Having more than one journal can lead to multiple personality/blog disorder. i’m a former LJ user bogged down in this situation right now, myself.

Thoughts:

I understand that Movable Type integrated a rock-solid OpenID system long ago. I did a test run of MT a couple months ago, but its backend is not as user-friendly as WP. If you can run WP, then you can run MT, but navigating MT’s backend forces me to ask myself why I’d want to make the switch. (all the same, I’m going to look into it again tonight.)

Regarding the OpenID thing, even if you found a way to bring into your everyday life all the time, I wonder if you’d still run into the problem of people not using it when they can. I love the concept of OpenID (regardless of my internet anonymity issues), but I know it hasn’t really caught on yet. I think it would need provider much bigger than Yahoo or Google to really hit the spot - I’m eyeing FB.com right now, obviously.

And finally, I notice that my former LJ-friends don’t read my journal anymore, not because i post sparingly, but because it’s not on LJ.

Well, in my case, I already have multiple-journal disorder, fostered by LJ’s filtering and security options. I have personal, intimate posts that I want to control access to, and I have public posts that I’d like for more people to see. What I’m trying to do is put more separation between them; have the public posts on my website, which I already give out to everyone (the URL is on the back of my car, even), and have the intimate posts on my LJ, so that fewer people need to know that it even exists. In other words, I want the best of both worlds

OpenID support was a request from a friend when I first brought up the idea of using a non-LJ journal system. I’ve yet to be able to get the WP-OpenID plugin to work at all, and it seems like they’re always one version behind in supporting the new WP updates. Since comments can be posted anonymously here, and it takes like two seconds to sign up for an account, it’s not a huge priority.

Thanks for the feedback! And, for what it’s worth, I read your journal

Thoughts:

I understand that Movable Type integrated a rock-solid OpenID system long ago. I did a test run of MT a couple months ago, but its backend is not as user-friendly as WP. If you can run WP, then you can run MT, but navigating MT’s backend forces me to ask myself why I’d want to make the switch. (all the same, I’m going to look into it again tonight.)

Regarding the OpenID thing, even if you found a way to bring into your everyday life all the time, I wonder if you’d still run into the problem of people not using it when they can. I love the concept of OpenID (regardless of my internet anonymity issues), but I know it hasn’t really caught on yet. I think it would need provider much bigger than Yahoo or Google to really hit the spot - I’m eyeing FB.com right now, obviously.

And finally, I notice that my former LJ-friends don’t read my journal anymore, not because i post sparingly, but because it’s not on LJ.

Example:

Over the course of developing/using my Wordpress journal, I’ve decided that I definitely want to use it as an active component of my website, beyond just storing backups of my LJ posts there. It’s an ideal method of writing site news, and using it even to the limited extent I currently am has encouraged [...]

* points to [...] and grumbles *

I use my mail client to pull RSS, and its nice to have full text available without that pesky extra click. It makes trolling blogs for treasure that much more lazy.

Not to sound mean but Felix, I think your indecisiveness gets the best of you. Do what you feel is right. I think I’m agreeing with swift on this from his LJ comment.

I know, but this doesn’t just affect me, because if I were keeping a journal only for my own benefit, I would’ve switched exclusively to Wordpress long before now with no real discussion. I feel I’ve made my decision, but I want to know what everyone who cares thinks about this.

I actually feel happy for you. taking your life in a direction that lets you be more you. I’m trying to do that now with moving to Norcal, and I know it can be tough trying to be what you want to be WHEN THE MAN….oh wait…wrong rant….(hits self for watching too many “Homie the clown” skits yesterday)

…WHEN the work you have to do is enormous.

*hugs*