Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

It's the 11th anniversary of my LJ! And since I'm lucky enough that a) I still have my old Vista laptop with me, b) it still works so I could copy the LJ Comment Stats Wizard onto my current laptop, and c) the wizard still works on this laptop, that means...

It's once again time for LJ/DW comment stats! :)

Like last year, I manually edited the comment stats to include DW comments that are not also on LJ, even moving those of you who've commented a lot on my DW further up in the rankings or adding you to it if you weren't in the rankings otherwise. :)

My comment count is a fraction (and, by extension, so is the grand total) because I couldn't decide if this LJ comment and this DW comment should count as one or two comments (since all the other times when I manually posted the same comment on both the LJ and DW versions of an entry around the same time, I counted each LJ/DW comment pair as only one comment, but these two aren't exactly the same...), so I made this pair count as 1½ comments.

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal (and matt1993's DreamWidth
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993/matt1993	3350½
2	pathvain_aelien	1726
3	glowing_dragon/glowing_dragon	785
4	rovanda	185
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	113
7	awehla	100
8	penelopexxx	96
9	cactus_rs/cactus_rs	86
10	padabutterfly	71

( 11-159 )
Total Commenters: 159
Total Comments: 7659½
Report generated 8/19/2018 12:58:20 AM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7 and then manually edited to include comments that are on DW only and the users who would otherwise not be shown

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(music tag should be: "Kid Icarus: Uprising soundtrack - The War's End (if you see scary/apocalyptic video game music in the music tag, that usually means I'm worried about something. But sometimes it doesn't.)")

Apparently I just posted one of the most popular entries on LJ. Which I guess is pretty easy to do if I'm one of the only people still posting to LJ at all...

So, hi new people! Sorry for all the inside jokes that would've made much more sense^{[citation needed]} if you'd been here 7 or 8 years ago. Before you go asking me what "HWHD" or "WTCN" or whatever means, visit my FAQ and glossary of Matt1993isms (taking into account that the former is fairly up-to-date but the latter was last updated in 2011).

Anyway, onto the important stuff:

I THINK I read all of your comments. I know why people are moving to DreamWidth (well, NOW I know, but until now I'd heard a lot of seemingly different reasons and wasn't sure which, if any, were accurate), and I agree that it would be a good idea for me to create a backup journal on DreamWidth (or maybe another site) because who knows how long LJ will be around and how long anyone else will be on LJ at the rate things are going.

But at the same time, LiveJournal has been one of my favorite hobbies, if not my #1 favorite hobby, for over a third of my life (I'm 23, turning 24 in July, and have been active since February 2009 when I was 15½). So I am NOT going to leave LJ entirely. There is no way I can - it's just too much of a part of who I am, and I really hope that one day it goes back to the way it was.

I've finally decided that my plan is to have a LiveJournal AND a DreamWidth (or a LiveJournal AND an account on some other journal site). In fact, I would start creating my backup account RIGHT NOW if it weren't for the fact that I need to decide what site to backup my LJ to.

I'm going to need a site that has most, if not all, of the features that I use on LiveJournal - I want to make my DreamWidth (or whatever) similar enough to my LJ that it will be REALLY easy for me to adjust to using both.

This means I want to find a site with:
- A way to make TWO accounts. I've been wanting to make a separate journal on LJ for dreams for a long time - now that THIS just happened, when I finally get around to making a LJ dream journal, I'd want to have a backup of that on DreamWidth or whatever as well.
- The ability to use at least 116 userpics, because that's how many "regular" userpics I have right now. (I'd VERY strongly prefer the limit be significantly more than 116, though.)
- A way to make a profile and interests list similar to what LJ has.
- A friends page.
- A way to automatically backup my old entries and the comments on them to the new journal - with the mood, music, location, repost buttons, images, videos, tags, timestamps, friends-only status, custom friends groups, and probably something else I forgot intact. (A lot of you said DreamWidth lets you import entries and comments with most of these intact.) Or, at the very least, I need it to be possible to manually add whichever of these things would not automatically be transferred. (cactus_rs, you said that I'd lose images and videos - you don't mean that images and videos can't be used at all in entries on DW, do you? :( Though I guess I could just have the videos be replaced with the URLs for them if I have to...)
- A way to upload images similar to ScrapBook - and with them having the same privacy settings as entries.
- A way to have comments be screened.
- A way to make the journal style similar to the one I'm using here. By this I just mean I don't want it to be TOO drastically different - I think any yellow layout would work. And this only applies to my journal - other pages on whatever site I backup my LJ to don't have to look anything like LJ in terms of design as long as the features I need are there.
- Probably something else I forgot. I'll edit this entry if I remember anything else.

How many of these features does DreamWidth have? Does another site have more of these features? Am I making any sense whatsoever? (I've been misunderstood a lot before. I REALLY hope that doesn't happen here...)