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

[elena]

it did seem to a lot of people in, say, fandom, that one day 'everyone' was using MLs (or in the case of my circle of friends, pitas.com and self-hosted Greymatter/MT installations)

My first fandom-ish blog was hosted by pitas, then by antville.org. Both of them (and diaryland, and a few other platforms) are nowadays more or less the Internet journaling equivalents of coelacanths :D

I moved to LJ in 2003 (with an invite I exchanged for one of deadjournal.com, where I have an early adopter account) because I wanted to comment on the journals of people who had moved from pitas to LJ.

[charmian]

Yeah, that was pretty much how things worked out IME. So basically, I think a lot of people have that kind of expectation, that there will be a transition.