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Official Geographic communities
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All new members are automatically subscribed to an official, moderated community that represents their geographic area.
Full description of the ideaThe idea is that there will be several geographic communites; say UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc. These would be moderated
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For a new user from the UK they will first need to discover what communities are, then they will need to search for UK communities. They will get a list of 384 communities - many of which are of limited interest and have few members(oddly the LJ "official" Independent sponsored community doesn't seem to appear in the list).
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The other bits you mentioned about the new user flow not being great are good points, and that could probably be addressed as well, somewhere. The New User's Guide to LiveJournal, or something.
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The spotlighting is better than it was.
I would be interested to know how many people create an lj and then quit quite shortly afterwards because they just don't get it.
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This is at odds with "All new members are automatically subscribed" and with "It would be an opt out issue".
If beginners are so clueless, they would also have problems figuring out how to get out of these communities they never wanted to part of in the first place...
LJ feels US-centric because of news post and certain feature sets. (The sheer numbers of US users might play a part in that too. ;) ) The existence of official communities couldn't change that. I see LJ as interest-based groups, and rarely are those interests strictly geographical.
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I doubt that. I have a few people from my country on my F-list, yes, but none is from my area, and there is noone that I know personally. The vast majority of my Friends is neither in my country, nor do they have the same native language.
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Precisely. There are a considerable number of new/clueless users who think that the official journals that are already added automatically (news, spotlight, lj_maintenance) and the entries posted to them are random, evil strangers spamming their friends pages.
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http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/855613.html
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/750899.html
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/625369.html
I think changing the interest search to make sure that an interest search does not shortchange the searcher (I believe deleted journals and communities get counted but not displayed when the search tool is running, so the search tool thinks it's returned the first 500 but the searcher only sees the 300-odd that are not deleted), and to push the most active communities and journals to the top of the search, would help immensely.
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