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

View Respondents

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

[liv]

Yeah, I think you may be right to be skeptical about the cross-site reading thing. I am looking at people who basically want to be on DW but aren't willing to give up their LJ social circles; those people will be much happier with cross-site reading. But there may well be more people who only reluctantly use DW at all, and they will lose their incentive as you say.

The automatic cross-poster is one thing that, in my circles, is pushing people towards, oh well, might as well use both even if I don't passionately believe in DW. I kind of hope that the cross-site reading will have a similar effect, again contributing to tipping the balance in favour of DW being perceived as the more active site. But if it's too exclusive and / or too difficult to use, it'll end up having practically no effect (other than to make me happy that I don't have to load the insecure, ugly LJ site any more).

[charmian]

It's hard to say, really, although I think that the fact that it's a paid-only feature is going to highly limit whatever impact it has, positive, negative, neutral.

Huh, but then don't you still need to load the page to comment? I guess currently you can get a similar effect if you are using your personal computer with an RSS reader program, or if you use mobile you could read your flist through an RSS reader app which allows authentication.