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Hello one more time, Polychromatic!

Voting on our gamewide poll is closed.

The majority of votes were in favor of moving Polychromatic to Dreamwidth.

Therefore, Polychromatic will be moving from Livejournal to Dreamwidth.

And the mods agree that, given Livejournal's recent difficulties and potential future changes, this will be the best course of action for the game.

The move will be taking place on Sunday, January 15. On that day, posting will officially move from LJ to DW.

Furthermore, we are waiving activity requirements for January because of this move.

However, because this is such a change, we have decided to revisit a topic of discussion--namely, should Polychromatic operate in a community-based or a journal-based posting format?

There are pros and cons to each format--journal-based posting allows one to keep one's own content even after leaving a game, but community-based posting eliminates the need for an add/remove list, &c. Please give both sides due consideration and vote in the following poll. We would like you to decide as regards this change. The majority will rule in this poll as in the other.

This poll is open until Friday, January 13th.

[Poll #1809839]

As before, while we would prefer you to use this poll, you may also contact us by email (polychromatic.mods@gmail.com) with your response if LJ is giving you difficulties of any sort.

A few more things:

→ Please join [poly_chromatic], [tampered], [poly_tldr], and [thatrainbowcity] with your character journal(s). These will be our main communities on DW. (Alas, the name "polychromatic" was already taken by a personal journal! How can this be? Also! if the mods of

poly_crack would like to set up a crack comm for Poly on DW, please do. That's all up to you, but spread the word if you create one!)

→ This poll is still on-going, but you may go ahead and post in your DW journal if you would like, but please be aware that some players may only be checking LJ. We certainly encourage crossposting from DW to LJ for the time being. We know the game is kind of on hold while the move is going on. We are working on importing our communities and getting everything set up as we'd like. Moving is something of a gradual process, but we would like to have at least the basics completed by the 15th.

→ We recommend that everyone use poly_chromatic's members list for the time being to keep up with any character posts that may be made on DW. Once this poll closes, we will either rebuild the add/remove list or open poly_chromatic for posting with character journals (and we will be using [thatrainbowcity] for mod posts and announcements). Please be aware that if the game stays journal-based, it may take a day or two for us to rebuild the add/remove list and you may have to use the member list for a little while after January 15th.

→ If you are going to be using a journal on DW with a different username than the one you have now, please reply to the first comment in this post with both your old and your new usernames. Please do not reply if your journal name is the same on both sites.

→ Please comment to the new [Taken List] with your character(s). This will be a fresh start and will help us to update the Taken List.

→ Please bear with us while we work on making these changes. We will do our best to get everything up and running as soon as possible.

We will also be making another post here in POLYchromatic and mirrored on the Dreamwidth equivalent (poly_chromatic) with the results of the poll, what those results will mean, and a few final notes and suggestions before the 15th.

Thank you, POLYchromatic! We'll see you on the other side!

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...and back with a compromise-suggestion, though idk if this might not be too little, too late XD.

How about... people join the polychro main community, post on their own journals, but use the com's flist instead of keeping their own? Wooooould that work? That option's been available until now too, but I think a lot of people have forgot to add themselves to the polychro community over time, so its flist hasn't always been up to date. If people know the only flist source is the comm flist, I think they might keep better track of joining it and all that T_T

That way, we can keep the journal format but there's no longer the issue of an add/remove list, which seems to bother some and which might be a tad weirder on dw.

This is another good option and it's certainly the mode we're suggesting for the time being while the game is currently moving, and it does work! The only trick is that any posts made on either poly_tldr or tampered won't show up on the comm's flist, which can be a little inconvenient.

(And, yes, the adding/removing process DW is different from LJ...which is taking some getting accustomed to...)

Oh, Mr. Robot, oooooooooh.

Edited 2012-01-11 16:43 (UTC)

Also my control panel...opened?

I'm not sure if a lot of people would enjoy that option because it annihilates the whole clicking on friends list, getting everything you need - poly_tldr, the main comm, the log comm, the flist. If anything we could use the polychro main community flist as an add list, but that requires also waiting for people to post before we could add them.

The one thing that could help would that = making the main comm a journal at first, having it join the other comms, then turning it from journal -> comm. I know eljay used to allow that back in the day, and since dw works off old eljay coding, it might...

/ all the rambling

Oooh, maybe! But I do think a lot of people wouldn't jive with it if just for not being able to use your own friends list page. Even though this option has always been available in our LJ game, I know a lot of people who prefer community based still didn't want to join because of it, even though they had that workaround to avoid missing people.

I mean, if we went this route, could always just put a link to the poly's friend page in your layout, which annihilates that sort of "extra step" feeling. But this method I feel may end up sort of complicated to new comers?

Yeah, it's definitely a bit out of the way, but... in the end, whatever compromise way we come up with will be out of the way. Fake cutting adds the extra step of taking you to a journal (and for some people not having their activity in one format will feel weird). But I guess you're right: probably best to pick one or the other /o.

Yeah, pretty much! A compromise always ends up with an extra step. The reason why I like the fake cut compromise though is that the only people who have to do it is those who really, really want to play in their journal as opposed to the comm post - thus actively willing to go that "distance" of the c/p function. It's not an extra step to reply to those sorts of posts because you still click one link to reply, as we do normally.

And as long as we all remember to tag the community posts with some sort of system to keep track, it's at least all there. It's not aesthetically pleasing insofar as looking at the comm page and seeing posts with no comments, but hey, it's something anyway.

Edited 2012-01-11 16:48 (UTC)

The only problem is... people might ignore posts they can't see, if they have no CR with the character/pre-existent interest.

One idea might be: put the whole body of the post on the comm, disable comments, and have a link to the mirrored post on your journal that people can follow to reply.

It's also not aesthetic, but at least, I think, it might make it easier for people to become interested in those posts, versus potentially scrolling by.

That is the idea, though!

See here.

....idk why I thought it was just a fake cut straight to the post, like... none of the body there.

Possibly because reading comprehension is not for the weak.

Have a.

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....I'm out of good bribes, have my stock of my soul T_T

IT'S OKAY it was late at night so I wasn't the most fully descriptive as I could have been either!

/gently places stock back