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In the recent exodus from LJ, some iconmakers have completely turned their back on LJ. With this community, I'm hoping to give iconmakers a place to gather and chat, to exchange ideas and show each other our icons, and to promote any iconmaking activities going on around here.
I'm sure there are also those who are crossposting, or still actively engaged in the iconmaking community on LJ. The iconmaking community on LJ was, last I checked, determined to stay together on LJ. I support that decision. A community lives by its numbers, and the more people leave, the harder it is to keep interesting activities going. The goal of this community here is not to split the iconmaker community down the middle. So what is it? Let's find out!
To get a sense of what you would like to see, how you see this community developing, please fill out this poll:
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30
LJ vs DW
DW - I have no (longer an) account on LJ and want to make icons on DW now
10 (34.5%)
LJ - I am an active iconmaker on LJ and want to stay there
2 (6.9%)
Both would be okay
17 (58.6%)
Neither (I am not an iconmaker (yet))
0 (0.0%)
Skills
Pro - I have been doing this for more than a year
13 (43.3%)
Intermediate - I think I have medium skills
9 (30.0%)
Beginner - I am a beginner at iconmaking
6 (20.0%)
None - I want to learn how to make icons
2 (6.7%)
Other - I am not an iconmaker
0 (0.0%)
What I expect from this community
Interaction with other iconmakers
20 (69.0%)
Finding other iconmakers to add to my circle
10 (34.5%)
An up-to-date list of active challenges on DW
25 (86.2%)
An up-to-date list of active challenges on LJ
7 (24.1%)
Icon community promos
21 (72.4%)
Icon challenges to be run here within this community
18 (62.1%)
Icon tutorials
15 (51.7%)
Concrit for my icons
7 (24.1%)
Something else I will tell you in a comment
0 (0.0%)
But of course, this is an iconTALKING community, so go ahead and talk to me! And to each other!
Feel free to promote this community to your heart's content! The more members, the merrier!
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Date: 2017-04-16 11:48 pm (UTC)I recently deleted my LJ, so I'm all in on DW. I'd love to see the amount of icon making activities/challenges/concrit that could be found over there get translated over here.
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Date: 2017-04-17 07:40 am (UTC)I'd love to see an iconmaker community grow over here, too. But at the same time I don't want to draw any people away from the LJ community, which is still some 200 makers strong and would suffer from losing people to DW.
So I think it's going to be a balancing act - until LJ goes away for good, which is just a matter of time, I think. I hope that we'll have built a foundation here by then, to attract iconmakers here.
The current status on DW is, sadly, dismal. Two iconmaking communities (and one of them is a copy of an LJ comm). That's ... nothing. So we'll just start small here.
Iconmaking is still a fun hobby and everyone likes and needs icons, so it should come naturally. *g*
My current plan is to start some challenges/battles here in this comm, as people seem to be favoring that idea in the poll. And then we'll see where we go from here.
We definitely need more promotion of this comm.
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Date: 2017-04-22 08:04 am (UTC)It looks like I will be the community's resident newbie for a while. Moving to DW has given me this huge impulse to start to learn new fando-related skills when I have the time and this is the second step...(posting a meta challenge to myself for next month was the first)
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Date: 2017-04-23 01:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 01:58 pm (UTC)