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

[charmian]

I think the perception of lack of growth is relative and also subjective; whether DW seems full or empty to someone seems to depend on their type of usage/what sort of content they're interested in and their history of usage of journal services.

(I think the daily posts include IIRC feeds and comms as well, but I'm not quite sure about that)

[yvi]

Well, I usually have to do skip=40 every morning, so I have the impression of a very active Dreamwidth community :)

I think the daily posts include IIRC feeds and comms as well, but I'm not quite sure about that

Definitely not feeds. Not sure on the comms, I might have to look at the code for that :)

[charmian]

Yeah, I think it really does have to do with the interests someone has and what kinds of journals they like to read.