recent LJ controversies, Three Weeks for DW

[charmian]

Been busy translating some stuff, although I am planning to put up some links about the latest Facebook events.

Hmm, at this point a lot of my thoughts about LJ's latest scandal regarding the Driving Revenue/Outboundlinks stuff can be summed up by this animated .gif. Here are tips on dealing with the issue, in case you haven't heard already.

Also, there's a comm on DW dedicated to creating exclusive content for DW for three weeks. Since most of the content in this blog is original and not cross-posted to anywhere else, I guess you could say I'm already 'participating.' Anyhow, this campaign makes me wonder whether it is true that one of the impediments to DW growth is that there is a dearth of original content on DW?

Poll #2875

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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What do you think the main factor impeding/slowing DW growth is?

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Lack of DW-exclusive content
6 (10.9%)

Dearth of active comms
33 (60.0%)

Invite code system
3 (5.5%)

Insufficient publicity
1 (1.8%)

Something else which I will detail in comments
12 (21.8%)

Comments

[torachan]

Right, but if you are popular enough to have thousands of people following you, IMO, there is a much higher chance that they will be willing to read you wherever you go. So I don't think they're likely to lose a large chunk of their audience by moving to DW, because the audience will follow them. I mean, these are people whose fans will follow them to new fandoms, so why not a new journalling platform?

[charmian]

I don't know; in the past, I saw a few people leave LJ temporarily, and even though they were BNFs, they received far fewer comments. IIRC the platform was WP, though, so I think they wouldn't lose as many if they went to DW. On the other hand, though, I'm not a BNF/popular LJ user who has tried this, so I can't really say.