On the future of LiveJournal
[continued from lj_election_en]
I agree with schpydurx' comment. I appreciate the consistency and intellectual value of the LiveJournal format. However, the erosion of the legacy userbase and apathy-loss (...I know there's a term for it somewhere) cause me much concern.
I believe that LiveJournal can survive and grow by focing on this very nature and embracing the popular userbase without - by NOT - compromising its format or the retention of its existing userbase.
With proper stewardship, many classical user communities such as "The Well" have been able to maintain their niche userbases. LiveJournal can do better than that. The place for LiveJournal is to act as a counterbalance against the dumbing of social media; the place you can go for real friends, when you don't want to "Facebook" or "Twitter", when you want to want to have a real conversation with words and pictures and not 140-characters-or-less.
Accordingly, I support the nomination of cheesemon.
I agree with schpydurx' comment. I appreciate the consistency and intellectual value of the LiveJournal format. However, the erosion of the legacy userbase and apathy-loss (...I know there's a term for it somewhere) cause me much concern.
I believe that LiveJournal can survive and grow by focing on this very nature and embracing the popular userbase without - by NOT - compromising its format or the retention of its existing userbase.
With proper stewardship, many classical user communities such as "The Well" have been able to maintain their niche userbases. LiveJournal can do better than that. The place for LiveJournal is to act as a counterbalance against the dumbing of social media; the place you can go for real friends, when you don't want to "Facebook" or "Twitter", when you want to want to have a real conversation with words and pictures and not 140-characters-or-less.
Accordingly, I support the nomination of cheesemon.