I only ask for a simple update page
I know some of you hate micro-blogging, but for me one of its pluses over blogging is the spontaneity of it. In other words, the updater is fast-loading.
As you know I own a dozen blogs, but the thing that puts me off updating in places such as WordPress and (my embarrassingly not-so-secret) Vox is the update page that takes like 5 minutes to load. Formatting tools are handy, but shouldn't be so much that it gets really slow to finally show the update page up. But you don't need all these kind of things in a micro-blog, which would prefer you to just update with one-liner trash instead of pretty, well-thought out entries.
Clients are a blessing, as we also know LJ has clients that are real handy to use, on top of its already fast-loading and convenient update page (with draft saving, something we all wanted once upon a time). I'm quite sure there are clients for other blogging platforms (even universal clients - seen those on some Linux distros, but they're probably kinda buggy) but I'm not really keen on getting more of them.
For the record, long before Twitter began I've already micro-blogged(?) on my Xanga, which nobody really notices. Unfortunately their update page has gotten more cramped in recent times...
As you know I own a dozen blogs, but the thing that puts me off updating in places such as WordPress and (my embarrassingly not-so-secret) Vox is the update page that takes like 5 minutes to load. Formatting tools are handy, but shouldn't be so much that it gets really slow to finally show the update page up. But you don't need all these kind of things in a micro-blog, which would prefer you to just update with one-liner trash instead of pretty, well-thought out entries.
Clients are a blessing, as we also know LJ has clients that are real handy to use, on top of its already fast-loading and convenient update page (with draft saving, something we all wanted once upon a time). I'm quite sure there are clients for other blogging platforms (even universal clients - seen those on some Linux distros, but they're probably kinda buggy) but I'm not really keen on getting more of them.
For the record, long before Twitter began I've already micro-blogged(?) on my Xanga, which nobody really notices. Unfortunately their update page has gotten more cramped in recent times...