30 August 2006 @ 11:17 am
Beyond LiveJournal: Vox & GreatestJournal  
I've ventured into the great wilds beyond LJ -- specifically, Vox and GreatestJournal. I am "hsapiens" in both places. :)

Does anyone actually use these services? What do you use them for? Is there something they do better than LJ that I don't know about? I haven't explored nor have I spent a lot of time setting anything up; just keeping up with LJ is difficult.

If anyone else is also at these sites, feel free to add me to your f-list/neighborhood/whatever they're called. I admit, I got the Greatest Journal because they offer 2,000 icon spots. It's such freedom after the miserly 104 I have here at LJ. (I am such an icon slut.) Too bad I can't use it to post to my LJ.
 
 
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[identity profile] mcroft.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 04:25 pm (UTC)
Vox: yup, added you to my neighborhood. I have a few spare invites, if anyone is dying to join.
Mish: Nox-Ville -- Not in Kansas Anymore[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 06:39 pm (UTC)
:) I've added you back. Not that I post anything there. I have a couple of invites, too. I've seen so many people offering on my f-list I sort of figure most everyone who wants to join, has.
[identity profile] tubin.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 04:31 pm (UTC)
It would be cool if it was possible to have a central utility that would post to whichever journal you wanted to post to. Sort of like Gaim lets you use whatever IM service you want to use. Then you could open up your journal program, type your entry, click on the one or more places you'd like the post to appear and voila!

Would also be good for people who maintain multiple LJ accounts - for example, if they keep an account for a game or project, another for personal stuff, and so on.
Mish: Nox-Ville -- Not in Kansas Anymore[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 07:11 pm (UTC)
Oh yes! I was going to say something about eventually they'd make a program that allows you to amalgamate your journals and manage them from one interface, as Trillian and meebo.com do for IM programs. I hadn't heard of Gaim.

And YES! I'd love a way to have multiple LJ accounts and interact with them from one interface. I would love to separate my fannish stuff from my real life stuff but I can't be bothered to log out and back in so I inflict the fandom stuff on friends and the boring "look! I have a navel and lo, I shall gaze upon it" stuff on the fan-friends. I'd love to have a "family" LJ so I could keep the family updated but away from the parts of my life I want them excluded from. It will happen at some point, I'm sure, and so long as it works I expect it'll be very popular. I would post more often if I were better able to target my posts.

I'm glad for the ability to post in my various communities from one interface, but it's always the same identity.
Ginger[personal profile] gentlyepigrams on August 30th, 2006 05:46 pm (UTC)
immlass on both. Don't use either much, though.
Mish: Nox-Ville -- Not in Kansas Anymore[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 07:12 pm (UTC)
LOL! I don't think anyone does. Or, at least, LJ seems to be much more active.
ext_2780[identity profile] aizjanika.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 06:38 pm (UTC)
I have a Vox account: me on Vox. I'm not really doing anything with it.

What about GreatestJournal? Do you like that? I've never even heard of it.

It's such freedom after the miserly 104 I have here at LJ. (I am such an icon slut.) Too bad I can't use it to post to my LJ.

Hee! 2000 icons! Yay! I really only post and read LJ, though.

Mish: Nox-Ville -- Not in Kansas Anymore[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 07:16 pm (UTC)
:) I've added you to friends on Vox. As best I can tell, we seem to have the accounts but no good idea what to do with them that we can't already do here. Although I can see there are more media tie-ins; I haven't done anything with it yet.

2K icons is absolutely why I joined. As best I can tell, it's built on LJ or they share the same duality. It feels like the Firefox/Netscape deal. I only read an dpost in LJ, too. I feel a little foolish having a plethora of journals but I'm thinking next time LJ goes down, I won't go into complete withdrawal.
ext_2780[identity profile] aizjanika.livejournal.com on August 30th, 2006 09:01 pm (UTC)
Vox doesn't seem to have the same networking that LJ does, of if it does, it's not as readily apparent to me. You can't reply to comments, so that makes it seem more impersonal. I also think you don't get email notification of comments, right? I've never received one, anyway. That makes it not at all useful because I'll never remember to go back and check posts for comments. *g*

I'm going to check out Greatest Journal, though. :-) I don't know if I know of anyone who has that.

I like having the different journals mainly because I'm curious about how they all work, how to set them up, etc. :-)

The only other "journal" that I use is LastFM/AudioScrobbler. I mostly use it because I love to see my own stats--what music I'm listening to the most. As far as the journal part goes, though, it's not that useful because you don't really have a flist like on LJ. If I did, I'd probably read other journals more often. :-)