Pondering again

[selenay]

I am, yet again, pondering whether to transfer my posts from LJ over to Dreamwidth and use that as my main posting platform. I could then put my LJ onto the unpaid service and pay DW instead (I need my icons!), with the advantage that I'd be sending my money to an organisation who's goals and philosophy I agree with rather than a money-grubbing corporation out to make a buck off everything I do.

Except...

A lot of the journals I follow on LJ aren't over here yet and giving up my paid status on LJ would mean ads. I hate ads.

Argh! I've been going back and forth on this one for months with no resolution. I can't justify paying for both, but I hate ads enough to dislike doing my LJ-reading with them right there. And if I'm using DW as my main posting platform, I want to support their work by having a paid account. Watch me continue to be indecisive :-(

In other news, I wrote and didn't post four things last week. I probably need to get better and finishing posts and posting them. Otherwise the entire debate in the first three paragraphs of this is pointless :-)

Comments

[nosila]

I would suggest Adblock Plus. It blocked all ads for me back when I used to frequent the mothering.com forums. They started putting ads right after the first post in any thread, big ones, and it was very, very irritating! But because I had Adblock Plus at home, I would never even have known about the ads, if they hadn't shown up when using another PC. Then you could go free on LJ and still not have any ads!

[selenay]

I've had multiple Adblock Plus suggestions :-) I shall play with it for a day or two and, if it defeats the LJ ads, I'll be making the switch :-) Seeing as I've been enthusiastic about DW since before it launched and love the ideas behind it, I should really put my money where my mouth is...