Hello? Is anyone still here?
Aug. 1st, 2011 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkI find myself using LJ less and less, and the arrival of G+ which seems to be growing into the type of community I used to find in LJ once upon a time, makes me wonder if that's the natural successor to LJ.
The other option seems to be Dreamwidth, which seem to be doing some very neat things, and seem to be more interested in developing a community than LJ have been for quite some time. However, I can't help wonder if they're just trying to plug the holes in a sinking ship.
I recently realised that most of my LJ activity has been deleting anonymous spam comments. LJ seem to have given up trying to prevent spam. There used to be a tickbox on the delete form for "mark as spam". That has disappeared, suggesting they have no intention of doing anything to curtail spam. The simple solution for me is to disable anonymous comments.
Looking back, it's a bit of a pity. I remember the science fiction community we used to have on LJ, and that has all but evaporated. We have bits and pieces of it on other social networks, but it seems much more fragmented, and too easy to miss interesting stuff. It would be wonderful if we had something like that again.
The other option seems to be Dreamwidth, which seem to be doing some very neat things, and seem to be more interested in developing a community than LJ have been for quite some time. However, I can't help wonder if they're just trying to plug the holes in a sinking ship.
I recently realised that most of my LJ activity has been deleting anonymous spam comments. LJ seem to have given up trying to prevent spam. There used to be a tickbox on the delete form for "mark as spam". That has disappeared, suggesting they have no intention of doing anything to curtail spam. The simple solution for me is to disable anonymous comments.
Looking back, it's a bit of a pity. I remember the science fiction community we used to have on LJ, and that has all but evaporated. We have bits and pieces of it on other social networks, but it seems much more fragmented, and too easy to miss interesting stuff. It would be wonderful if we had something like that again.
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Date: 2011-08-01 05:20 pm (UTC)It is suited to medium to long form content.
It builds a personal archive for each user.
It keeps things chronological.
It archives things WELL, so it's intuitive to find old entries.
It threads comments.
It gives you a logical feed of all those you're interested in one long list.
Blogs do all but the last one. Twitter, G+ and Facebook fail horribly at the accessible archives.
Twitter is not about long content at all, and the others don't seem to excel at it - eg, try putting something up with multiple links and pictures so everyone can share it easily.
But none of this is any good if people don't post or read it, and it's diminished somewhat by the new owners' obsession with celebrity, stupid stories about goats, and pointless ephemeral "gifts" in the form of gifs to clutter your info page.