Not that I'm contributing to the solution here...

[curvemudgeon]

...but remember those days when you used to refresh this once an hour, vs. once a day or even once a month? Good times....

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[bluvampr]

yep. i personally refresh about once a day, and generally get one or two new posts. but it's slow, slow slow in this neck of the woods :-/

[curvemudgeon]

If I don't load community pages then yeah, I could go with one, maybe two reloads a day and that'd cover everything on a near real-time basis :\.

Like I said though, I'm not really part of the solution. I'm splitting my social online bits mostly over on G+ these days, with tehTwatter running a moderate 2nd. I find myself less and less able to compose long format posts.

[doc_quixote]

I haven't really been doing any long-form posts anywhere... G+ seems amazingly limited when you consider that most of (what I see as) missing pieces already exist in the Google cloud (Google _has_ a calendaring platform already hooked into the same infrastructure as G+, one would assume that handling something similar to Facebook Events would be trivial; Google has a "groups" product hooked in, you'd think something akin to Facebook Groups would be trivial; the list goes on...), FB gets used mostly for one-liners and random snark, and most of the stuff that once ended up here can be broken down into either "it's complicated" or "it's boring".

[curvemudgeon]

Wouldn't know; don't have a FB account, don't have a desire for one.

[anarcha]

Once a day here. Sad. But no point to refresh more when no activity to refresh.

[curvemudgeon]

And no reason to contribute if there's no audience. Vicious cycle.

[joanarkham]

I just can't get into G+ for some reason. I can't even tell why...

[curvemudgeon]

It seems to slot conveniently between Twitter and blogspot/LJ/WP long-format stuff. I assume it's designed to supplant Facebook but since I never went down that rabbit hole I can't compare them.

[joanarkham]

Yeah, it's just missing...something. I agree that a great calendar would be something to really compete with FB. I also wish the phone app had some more features, since that's what I use most often for social networking.

[pastor_saturn]

That sounds like me...I set up a G+ account ages ago and haven't checked in since. It's like a hot new restaurant you try once and somehow never make it back to.

Facebook, of course, is like Applebees.

[curvemudgeon]

I wasn't minding, honest! :D

Besides, your monthly average output exceeds the sum total of my contributions for the last year or so.

[eriss]

Maybe not every hour....

[curvemudgeon]

What, you tryin' to imply I'm obsessive or somethin'?

[eriss]

Nope, just saying I still check lj a couple times a day versus when I used to check it every 15 mins. ;)