Squidge/LiveJournal discussion - outcomes

[squidgestatus]

Last week, Squidge hosted a chat on possibly entering into the LJ business from a Squidge based reality (which means one of our own runs it, no TOS'ing, and safe). We came up with some ideas on what we wanted out of it, for at least a "phase 1". Those things are:

A one-stop Myspace like page/directory of fanfiction authors and artists
Default system likes (fandoms you work in, etc)
Default system tags plus user-defined tags, ie. "Scrubs Slash" would be a system tag and "JD finally gives in and makes out with The Todd" user-defined tag.
A way to link to your work homepage, stories, etc
A place to blog if you want to as part of your homepage
Internal search engine for tags and for profiles and blogs

You can read the chat log itself. It's listed at this URL: http://www.squidge.org/squidge/irc_ljchat.log

Comments

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

Walter, if you are doing it, it will be great! What about existing blogs? And websites, will we be able to incorporate all that?

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

This is the first really appealing alternative to LJ that I've heard of. Go squidge go!

[boji.livejournal.com]

This sounds wonderful!

In the meantime, can I ask about pricing for a webpage? The recent LJ mess has made me reconsider only housing my fic on a blog and well, as a lurker in fandom for a decade I can't think of a home I'd rather have than one on squidge.

Have looked on the main page for hosting prices etc. but must be dense as to where that link is.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble getting my IRC connection to stay on lately. Has something changed and I missed it? irc.squidge.org::6667, yeah? [pouts at Trillian]

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

While irc.squidge.org works for me, if it doesn't for you, there are alternate servers - www.squidge.org and duchovniks.squidge.org. :) Same port number.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Whatever's been wrong (for weeks!) is apparently fixed now, but I'll keep this in mind in case I need it in the future.

[marenpaisley.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering about what happened to the Better Living Through Trek Stories archive. I've found that clicking on the link simply redirects me to the main Squide.org page. Thanks for your time. :)

[leetal.livejournal.com]

Bless you. Again. :)