Correction and some Wired articles of interest
anildash kindly corrects me on Vox having/not having communities in the future: "That being said, I'm not saying whether Vox will or won't have communities -- as far as I know, we haven't announced either way yet. My guess is we're going to just listen to the feedback people submit and judge by that, same as with everything else
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I think much of the discussion would have centered around the affiliate link stuff. Whether or not paid users would get to put their own affiliate links in as opposed to Six Apart's (like they do on Vox), etc. It's possible that at some point, we'll be able to test out these theories--if Amazon affiliate links prove a decent enough revenue stream on Vox, moving the ability over to LJ would become more attractive. I guess there might also be people who, being paid users, would consider the Amazon placements an advertisement and want to be exempt. And sure, you could say that the putting up of the Amazon book stuff was the user's choice and that their beef should really be with the user. But then again, that was always the argument about Basic users being exposed to ads on Plus users' journals, soooo.
As for YouTube, yeah, mostly about the lack of placeholders upon release; it was kind of short sighted to release the videos without them.
And when the placeholders came, they took up the same amount of space as the videos, which took away one of the advantages of image placeholders. There's reasons for that, yeah.
Some people didn't want YouTube embedded at all; they didn't see why people couldn't just link to the video on YouTube and didn't want people cluttering up their friends list with the embedded ones.
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YouTube imbedding is what caused me to install Flashblock. And I can't be the only person who did.
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