Not many people noticed the ads on
news on the post around when they were introduced, but a quite a few have been noticing the new front page ads on the latest
news post.
brad posts about being against ads on the front page, as well. But, as we all know, there are some issues you just can't win.
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I also appended the story of The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs to the post, as it seemed appropriate.
I don't really expect he'll unscreen the post, but at least he should get the point.
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One of the points, if I remember well, is that he/they/LJ wanted to be able to do more, to grow bigger and that required more money, more employees, etc. Well, they did but at what price?
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Brad had similar arguments about LJ from the first day I worked with him, back in 2000. The problem wasn't that it sucked up his time. The problem was that:
1> He couldn't let go and delegate.
2> He didn't play well with others, pissing off the great majority of open source developers who came forward to help.
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What you describe is exactly the kind of symptoms I predicted would happen as a result of LJ's gradual shrinking of regular users. This shrinking is probably even more pronounced for people like you who have a lot of old users on your friends list, and who probably don't add new users to your list at a rate high enough to make up for older accounts going inactive / less active over time.
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Trust me on this one, Wordpress layout theming is just as addictive, and given WP's popularity, is a hobby you could actually make money at. I'm very sold on switching everything to Wordpress now, and now I'm online at my new place I can start catching up on stuff...
(theme Sandbox is my current favourite, it's like Expressive, but more flexible)
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I might also add that so far I haven't noticed any lessening in activity in my flist. On the contrary, the fandom is actually on an upswing for the first time in several years.
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I didn't renew after the takeover and I come here less and less, usually only to stick my .02 on the news and design etc posts.
But honestly, who really didn't see this?
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Brad's worried that this ads on the homepage thing is gonna make Paid users stop renewing. Hate to break it to him, but people have been deciding to let their time run out for months now, and ads on the homepage is lower on the list of reasons than he thinks.
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