What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

This is the fourth year we've done Festivids. The first year, it was based entirely on LJ. Starting with FV 2010, we began crossposting the vids to Dreamwidth.

If you look at the comments on the vids, you can see the migration to Dreamwidth. In FV 2010, for any given vid, there tended to be more comments on the LJ side than on the Dreamwidth side; not always, not for every vid, but for the majority, and sometimes the disparities were quite stark. In FV 2011, it could go either way - some vids had more comments on Dreamwidth, some more on LJ. But this year? There is far, far more comment activity on the Dreamwidth side - it's not even close.

The Oscar nominations reminded me I think I meant to post about this movie.

I ... don't think I saw the same movie that everyone else saw.

( Spoilers )

Random unrelated fandom-community observation - it seems to me from watching Festivids commentary that there's a lot more activity on the Dreamwidth side of things than we had last year or that I would have expected. Rec lists tend to link to Dreamwidth; comments at Dreamwidth match or exceed the LJ comments at least for a lot of vids. It seems like a striking shift, although I'm not sure if I'm imagining it.

Something's horribly wrong with LJ for me and it somehow seems to be tied to my journal style, but I'm not allowed to change anything or comment. And I can't post or read my FList.

Sigh.

And, joy, I can't even submit a support request.

Turns out I can't do anything - it won't read anything I type in a box, so when I tried logging out, I can't log back in.

Oh LJ, please fix this soon.

I was bracing for the great comment-style holocaust but it turns out I've apparently been using S2 all along, or something, because everything looks exactly the same to me (I view everything in my own style).

Although honestly, I wish they'd spend a little less time removing popular comment features and a little more time restoring my comment notifications, which have been verkakte since the latest DDOS attack.

are now live. And LJ is going down in a half hour.

Stupid LJ.

I was finally able to post yesterday, and then last night, I lost my posting capability again ... and now this morning suddenly I can't read my FList.

I guess I should be happy because this means they're working on it?

Oh, poor SPN BigBang authors ... you must be dying.

Edit: Apparently it's a DDOS attack; see comments.

*sobs wildly*

Apparently when IP logging is on, there will also be a display of the commenter's city, and this will happen on old comments as well as new ones going forward.

1. I am not going to criticize LJ for being the victim of attacks - esp. since the latest rumors are that the attacks are coming from the Russian government as a way of silencing dissidents. I will, however, loudly criticize LJ for still not fixing the goddamn comment notification problem.

So, Dreamwidth just sent me a new invite code, and I offer it to whoever grabs it first: 8VTX6BBJN3VF4AAAM888

2. Obviously, now is a good time to worry about whether my LJ content is stable. I've been manually reposting my old vid posts here at Dreamwidth, so at least those will be accessible to people when LJ is down, but that won't save the old comments. I'd love to import the posts automatically, but I only want to import older posts (i.e., before I started cross posting), or even just posts with particular tags ("my vids"). As I understand it, however, you can only import all the posts - and that would wreak havoc with my Dreamwidth journal. So, manual it is, then.

3. I am absolutely overwhelmed with work, so of course I'm flooded with vid bunnies - Fringe! Steve/Danny slash! Two different White Collar ideas! And an awesome Nikita bunny that someone passed along! Sigh. Funny how that happens.

4. Yesterday I was at work and I saw a mailing label that said "New York Ofc," and for a moment I wondered why anyone wanted to send a letter to an Original Female Character.

5. Step 1 - eliminate Medicare, reduce taxes on the rich, raise taxes on everyone else. Step 2 - ???. Step 3 - Profit!

But just in case, have some Dreamwidth invite codes:

W85GFQXYVHK4WAAAKNAR

RPA6GS37SE323AAAKNAS

C3SMH3YMD2QA9AAAKNAT

7VFA3W7YEZ6K8AAAKNAU

ZPNJKNBNFVERQAAAKNAW