Hi! I discovered your post through veni_vidi_vids and I really appreciated reading it. It makes a lot of sense to me, and is alike some of my recent (or so not recent) thinking about where fandom goes.
I started vidding almost 3 years ago, but been checking vids for like 7 years, and I'm kind of mourning the loss of personal sites. Not that much for fanfic, but I confess I don't have much time for fic reading.
I'm a huge anti-youtube for various reasons. First, I'm a vid DL girl, I like storing them on my computer and have time to properly (re)watch them. Youtube is kind of crappy about quality/ratio most of time, and it also kills my browser on a regular basis though I'm not on dial-up. And browsing only a youtube page is something I find quite bleh. (As for vid theft, I'd better not start on it I think).
I'm a huge LJ girl personnally. But I use it in parallel as my site, as a kind of announcement place (for the open posts). But I always take time to tag everything perfectly, with the tags showing on the main page, so that people don't take hours to browse them. When it's done this way I like LJ. It's easy to have updates and to leave feedback. But a personal site is still something more than useful and that I enjoy pretty much to browse. And it means DL links!
The temporary links are quite boring as well, especially when there are a few free sites that allow enough room to store loads of stuff there, on a permanent basis and that you can link either to a little personal site, or to a LJ well sorted out (like 4shared for exemple).
I guess I'm not such an old vidder, but an old fashion one for sure! And I'm afraid I just posted a novel on your LJ! Hum... *waves* Nice to meet you! =)
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I started vidding almost 3 years ago, but been checking vids for like 7 years, and I'm kind of mourning the loss of personal sites. Not that much for fanfic, but I confess I don't have much time for fic reading.
I'm a huge anti-youtube for various reasons. First, I'm a vid DL girl, I like storing them on my computer and have time to properly (re)watch them. Youtube is kind of crappy about quality/ratio most of time, and it also kills my browser on a regular basis though I'm not on dial-up. And browsing only a youtube page is something I find quite bleh. (As for vid theft, I'd better not start on it I think).
I'm a huge LJ girl personnally. But I use it in parallel as my site, as a kind of announcement place (for the open posts). But I always take time to tag everything perfectly, with the tags showing on the main page, so that people don't take hours to browse them. When it's done this way I like LJ. It's easy to have updates and to leave feedback. But a personal site is still something more than useful and that I enjoy pretty much to browse. And it means DL links!
The temporary links are quite boring as well, especially when there are a few free sites that allow enough room to store loads of stuff there, on a permanent basis and that you can link either to a little personal site, or to a LJ well sorted out (like 4shared for exemple).
I guess I'm not such an old vidder, but an old fashion one for sure! And I'm afraid I just posted a novel on your LJ! Hum... *waves* Nice to meet you! =)