grrr re: basic account decision
::groan::
While offline this week, I learned that LJ has changed its account levels. Needless to say, Brad's pissed. I'm pissed. Not only because we both vehemently disagree with this change, but because they made such a change without consulting us. Or rather, we were both at a lunch a while back where they asked us what we thought and we ( Read more... )
While offline this week, I learned that LJ has changed its account levels. Needless to say, Brad's pissed. I'm pissed. Not only because we both vehemently disagree with this change, but because they made such a change without consulting us. Or rather, we were both at a lunch a while back where they asked us what we thought and we ( Read more... )
It's mediocre as a blogging platform. Make it a better blogging platform. There should be nothing wordpress.com or blogspot.com offers that livejournal.com doesn't offer.
It already kicks their arses as a social network. Make it somewhere people would just happen to set up anyway.
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This, though:
limitations on tags. You can only have so many
What's the limit? I certainly haven't hit it, and I often think to myself "gosh, that's a long tag list, maybe I should try to consolidate it down".
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Additionally, clicking on a tag name only pulls up the last 100 entries that used that tag. I'm pretty sure there is no way around that.
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It does seem like a lot to me, but then I resisted tags (not knowing why I should care) for some months? years? after support for them was introduced on LJ.
Additionally, clicking on a tag name only pulls up the last 100 entries that used that tag.
You mean you can only skip back that many entries (i.e. 4 times if you're on skip = 20)?
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I have a really close knit group of real life girlfriends who all met via LJ. Every one of us has been blogging here for at least 5 years, and some of us longer than that. (I have about 10,000 entries in total on LJ.) We started a community of 15 women here once and blew through our tag limit in less than two years. At that point, we had the option to consolidate old tags (which should be OUR choice, not LJs and doesn't work anyway because the tag renaming function is dysfunctional), start a second community (which is stupid because we actually PAID for our space for the first one) or just give up.
Those options are unappealing when I could simply take my hosting money elsewhere and go crazy.
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I had no idea. What's the point of bloody tags if it isn't going to bring up the posts one is looking for?
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I think that's change to the past 1,000--not retroactively, however. (ie, when the change happened, it would build from the past 100 unless you went back and retagged.)
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Compare that to WPs five minute install process.
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I think of what LJ offers as a journaling system, as opposed to a blogging platform-- I know its interface is really different from Blogger's or Wordpress's but I consider it fundamentally different from them, not inferior versions of them.
If you're talking about things-Wordpress-does-that-LJ-does-too-but-not-as-well, like the tags thaumata discusses, or basic site-organization things like making its features easier to navigate among, then that makes sense-- but I would shrink from any attempt to reorganize LJ's features along Wordpress's lines. I believe that blogging sites like Blogger and Wordpress operate on a one-to-many broadcasting model, whose intellectual ancestor is print journalism-- it's telling, e.g., that thaumata used the word "column" below to describe the content they might generate-- while LJ's interface supports a more one-to-one communication model, whose intellectual ancestor is the ( ... )
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