this one got pretty long.

[atrata]

It's been a weird day, full of pain-fueled pseudo-fever-dreams about fandom. Every few hours I'd wake up, stagger to the computer, read comments until I couldn't do it anymore, and then stagger back to bed. But I am better now, and I've got some Thinky Thoughts to share.

In unfinished business from the last post: InsaneJournal is not run by 6A,

Comments

[esteven]

I've had a paid account at JF for some time because they understand fandom.

[twocorpses]

Many of those features are not possible using LJ's code base, and I worry that using it would make us dependent on them for updates and would, to some extent, stick us with their business model, which, I think we agree, is swell for them and bad for fandom.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that because you are NOT stuck with using LJ/6A's business model. I mean, if you just mean offering paid accounts and free accounts okay but eventually getting to the point where ads are needed and corporate sponsorship? There are all sorts of LJ-clone sites out there that DON'T do that. And Scribblit won't do that either.

[trepkos]

I don't quite see how a new structure for the site is going to make it more affordable.

[fair_vatican]

read your post and i must say that i agree on everything you say.

do take care
and i would love to help where ever i can,
so ask away

loves

[atrata]

Are you absolutely sure of this?

Yeah, I am. I was overstating a bit for simplicity's sake, but many of my crazy plans would involve ripping the code apart and putting it back together. Can it be done? Sure. But It's code I didn't write in a language that is (IMO) extremely difficult to understand and maintain. I realize it sounds counter-intuitive, but it will honestly be much faster and easier to build something from the ground up than it would be to rip the LJ code apart and add in a million new features.