I've been seriously considering switching to my own site. I've got WordPress set up there, I'll be doing most of my comic related material there, and I really don't have much else in my "personal life" to post on LJ anymore.
Well, there's been a lot of networking technology developed since when I first was on LJ that makes going off solo a lot more possible than it originally was, while still keeping your network'o'friends.
There's RSS feeds now--if you did it on your own site, I could subscribe directly to it. There's OpenID--if you did it on your own site, you could probably find a way to use OpenID to let LJ people post and keep their verified LJ identities. All I would need to do is figure out a way to do friends-only via OpenID and I'd be set. Maybe a few other things, but I'm a technical person. I'm pretty sure I could figure out a way to make the transition between the operations of my site and the operations of LJ pretty seamless.
RSS feeds suck, though. I can't just reply at LJ and have it get back to you. I'd have to click on a link in your post to reply at your website. That sucks.
I think it sucks in general that so many kids these days are so numb to ads. I'm hoping the only ad-supported LJs I miss out on (since I won't be hanging around them I suspect) are angsty, whiny LJ-drama-inducing teenagers that I have no intention of hanging around anyway. :-) You know, they kind of folk you usually find on MySpace. :-)
Some places give useful ads, and when I'm searching for products on Google I do click on the sponsored ads a bunch.
But the websites that give useful ads are generally much more...focused in demographics that I fit into? LJ is very broad. For instance, I like writing. You know the people who pay for writing advertisements? Scammers and vanity presses. Irony is looking at a writer's advocacy page warning about scams that's funded by ads, and the ads are all for the people their warning about.
I'm pretty sure I told you this before, but there's a way I would accept ads on LJ, and that's by opt-in. I want the people who want that level to opt in to seeing ads all over the site, rather than opt-in to having ads on their page. The current proposal does not jive with me.
I can see why they'd want to do it the current way, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. And I think I have the right--I have two paid accounts and a few paid communities
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It's just... I'd miss you guys... sniff! :(
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There's RSS feeds now--if you did it on your own site, I could subscribe directly to it. There's OpenID--if you did it on your own site, you could probably find a way to use OpenID to let LJ people post and keep their verified LJ identities. All I would need to do is figure out a way to do friends-only via OpenID and I'd be set. Maybe a few other things, but I'm a technical person. I'm pretty sure I could figure out a way to make the transition between the operations of my site and the operations of LJ pretty seamless.
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I think it sucks in general that so many kids these days are so numb to ads. I'm hoping the only ad-supported LJs I miss out on (since I won't be hanging around them I suspect) are angsty, whiny LJ-drama-inducing teenagers that I have no intention of hanging around anyway. :-) You know, they kind of folk you usually find on MySpace. :-)
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They're the only way I can find out about cool things!
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But the websites that give useful ads are generally much more...focused in demographics that I fit into? LJ is very broad. For instance, I like writing. You know the people who pay for writing advertisements? Scammers and vanity presses. Irony is looking at a writer's advocacy page warning about scams that's funded by ads, and the ads are all for the people their warning about.
I'm pretty sure I told you this before, but there's a way I would accept ads on LJ, and that's by opt-in. I want the people who want that level to opt in to seeing ads all over the site, rather than opt-in to having ads on their page. The current proposal does not jive with me.
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But I can still see why they would do it that way.
Remember the "freerider problem" in econ?
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