It depends what Squeaky means by that... To understand that, you'd really have to ask him. I would say though, that given that he's probably not making that much via advertising, a more relevant statistic is the number of paid account revenue. (http://www.insanejournal.com/stats.bml) There are 2K permanent users, and 700 something paid users, and some more people (under 1K for each category) paying for various types of add-on packages,with an active userbase of 180K. DW has 2Kish paid users paying more, with an active userbase of now around 25K, with the usual historical userbase being more around 21-22K. And IJ gives far more icons than DW to paid users.
Yeah, pretty much. DW is IJ's direct competitor for personal journaling, though I don't know how popular DW is for roleplayers. It was inevitable that DW was going to have a negative effect of IJ's business, especially since now under SUP LJ has gotten less strict with content.
If IJ goes down, I suspect DW might get most of the people... But I'm not sure what the RPers will do, as DW doesn't offer more icons than LJ itself, and icons seem to be the major factor in their favoring IJ.
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Date: 2011-05-17 08:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, pretty much. DW is IJ's direct competitor for personal journaling, though I don't know how popular DW is for roleplayers. It was inevitable that DW was going to have a negative effect of IJ's business, especially since now under SUP LJ has gotten less strict with content.
If IJ goes down, I suspect DW might get most of the people... But I'm not sure what the RPers will do, as DW doesn't offer more icons than LJ itself, and icons seem to be the major factor in their favoring IJ.