[ where do we go from here ]

[winterlive]

my own cee has said a thing about the exodus which i think you should read. it's about where those of us who are leaving should go, what we should be trying for.

fandom_flies is trying to work up something new, something from scratch. same with scribblit. and i think those are admirable aims, like, i think that's fair, but they've talked to each other and instead of deciding to pool their lumber and their workers and their time to build a big ark, they have decided to diverge. go their own ways. that's not what fandom needs.

the american statesman and orator henry clay once said: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance...The Union, sir, is my country.

i feel the same way about fandom. the ideal is the same: harry potter fen and star wars fen, artists and vidders and writers, friends and total strangers - we all have one thing in common, and that's that we are all us. of course, we have our insane cousins and crazy uncles and cat lady aunts that we'd lock in the attic and feed fish heads to if we were worse people, but every family does. if there's one thing i don't want, it's to lose the notion that there are dozens of people out there that i just haven't found myself in the same fandom as yet, that there's so many awesome people that will come through my flist soon. you guys, warts and all, are my community. i care about you; no matter how ridiculous you sometimes get, no matter if we fight on the issues of the day, i would miss you if you were gone.

so when we go somewhere, i want to go together.

cee makes a few excellent points about journalfen as a potential place to go. what do you guys think? do you think it's better to start from scratch, or what? wherever we go, i want you with me.

*holds ur hands*

Comments

[brynwulf]

I've been advocating for JF forEVER it seems like and getting nothing but blank stares and complaints about it's robustness. May I quote from a conversation I had with Robin yesterday?

we're in a pretty damn good position to take on some significant loads. We're already pretty consistently taking on much more traffic than we ever have in the past. We're getting so much traffic in fact, that traditional web stat processing software can't properly analyze our logs-- they're too fricking big! So we're going to have to buy alternate stat software soon, too. I know we're getting at least 40,000 unique visitors and serving up 3-4 million pages per day.

I'm kinda proud of us.

She went on to say that, yes, they still need to do alot of work, but it looks like it's planned for the next few weeks, so YES, there really is no reason.

As for the age thing, I really don't know for sure, but it seems I heard mention that they might be rethinking that. But please don't quote me. I truly want to see all my flist huddled with me on this, but I'll be at JF, regardless. I truly don't understand this wish to reinvent the wheel! *hands*

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

i think that some kind of indication that they were interested in us - maybe a little fandom retrospective write-up of the pros and cons and history of journalfen - might be very much something that should happen on lj right now. i honestly had no idea what journalfen was all about until cee filled me in, and i imagine a lot of people are in my boat.

[brynwulf]

I'll pass it on.