We have several announcements to make, but the primary one is this:

After thirteen and a half years on InsaneJournal, we’ve decided that it’s time to relocate Daily Deviant to DreamWidth.

We’ve loved living on IJ, and we’ve stayed put for as long as we could, but recent months have made it apparent that the comm can no longer thrive here. Spam commenting has become a major issue. We can’t leave anonymous commenting on without getting thoroughly flooded with junk. And with anon commenting turned off, no one can use OpenID to comment with other accounts either. Therefore, no one can comment or participate unless they have an IJ account. Even more limiting is the fact that new users can no longer open IJ accounts without an invitation code from an existing user. This creates a situation that’s counter to the atmosphere of participation and interaction that we’ve always attempted to foster.

So, we’re moving. We already have a Daily Deviant comm on Dreamwidth. Up until now, it’s only been used as a placeholder and a spot to crosspost announcements. Over the next couple of months, we will work on getting it set up to be a fully functional community.

We will officially be designating November as "Moving Month." There will be no kinks/themes for the month. Instead, we will focus on making sure that all of our members get moved over and set up, and that everything is up and running.

All of this means that our plans for Kinky Kristmas are changing. Since our energy will be focused on the move, we won’t be able to run KK as the full, double-blind anonymous event as we’d originally intended. Instead, we’ll be running Comment Kink again. However, we’ll be running it on DW, which means there will be a much greater opportunity for open participation.

And then we will be running Banging Birthday as the full, double-blind anonymous event in March. (Actually, we’ll probably run it in April to allow plenty of time for prompt claiming and writing/drawing after KK... but exact details will be hashed out later.) We’re optimistic that, by that time, everyone will have heard about the move, participation will be high, and gobs of smutty fun will be had by all (or at least a great many).

Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be focusing on making sure as many people as possible are aware of the move. We’ll be reaching out to members who’ve been a bit absent and whipping up some advertising banners. We’d really appreciate it if all of you would help us to spread the word. Let your freaky friends know that the pervy party is continuing at a new address. Once we have banners, please repost them. As always, this comm is great because of its members!

Stay tuned for further updates regarding the move, Kinky Kristmas, Banging Birthday, and more. Things will continue to be "business as usual" for the rest of September and October here on IJ until Moving Month in November. Keep on kinking the place up. Then we’ll see you in our new home soon!