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

[starlady]

I think about 90% of my circle on DW, maybe even 95%, are "new" people/comms to me--ironically the person who got me into DW was someone I had friended on LJ literally like a week before I won the Open ID lottery. And I like my rlist a lot.

I did notice the performance problems, even using LJ in the limited capacity that I do these days, and in fairness my capacity for accepting LJ's shenanigans as the nature of the beast is just low in general. But most of the journals I was reading on LJ were not mutual friends, which doubtlessly helped me make the switch to the extent that I have.

[charmian]

I actually didn't notice the performance problems on LJ when I went to the site during that period. It was rather odd.

Yeah, I think lack of mutual friendings definitely helps there; if you're just reading non-locked content, you had might as well use google reader, or read as a feed on DW.