Curious

[perial]

The number of journals and communities on LJ is doubling roughly ever other year, and has been for at least 5 years. However, the number of postings per day has been as high as 500K, but is now stabilized at around 200K. So not only is there less overall activity, the average activity on each journal/community is halving every other year. Which

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[bitterlawngnome]

dreamwidth ?

[bitterlawngnome]

BTW the reduction in posts - a lot of it is the fact that hardly anyone posts "what kind of hamburger am I?" type memes anymore ... they are all over on facebook. which is a good thing, IMO.

[perial]

But... what kind of hamburger *are* you?

Yeah, I can probably live without those.

[bitterlawngnome]

bacon triple cheezburger, probably.

WordPress

[viralbus]

I moved from Blogger to WordPress, and although both work well, I appreciate the flexibility of the latter.

Re: WordPress

[perial]

Should look at that, too. I assume the gravatar thing is optional? The defaults look awful and the terms for getting a real one are nasty.

Re: WordPress

[viralbus]

Yes, it's of course optional.

[perial]

It just occurred to me that another reason participation has dropped (and it definitely has) is that it's one page load too hard to make comments. On facebook, if you have something to say, you just click a box, type, click a button right there. Here, you have to find the comment link (which can be disguised with fancy wording), wait for the page to load, possibly scroll down to the Post a new comment link, type, press a button, wait for another page load while it gets posted, then go back two pages to get back to where you were. Much more disruptive of the reading process, and thus dampening to the conversation.

[quaryn_dk]

That's where tabbed browsing comes in handy.

[perial]

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