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Flag courtesy of SessLover18
For anyone who hasn't heard yet, there's a project on TheOtaku to collect and share our stories of the MyOtaku community, and how we've been affected by the sudden, unexpected damage brought on by the Version Vibrant launch. It's not about bashing Version Vibrant, and it it a peaceful project (please read the introduction carefully), but any and all perspectives on TheOtaku, MyOtaku, and how the two have fallen apart are welcome there. The site is "Passive Dissent. Feel free to comment on any of the postings, and speak as much as you are comfortable with sharing. The banner and flag both link to the project above, I'll probably make my own banner, button or badge for my page here and offer it to others to use should they want to use it. Much thanks to the creators of the above banners for their use here.
And Now, The Update:
Another update on my Writing Challenge. It came to my attention that the video I posted here is no longer working (and people wonder why I detest YouTube with a passion). I can direct people to a full version of the theme song, and possibly another video clip of the TV size theme as well. It was performed by The Ventures for those who seek to find the theme on their own. There isn't a whole lot of interest in this project, so I'll probalby not do it again in this format.
I'm down to 5,000 words left in my novel, still got a way to go, and I'm still working on getting pyrography commissions open as well. Other than that, I'm exhausted right now, been awake WAY too long today.
Comments
Yensid:
For one reason or another, a lot of people left. Last week, when I posted this, I was seriously feeling out of touch. I've moved on now so to speak. There are people I'll not be able to contact again and so forth, and I'm okay with that now. It was just way too much for me to handle at one time.
It seems that things have come around completely. Back in 2003, blogging wasn't as important a thing for me as it is now, I value the communication and sharing I do outside of my family. I get feedback and support from all over the world when I blog, which is really cool when you stop to think about it. It is a shame that the written word's value isn't seen for what it is, but those are the times we live in. In a year or so, people will start to pick up again and we'll see a surge in blogging. Probably not here, but somewhere. MBRP is a nice diversion, I've been into that myself since 2003, but it's not interfered with my blogging any (actually the MBRP forum I'm on is slowing down, but sumer rolls around and that will change, it always does), and it's not the same. It's interaction, but not really communicating cause all you'r basically doing there is a written form of improvisation.
I have a space on MSN too, it's a very painful site to load on my computer, so I'll check my e-mail and that, and post there once in a while, but I won't be able to interact for long periods of time there. The site is just way too clunky and difficult.
Yeah, it's sad to see out of date blogs and dead links to now defunct sites and stuff, it happens though. I haven't been on MySpace enough to really know what's going on there, so I say I don't like it now, but that's only cause I don't know how it works. Once I figure all that out, I'll know and not be nearly as critical of it.
Normally I'd be one to say "keep your site, ride it out" but I really don't have it in me to be the reason someone stays were they're not happy anymore. i made that mistake too many times in the past. I'm on MySpace now, I'm on dA, I'm on Blogger, Windows Live Spaces, I'm not hard to find for the people who want to find me. My e-mail is right up there in the menu so I can be contacted that way if nothing else as well. I don't like to lose touch with good friends. i hate to see them go, but that's part of life too, and if I want to stay in touch, it's time I made the sacrifices and followed where my firends go instead of expecting them to stay with me.
I will be updating that blog on a weekly basis along with many of my other blogs as well. I have My "professional" World, my MyOtaku blog here, DeviantArt, and Blogger that will all be updated weekly, Spaces, MySpace, and TokyoPop will be bi-weekly beginning next week, Yahoo! 360, Imeem, and I think I have a blog through AIM, not sure, will be updated once a month starting in April. I have these things all over the place and don't even know it sometimes, so I might find other blogs in my name I haven't touched yet.
Oh yeah, as Q put it in the last episode of ST:TNG "See you... out there."
AngelBest Dream:
Yeah, it's been a hard week for all of us here I think. I'm just glad to see things starting to take shape and begin to fall back into a somewhat confortable pace and flow. You know, when I posted this on TheO, I had a visitor I did not know pop me a comment. She was motivated by my sentiment to take what I had written and post the URL in a comment to Adam's Founder's Diary World on TheOtaku. That one simple little action put the ball in motion that lead to the creation of Passive Dissent. None of us who post on that World know if we are being heard, but it feels better for us to get our stories out there to the public anyway.
I try to keep myself easy to contact, I'm on dA, the link is right there at the bottom of every post of mine, I'll link up some of my other blogs and online locales so that it's even easier to find me when I'm out and about. I would hate to be one of the last Old School people still on the site here, I really would. I'm probalby one of few non-staff members left from the 2003 era, now that's kind of sad. Wherever our paths take us, I hope they take us together because good friends are so hard to find these days.
No, when everything appears to be lost is not the time to pack out, that's the time to stand firm, because that's when there's the most hope for things. When Adam sees people hanging in here, even through all of the things happening, all the features going to TheO, he'll know we're loyal to our home, and will do whatever it takes to keep it.
We don't really know if we've done a good job of that yet or not, there's been no difrect official response ot Passive Dissent that I'm aware of. I can only hope Adam, or someone on staff has read through those postings and see that there's more to MyOtaku.com than the features and fucntions, it's about the community we had here that fell to pieces really by accident when Version Vibrant came in and forced people to choose which direction they wanted to go.
Version Vibrant lacks a cohesive community element, something to bring people together. Adam's had this "vision" of the perfect site in his head for years now (I believe he posted about it in his MyO blog back in 2004 prior to the Version ReDefined launch). Does Version Vibrant meet his vision? He hasn't said anything about that yet. I don't think it's where he wants it to be yet myself, but that's just a hunch.
The sad thing is, there's no easy way to find out if the people who were on here packed up and moved to Version Vibrant wihtout saying anything, or just up and left the site. I know a lot of people have gone for months without posting, I have some non-updates in my friends list that go back to 2004. The number of people who comment here has gone down, but you know, in the process of losing a lot of contact, I've met new people,and I've found old friends you just changed their names so there's hope for this community yet. I'll tell you to bookmark my dA page, and bookmark my Geocities website, I'll get a cluster of links up on that. I've had my Yahoo! account since 1997 so I'll not give that up for anything. Just in case this place does come down around us. I hope anyone who comments here has my contact info saved so that I can be reached one way or another. I'm not ready to start preaching a hellfire and brimstone fate for the site yet, there are glimmers that thihngs are looking up.
Patience alone doesn't solve anything, but it's a big help when something is difficult to handle.
A good idea to consider a second source on this once cause I will stubbornly hold onto this site till the day it's no longer online. That wouldn't be fair to anyone who relies on my judgement to know if and when it's time to leave.
I have too much invested here to leave myself, and I don't think peole should give up on the place just yet either. I would hope others would stay and help me, by commenting on Passive Dissent, putting in their two cnets when Adam asks for feedback on both TheO and MyO, but if you must go, yoiu must go, I don't make myself hard to find, and I'll link my other places here so that anyone who does leave can still reach me should they want to.
kitbug69:
The whole minority/majority thing, not going to get into that, but it was hurting to see the community crumbling. I think it's settled down for a while, hopefully it'll pick up again, be won't really know till it happens.
If enough people, especially long term members get behind Passive Dissent, then we will turn some heads for sure. We have to do what we can to make our voice heard, and heard in a way that's not hostile to the site. I think we're doing that very well. I hope that what we say there impacts what goes on here.
master hiko
Welcome to my little corner of what's left of MyOtaku. I'd tell you to pull up a chair, but those might be packed up and hauled away next.
I didn't know him, but I did read his post, and it was really something. That's the kind of thing that would jar me if I ran a site like this and saw. Though I think he would have left regardless of Version Vibrant's launch, I think the launch may have induced his leaving prematurely. That's just me. He did leave his e-mail in is profile there, so he shoudln't be too hard to reach for those who really want to stay in touch with him.
We sure have been here a long time haven't we? Seems like it was just last week i was registering this account to have it ready for whe I could upload my anime fanart (at the time I dind't have a scanner). I hear that, the people I've met here have shaped me and helped me to grow and adapt. It's sad to see what's become of things. It's not all bad though, there is some light. Things are being worked on, so hopefully the cummunity will see activity again.
X.PUNK_.x._ZERO.x
Welcome back, good to see you again, even if your name is different.
By now, I'm troo exhausted to be frustrated with the new site. It is annoying that you have to be on both to really know who's updating and when, but that's how it has to be for now. The most irritating detail with the PM system is there's no easy way to do it. If a person hasn't already sent you a message, there's no easy link to send a PM like the ones here on MyO used to do. That alone would be an improvement for the new PM system.
Of course I'll add you again, I look forward to following your updates, and I've subscried to you on VV as well so I'll know when you update there too.
Kita and I were talking in IM about how we felt and all and the idea came to us to put together a World that would showcase the soul of the community which was, and still is, hurting from the rapid jerk in two different dirrections as Version Vibrant launched. She was probably asking if you wanted to geust post your perspective on MyOtaku's loss of community on Passive Dissent, if you want to join the cause to speak up and defend the home we know. If you have something to say about the MyOtaku community and want to guest post in Passive Dissent, let Kita know so she can get you in there and you can get your post up.
I'll try not to be a stranger this time, and you try not to be one too, okay?
ima loser baby
Welcome to my little corner of MyOtaku. As I mentioned to mater hiko, I'd offer you a chair but they might get pulled right out from under you so you;ll have to make do without.
I saw your comment there, and I thank you again for your bold move in taking my post to Adam. I don't know if he read it, but you kind of started a movement with that one simple act. I appreciate that because it's brought people together over on TheO, and got people talking over here too. What you did was really in the spirit of community, and it got us both a new friend too.
Gotta dig the lizards, not to mention my favorite flavor is "Dragon". SoBe, good stuff.
