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amplificathonFor the past several years this community has been mirrored on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth. As the Amplificathon challenge and the Dreamwidth userbase have both grown, the mods have found running the challenge from two communities to be unmanageable and unsustainable.
We've decided that the 2012 Amplificathon will be run from Dreamwidth only. This means that, while you're free to post your podfics to the LiveJournal comm, only posts made to the Dreamwidth comm will be tallied for points. Even though the Amplificathon challenge is moving to Dreamwidth, posting to the LiveJournal community will remain open.
There are several reasons we've chosen Dreamwidth as the 'thon's home. We're rapidly approaching the LJ community's 1000 tag limit and the only way to increase that limit is by paying for the community. At this point in time we are not comfortable monetarily supporting LiveJournal. Without a tag limit increase we will be unable to continue maintaining the comm on LJ at the level we require to run the 'thon effectively. Moving to Dreamwidth and upgrading the community there allows us to keep the 'thon running and accommodate more and more readers that are creating work in more and more fandoms.
In our decision to move the 'thon to Dreamwidth we also took advantage of Dreamwidth's new community import feature. This was an important step for us to take, not only so that we will have all 'thon entries in one place and won't need to check back and forth between the comms for information, but also so that all of the community's tags import correctly and intact. This has created many duplicate entries but the mods don't consider their clean up to be a priority at this time (though we'll delete duplicates if/when we come across them, and if you have duplicated entries feel free to delete them at will).
Dreamwidth has also recently created the ability to merge your Dreamwidth account with an OpenID account. This means that you can 'claim' your imported posts and comments on Dreamwidth by connecting a Dreamwidth account to the OpenID account that made the posts. More information on that can be found here. Dreamwidth currently has open registration (ie: no invite code needed) so if you'd like to take advantage of this and don't have an account (or have an account but don't want it associated with the OpenID account your Amplificathon posts are attached to) you can create one here.
In the last year we've seen a shift in podfic presence to Dreamwidth and many new fandoms are choosing Dreamwidth as their fannish home. A large migration to Dreamwidth has happened in the last few months, and we hope you'll join us there as well!
Looking forward to the 2012 Amplificathon,
Your mods
general_jinjur, were_duck, and me (aphelant)
We've decided that the 2012 Amplificathon will be run from Dreamwidth only. This means that, while you're free to post your podfics to the LiveJournal comm, only posts made to the Dreamwidth comm will be tallied for points. Even though the Amplificathon challenge is moving to Dreamwidth, posting to the LiveJournal community will remain open.
There are several reasons we've chosen Dreamwidth as the 'thon's home. We're rapidly approaching the LJ community's 1000 tag limit and the only way to increase that limit is by paying for the community. At this point in time we are not comfortable monetarily supporting LiveJournal. Without a tag limit increase we will be unable to continue maintaining the comm on LJ at the level we require to run the 'thon effectively. Moving to Dreamwidth and upgrading the community there allows us to keep the 'thon running and accommodate more and more readers that are creating work in more and more fandoms.
In our decision to move the 'thon to Dreamwidth we also took advantage of Dreamwidth's new community import feature. This was an important step for us to take, not only so that we will have all 'thon entries in one place and won't need to check back and forth between the comms for information, but also so that all of the community's tags import correctly and intact. This has created many duplicate entries but the mods don't consider their clean up to be a priority at this time (though we'll delete duplicates if/when we come across them, and if you have duplicated entries feel free to delete them at will).
Dreamwidth has also recently created the ability to merge your Dreamwidth account with an OpenID account. This means that you can 'claim' your imported posts and comments on Dreamwidth by connecting a Dreamwidth account to the OpenID account that made the posts. More information on that can be found here. Dreamwidth currently has open registration (ie: no invite code needed) so if you'd like to take advantage of this and don't have an account (or have an account but don't want it associated with the OpenID account your Amplificathon posts are attached to) you can create one here.
In the last year we've seen a shift in podfic presence to Dreamwidth and many new fandoms are choosing Dreamwidth as their fannish home. A large migration to Dreamwidth has happened in the last few months, and we hope you'll join us there as well!
Looking forward to the 2012 Amplificathon,
Your mods
general_jinjur, were_duck, and me (aphelant)
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Date: 2012-02-21 03:56 pm (UTC)