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Statistics: New Users Per Day

Jun 24, 2006 11:37

One of the assertions I see a lot in dissatisfied news and other official community posts (and sometimes might even have made) is when things get dissatisfactory, people will move to GreatestJournal. Since both LJ and GJ give us the statistics on new users per day, I thought I'd test that hypothesis out.

( Behold, graphs! )

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A Few Rambling Ideas zorkfox June 24 2006, 19:24:48 UTC

I personally have a couple of GJ accounts and a couple of LJ accounts. I use them for different things that I don't always want people who know me here to find out about. (Also, I confess that I like the idea of 2,000 user icons, even though I could NEVER NEVER fill up all the slots. Even when I try to make icons as fast as I can, I couldn't fill it up... so, that's not a selling point for me [that is, it wouldn't get me to switch], but it IS kind of cool.)

Another feature of GJ that attracts me are the testimonials. It's fun to leave uplifting comments on your friend's journal. I also like the large amount of image storage space available. One of my GJ accounts has a lot of pictures and I chose to use their service because, at the time I created it, even permanent account holders here at LJ didn't have much space for images.

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas kunzite1 June 24 2006, 19:42:55 UTC

to address the userpics thing:
you could pay up for 2 months, hack an array into the entry function of s2 that has a bunch of urls that searches for an html tag that you put at the beginning of your entry text that has no visual rendering, and then inserts that image into where the userpic would be.

you host this off-site at a free place such as photobucket or GJ, and now you have a bunch of userpics.

photobucket would prolly be better because you can control the filenames there and swap 'em out as you wish.

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas foxfirefey June 24 2006, 19:45:01 UTC

But what about comments, kunzite1? What is the point if I can't have an offensive icon to comment with for every possible contigency on LJ!

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas kunzite1 June 24 2006, 19:47:15 UTC

i knowingly excluded comments from my comment because the comment didn't pertain to comments and not even comments in the code would be able to let you comment in comments with those userpics for your comments, so, those userpics that you wish to comment with in your comments would have to be uploaded to your account so that you can use those userpics in your comments that you choose to comment with.

>.>

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas foxfirefey June 24 2006, 19:51:07 UTC

Seriously, though, few people can hack S2. Even trying to learn S2 is a pain in the ass, and almost impossible if you haven't coded before, also difficult if you don't understand Object Oriented paradigms. The manual is outdated like whoa--looks to last have been updated in 2003--and not meant to service those uninitiated to geekery. So in order to really get familiar with the core layer and how the layouts function, you need to read the source code.

This is not a simple task you're talking about here, unless you're already an S2 whiz! So saying "you could" is an exaggeration, UNLESS an easy to implement hack already exists in a how-to community.

Or am I wrong?

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas kunzite1 June 24 2006, 19:53:06 UTC

you are 100% correct in all of your statements.

such an issue could be alleviated if you ask someone who is well-versed in the language to help. :D

i've seen similar methods used for other functions.

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas zorkfox June 24 2006, 21:24:36 UTC

Hee, hee, heeee! I love this kind of stuff. It's not something I would ever think to do because I don't need it (I can't even fill up the 132 icons I have now), but I love thinking on the sly. :) (I didn't know you could keep your customizations after your paid time expires, though in retrospect, I should have suspected it.)

Re: A Few Rambling Ideas kunzite1 June 24 2006, 22:45:25 UTC

you can definitely keep your customizations after the paid time expires.
you can use the wizard to change options.
if you switch to a different layout and then back, you will be unable to recover your previous customizations.
if you switch to a different layout and then back and you named the style to something other than "wizard-layout name" you will be able to recover your previous customizations.

you can only recover your previous customizations if you follow the above instructions before your paid time expires and then you re-up again.

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