easy to please -- difficult to impress

I wonder if, now that fandom has been displaced from LJ for so long, it would be helpful if DW updated its layouts and general aesthetic? It's great that they're working on improving image storage (which I think will be necessary for enticing fandom to migrate this way). It just strikes me that although being an LJ clone was useful back in the late 00s, there's a significant cohort of active fans for whom this platform is going to seem quaint and retro. Hell, it gives me lots of warm and fuzzy nostalgia, but I have to admit that I'm also struggling a little to get used to it again. I don't know nothin' about adapting codebases; I just question how DW can be more attractive for all the fans who don't have any memory of LJ.

I'm also so sad that I deleted my primary fandom LJ all those years ago. I have a little bit of fandom content from my personal LJ that I might also move over here eventually (mostly episode reactions from the final season of AtLA), but all of my House MD content is gone. All of my STXI stuff. My icons. (MY ICONS!!!!!) (See, like right here I would love to be able to put in emojis.) I had so many Sokka/Toph icons I made. They're definitely not on any computers or hard drives that I have any more. 

It was genuinely strange to have my dashboard on Tumblr be so quiet today. I wasn't anticipating so many people to participate in the boycott. There seems to be much more emotional investment in the platform than I remember from during LJ's nonsense, but maybe I'm just being forgetful. (I'll never ever be over that one post about Tumblr being part of the "Old Internet" that was "really exemplified by geocities" and then compared the new terms of service to gentrification.)

Off to perhaps work on my profile for a little bit--I have no memory of what used to go in there. (But DW doesn't have to be just like LJ! Fandom has grown and changed since those days!)