Nostalgia: LiveJournal's Greatest Fuck-Ups.

[stewardess]

Since July, 2007, when I decided to migrate from LiveJournal to the bullshit-free land of InsaneJournal, folks have asked me, "Hey, Stewardess, aren't you worried the majority of fandom/porn writers/lolcat communities will stay at LiveJournal

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[caersidi]

You forgot a few options on this list.

I use LJ primarily because this is where my friends are and they are not moving. It's not apathy on their part as just not being bothered by these changes to the degree of leaving.

Plus, six years of history isn't something I am willing to jettison.

I think the Interest Search blocking may have been quietly fixed in that there is a new ticky box 'safe search filtering'. Haven't tested it though.

[lady_deirdre]

Same here.

My friends are here, and not (or not active) on IJ. The communities on LJ that I read and enjoy most (discworld and metaquotes) do not exist on IJ or are hardly active. Most of IJ, as far as I can see, is about fanfic and role-playing, two things I am hardly interested in.

So there's very little for me there.

[caersidi]

That was pretty much the way it was on GJ as well. It does seem that communities about topics such as books, movies, various topical issues (like livejournal_uk and support communities have remained here. Occult and pagan communities that interest me also seem to have remained firmly on LJ.

I use IJ as a mirror/archive but in the near year I've been over there mainly it does seem to have focused on fanfic/roleplaying.

[pferde]

woah! Hello!

[malakijr]

'Tis why I am staying as well.

[stewardess]

I'm focusing here on customer service (the lack of it), not reasons people have remained at LiveJournal. As I said in my post, I mentioned only a few of the reasons; there are dozens, and most people are affected by a combination of them.

Among my friends remaining at LJ, I perceive number three, lack of an appealing option, as the greatest factor. But staying at LiveJournal because other people are staying at LiveJournal will be a non-issue eventually. There are many alternatives to choose from now, and there will be more. At some point, one will become a stand-out for fandom. Then people will bail out of LJ as quickly as they bailed from usenet.

[caersidi]

A non-issue for your friends perhaps. I guess we have different views on what to expect from customer service in terms of a relationship with a business.

I also think that fandom is much more diverse than it was back in usenet days or more fragmented if you like.

Having said that I don't consider myself these days as part of fandom in the collective sense if I ever properly was.