Hello? Is anyone still here?

[lostcarpark]

I 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

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[viclet]

Still here, but only tend to post to communities these days, and comment on other people's posts. I guess I ought to write up my activities more, even if only for me, but I'm too busy doing them!

[dougs]

I'm here, I post and/or/comment occasionally, but I endeavour to at least skim-read my entire friends-page.

It's my principal RSS aggregator.

[nwhyte]

A lot of the standard chatter has migrated to Facebook and Twitter. It's a shame since those are much more ephemeral but they require less energy for a lot of people.

Myself I'm going to shift to Wordpress on my own site, cross-posting to LJ, as soon as the everything is in place.

[hawkida]

For what it does, LJ surpasses all other platforms I've encountered (haven't really investigated Dreamwidth).

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.

[flick]

There used to be a tickbox on the delete form for "mark as spam".

It's now a whole separate button: instead of the red X, click on the red crossed-out-circle next to it.