Signs of Life

[lolmac]

 I posted at length on the LJ side, so I'll be brief here:

Yes, I'm still alive.  It's been a rough 15 months.

I've imported the comm from LJ and am doing as much as I can to find and invite past members, especially Mod Squad members, so we can get up and running again.  Please signal-boost at will!

Comments

[lolmac]

Yay! Yes, I had it in mind to get that link in, but I wore myself out trying to get all the cuts to work. Useful tip: you can't put a link to an LJ username inside a cut. I'll get the Ao3 link in when I can. Many thanks!

I did turn off the comments on purpose. I need to revamp the Ask-a-Mod post from the old comm, so that can be used as a feedback point.

I just did a new post with some progress notes and an invitation for folks to check in.

Thank you for the lovely banner and pimpage and all!!

[thisbluespirit]

Useful tip: you can't put a link to an LJ username inside a cut.

That's weird - I often have! Ha, but technology, when is it ever fully co-operative?

I have made the first pimping post at fandomcalendar, a really useful fandom hub on Dreamwidth. It's here - I adapted your intro from the FAQ (just a bit tweaked for Other Comm purposes), so I hope it is okay: https://fandomcalendar.dreamwidth.org/442167.html

Over the coming days (to stagger it a little), I will also try dw_community_promo and fandom_on_dw. I can't think of anywhere else off the top of my head, although there are some writing comms like onedeadplotbunny and ?getyourwordsout? that might be natural allies/affiliates, even if not places we can pimp outright.

[lolmac]

It may make a difference when the post has half a dozen cuts, or when you have two LJ links inside tow different cuts. Whatever. My attempts to link to seriesfive and studyofrunning (who didn't immigrate) broke the code, and I finally had to give up and do a workaround.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah. SeriesFive doesn't exist under that name any more, on either side, which probably didn't help. (I think she became allkindsoffur, but I'd have to check. She's not around any more, though, sadly.)

ETA: Yes, she did.

I've also made a rebloggable tumblr post for those who operate on the dark side of fandom: http://lost-spook.tumblr.com/post/171419999589/ficrush-the-two-day-ficathon-is-back-now-on

(Now I shall go have dinner and leave you to it!)

[thisbluespirit]

I put the code into the comment so you could c+p the code for the banner + the text box to put into a post on the comm, so members could use it to put into their own comms and journals. Did you not want to do that, or is there some problem? Would you like me to make the post here for you, if I have permission?

[lolmac]

So sorry, I had no idea I was expected to do something with the code! Do please make a post for sharing it. You should have full posting privileges on both comms.

[thisbluespirit]

Don't worry, there was lots going on! I shall make a post presently, then, and then it will be easily accessible to everyone to pimp. :-)

I thought you must have missed that bit, as it wasn't like you not to use it or to say anything, that's why I asked again!

(You may just want to tag it for future reference, as I suspect that I won't have the ability to do.)