friends and acquaintances and socializing with strangers, too. But I also prefer keeping my relationships uncomplicated enough that I don't need a computer program in order to maintain them. Maybe I am missing out on great opportunities for joy, and being a bad friend to my existing people, by thinking this way. On the other hand, I have known for quite some time that I am much more the sort of person who spends three hours every morning working on my correspondence than the sort of person who goes around in a carriage every Wednesday dropping off calling cards, so I think I'll live.
Anyway. Diaspora account. I am melannen there too. I hope that link actually goes to my "homepage" there; I believe I mentioned that I am completely ignorant of all facebook-like things, and I have not learned my way around Diaspora and its purposes yet. Also I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't let me upload an avatar.
So anyway I basically just went down the circle list of people who have subscribed/accessed me since the last time I did this, and subscribed/accessed some of them - quite a lot, actually, I hope I didn't become giddy with how easy it was, and regret this later! If I didn't add you back, please don't feel bad about it - I seriously can't keep up with all of it these days, and yes, this does make me feel weirdly BNF-y. O_o (also weirdly BNF-y: going down the list of people who have subscribed to me and finding multiple names where my knee-jerk reaction is "But I can't subscribe to them, they're too popular! they'll never notice me!" I must be faking it pretty good lately or something. Or else I've just been hanging around these parts too long.)
I added people based on a quick skim of your recent entries and a complicated set of algorithms and momentary impulses (the most quantifiable of which are a) you have made at least one post I can see in the past month and b) I have some sort of vague memory of having interacted with you at some point.) If I have confused you greatly by doing so, I apologize, I promise you I confused myself as well in the process.
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Next step in the "cleaning up DW" categories are a) clear out the comment notifications in my inbox and b) fix my severely broken layout already! The issue with a) is ANSWERING COMMENTS IS HARD. The issue with b) is that the one thing I want in a layout is the ability to make the "custom colors" be a large block that extends the entire vertical length of every entry on my reading page; this does not appear to be something that CSS is willing to do, so every time I've tried to fix it, I have ended up retreating back to my current broken style that does that one thing that makes reading so much easier for me. But maybe in the past six months someone has made a DW style that does it for me! And maybe DW has made it less painful than LJ to preview styles in a way that shows the friendspage! Into the breach.
***
In other news: I got a Diaspora account. I was avoiding all the G+ stuff up on my ivory tower; at the time I was thinking smugly to myself that I am uninterested in being a beta tester, but then I thought about DW. and LT. and AO3. And, heck, all the way back to Keenspot. And realized it was more that I'm not interested in doing free beta testing work for a large corporation that could buy my entire town if they wanted to. So I am on Diaspora; I will probably not do much with it; I mostly got it so that I have somewhere to point people who cannot comprehend the fact that I am entirely ignorant of Facebook and like it that way, and may get a professional-face account there at some point if I decide I can stand it.
A discussion on LT has recently made me conceptualize better why I have been so uninterested in Facebook and Myspace and the like: those sort of social networks seem to be mostly about maintaining relationships that primarily exist in other spheres. Whereas on the kind of social networks I'm interested in - like DW - the relationships are performed on the service itself. And I like making new friends and acquaintances and socializing with strangers, too. But I also prefer keeping my relationships uncomplicated enough that I don't need a computer program in order to maintain them. Maybe I am missing out on great opportunities for joy, and being a bad friend to my existing people, by thinking this way. On the other hand, I have known for quite some time that I am much more the sort of person who spends three hours every morning working on my correspondence than the sort of person who goes around in a carriage every Wednesday dropping off calling cards, so I think I'll live.
Anyway. Diaspora account. I am melannen there too. I hope that link actually goes to my "homepage" there; I believe I mentioned that I am completely ignorant of all facebook-like things, and I have not learned my way around Diaspora and its purposes yet. Also I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't let me upload an avatar.