La Mort de Livejournal

[author_by_night]

So I had a conversation the other day about what's really changing (possibly killing, depending on your viewpoint) LJ, and honestly, I feel like everyone has different opinions. (Including me, hence the conversation I had.)

So I decided to create a poll on what's really going on, if anything. You don't have to still really be into LJ to participate - I'd like everyone's opinion.


[Poll #1971640][Poll #1971640]



I have made the results viewable only to me, so dish away. I'm also allowing anonymous comments as  you can't participate in polls if you don't have an account, and even if you do I realize you may not want to share your thoughts with everyone, especially if it does relate to drama.  I probably will make a follow-up post, but I won't name names, unless you want me to.

Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Also I love livejournal for its ability to discuss.

This is really where I find joy in Livejournal. It's difficult to follow long text-based conversations on Tumblr, and 140 characters just don't cut it for discussion.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

This. If LiveJournal has one thing going for it, it's the long-form discussions. I don't think there's another platform out there that's so well-tailored to it. I'm on Twitter, but I hate when people try to discuss difficult, nuanced issues on there: it's about the worst place to do it. Facebook isn't much better, and it always seems like a busy, noisy place. Tumblr, being designed for images/photos, just can't hack it: it is SO HARD to keep a discussion going on there, and it can clog up your feed. I mean, bad stuff happens on LJ (some people are just determined to be jerks), but the design fosters discussion.

Who knows? Maybe LJ will have a revival as people realize that there's a social site out there that's designed for in-depth discussion.

Sometimes I think it would help if I just went and looked for new friends on LJ. There's still people here, just not everybody I remember.