Highlights from the Invite Codes Discussion

your_librarian says: "The problem is that there aren't many people on LJ who want them and most of the comments here are assuming that moving users from LJ is the answer to DW growth" and "most people who are still using LJ today are going to continue doing so. " and "What DW needs is a killer app, not to worry about codes. And it needs to look for new users in places where people are not yet blogging but nonetheless producing content. What would make them want to produce their content here?"

I would say that I agree with most of these statements, except that IMHO, it's harder to get new users because DW, as an LJ fork, has a high learning curve. Livejournal has been stagnant or declining in usage over the past year. Meanwhile, Wordpress has been growing, and the microblog service Tumblr has experienced dramatic growth. (Lately, Tumblr seems to have done such things as providing a meetup organizing place and creating a film festival also. )

[BTW, my Tumblr.]

chris claims that invite codes decrease diversity, and what he has to say is objectively true to a certain extent. Many of the comments by the people saying they want 'community' and like the smallness of DW suggest this, IMHO. It's a trade-off, to a certain extent, between community and diversity. (As I state on the thread, I don't support invite codes for reasons of community preservation, but for spam prevention)