Comments | elfwreck: LJ activity continues to drop

elfwreck

LJ activity continues to drop

Dec 22, 2007 22:37

From the Statistics page today (12/22/07)
* Total accounts: 14500541
* ... active in some way: 1718931
* ... that have ever updated: 8869876
* ... updating in last 30 days: 958074
* ... updating in last 7 days: 543214
* ... updating in past 24 hours: 148189

To check back over the last couple of years, there's ( Read more... )

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elfwreck December 23 2007, 07:24:13 UTC

some leavin' LJ links

InsaneJournal migration posts

Comparison of a few different journal services. Short summation: IJ FTW. Not that IJ is perfect, but it's the best available: is run by someone who says he won't remove user content for other than legal reasons (or probably trolling, counting that as "interfering with others' use of the service" clause in the TOS), comes with many many userpics, free accounts yay, paid & perm accounts cheap (although he's thinking of maybe discontinuing perms early next year ( ... )

sunfell December 23 2007, 15:31:31 UTC

I'm getting ready to post my 'countdown notice', and I've made IJ my home page. While I have 8 months of time left here, I think that what you said is true- places like this live and die by recommendations. I no longer recommend LJ to people. And 30 of my LJ friends have already made the jump. That says something.

elfwreck December 23 2007, 07:26:48 UTC

Scrapbook is broken. When I had it, it was always utter hell trying to find unsorted stuff, and some of the galleries didn't seem to flag correctly--it was like there were two different "gallery" categories and they didn't work together.

Email LJ support. Do it while not logged in, and you'll get an email reply with an auth code at the end of it that can be used to view the support request when not logged in (and, incidentally, be shared). If you send in the report from the website while logged in, the link will not be sharable, and won't be usable when not logged in.

vicki_sine December 23 2007, 14:24:51 UTC

Yeop I think you nailed it.

I will continue using this journal because my friends are here.

But yesterday I was advising a friend his wife who is an author, should start a new journal on one of the other more viable options, that LJ was showing signs of that slow decay thing.

ranunculus December 23 2007, 16:37:02 UTC

Thank you for posting these statistics, they are very interesting ( ... )

elfwreck December 23 2007, 17:26:44 UTC

does LJ have a core of supporters who are willing to pay for the service.Doesn't matter, if they have or acquire a core of supporters who are willing to put up with increasingly prevalent advertising--which is driving away a number of old-time users ( ... )

7leaguebootdisk December 24 2007, 01:05:30 UTC

Interesting set of analysis. I've been bummed out, lj is really handy (I like not having to not worry about if I want to be out to everyone who knows how to use google), not having the community/security of LJ will suck. And I don't care about anything having to do with the TOS stuff that bothers you (well, the nursing icon thing). Madness. I guess it is time to go, or see what the Russians do (not thrilled about the idea of them, I just don't trust them at all, less so than corp America, and that is saying something).

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elfwreck December 24 2007, 01:51:54 UTC

They can lie some; it's plummeted again today, and I really don't think that's because of anything 6A or SUP did... LJ gets slow around major holidays, because people get a life have family visits and all that.

But a steady trend for over two years... yeah, that part doesn't lie. The fact that it's steady, instead of increasing when the controversial news announcements hit (like the addition of advertising) means that people really aren't leaving over the controversies--just that the hype isn't overcoming the attrition, which is substantial.