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More about Livejournal
Mar. 21st, 2008 09:00 pmJust to clarify, I'd probably be more amenable to the elimination of basic accounts if they'd brought it up in a more tactful way (more advance notice, overall openness, etc.). If I'd got the impression that they would've handled the increased move to a heavily ad-supported model with more respect for the users than they've been showing, I wouldn't have gotten as mad as I did. As is, there've been many little messes, and this was just one of the straws. It's not quite the last straw, and a large part of that is that there isn't yet an alternative that gives me the extent of networking I have now (with over 100 LJ friends, a fair number of who I wouldn't want to lose touch with).
But, above all, SUP is a Russian company. And this post points out that Livejournal's big in Russia, way bigger than it is in the English-speaking countries. Those points make a lot of sense.
Now, why did I like Livejournal in the first place? It's a combination of two things, really, well covered in this post which discusses what the strong points of LJ really are--control of who reads your entries, following all your LJfriends on a single page, comments with clear threading and email notifications, personalization with icons, and above all the ease of use of every single of those features. Myspace and Facebook probably do at least some of them, but I've never looked at them in depth because they give me a nasty impression of being very clunky, way worse than Livejournal is.
This is why I tend to find standard blogging services uninteresting, by the way. The lack of those aforementioned features leaves them feeling less friendly than Livejournal does to me. And it's annoying that I can't just drop a note onto someone's post and then go away not having to reload that comment page every so often just to see if I've got any responses.
But, above all, SUP is a Russian company. And this post points out that Livejournal's big in Russia, way bigger than it is in the English-speaking countries. Those points make a lot of sense.
Now, why did I like Livejournal in the first place? It's a combination of two things, really, well covered in this post which discusses what the strong points of LJ really are--control of who reads your entries, following all your LJfriends on a single page, comments with clear threading and email notifications, personalization with icons, and above all the ease of use of every single of those features. Myspace and Facebook probably do at least some of them, but I've never looked at them in depth because they give me a nasty impression of being very clunky, way worse than Livejournal is.
This is why I tend to find standard blogging services uninteresting, by the way. The lack of those aforementioned features leaves them feeling less friendly than Livejournal does to me. And it's annoying that I can't just drop a note onto someone's post and then go away not having to reload that comment page every so often just to see if I've got any responses.
