rivkat: Beta request; more on LJ - We should generally structure our institutions to support behavior we like and discourage behavior we don’t. With respect to comments, I think LJ is not following that rule, at least as many of us have understood commenting. -
missyjack: a queer and pleasant danger - peek-a-boo - Fandom has changed. LJ fandom has long held the conceit that we were the centre of fandom, or at the least the centre of creative fandom. That is no longer true (if it ever was). As an example LOST was a show where there was much more creative fannish activity happening in the broader blogosphere than here on LJ. And that’s true of many shows esp those deemed not slash worthy like Mad Men or Sons of Anarchy - both shows where my fandom life is off-LJ on media sites and personal blogs. . . . The curtain has been pulled back, we can’t keep just keep pretending we're invisible. We need to be proactive in how we run our activities here -
inlovewithnight: this is edging perilously close to meta - Yes. I've seen people remark a lot about how much fandom (meaning LJ-based) has slowed down. Well, of course it has: the picspams have moved to Tumblr, the in-the-moment responses and one-off squee are on Twitter. What's still primarily on the journaling sites themselves is the fic, and with AO3 potentially signaling a return to archives (though who knows), maybe that won't be necessary for much longer, either. -
