Does Nudging do any good?

[pink_halen]

Are our friends lost to other social media? Is there any way to draw them back? I have tried the "Nudge a Friend" but see no evidence that it worked. I tried the program the LJ offered six months ago where people were invited back with the lure of some member benefits. I saw no evidence that brought anyone back. (In fact, even LJ has been quiet

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[sewcute]

I think part of the issue is the crappy LJ app.

[pink_halen]

I don't use an LJ app. This is directly at the website.

If friends don't respond to direct invitations, What can we do to bring them back to LiveJournal?

[flying_blind]

I think sewcute was saying that one reason people are reluctant to use LJ anymore is that the app available for LJ is inferior to the apps available for rival social media sites. A majority of people access the Internet by mobile phone now, and the share still using computers is declining rapidly.

A crappy mobile app could be a factor, but I still think the (probably irreversible) loss of the lead LJ once had in sheer mass of users is the main reason for the relentlessness of its decline. The fewer users we have, the less attractive the place becomes, and the less attractive it becomes the fewer users we have. A vicious cycle is terribly hard to break.

[sewcute]

That is what I meant.

I wish I knew how to get people back. . .I miss the community that I used to have on here with my friends, it's just not the same on Facebook (or any other site)

[archmage]

Hell, i took an extended hiatus and only recently returned. I just missed the old place. Not sure how to entice others back, though, hard to do when they are entrenched elsewhere with the majority of people.

[flying_blind]

There seems to be a lot of inertia in social media, and a critical mass of users is important. Once people are embedded in a site they become reluctant to leave, as long as that site stays abreast of the times. It would have been easier to have kept the mass of users LJ once had than it would be to get them back now that it's so empty. The decline began when the site was owned by 6 Apart. Wicked Stepmother never really loved us, and didn't do enough to keep us here, so a lot of us left, and then she sold the rest of us to the Russians

[sewcute]

I think a lot of it has to do with the "higher" ups. I tried dreamwidth, but it just didn't have the community that LJ had.

[liliaeth]

The annoying part for me is, that even though lj is by far superior to the likes of Tumblr, most of new fandom is moving over to tumblr, so if you want to keep up with new fandoms, you have no choice but to join them there.

I just wish I could get people to come back here, because Tumblr sucks for decent discussions.

[mdlbear]

I automatically cross-post from Dreamwidth, which is where many of my LJ friends have gone. There are still enough people who only post -- and comment -- on LJ to keep it on my reading list. I also use it as a feed aggregator.