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]

By network model, do you mean the friends-list page? Or the commenting? I guess I'm just not understanding what the unique part of LJ in this respect is.

Hmm, if commenting is important to you, and you're not as interested in the installed base, I'd actually suggest Posterous over Tumblr. Posterous has native commenting, so you don't have to create your own, though unfortunately, it doesn't have threading yet, and it has a reading page. (However, Posterous doesn't have reblogging. Though, if reblogging is not important to you, that doesn't matter) I also think that Posterous is slightly closer to a social network, because they have profile pages (for a sample, see mine.