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

[sally_maria]

What I miss most about LJ are the people - it hit a brilliant sweet spot for both personal connections between a RL but geographically spread friends group and fannish connections. People have fallen away, changed to posting on FB or on Tumblr, and while I am active in both places, neither feels like home, the way LJ did in my first few years here.

Social platforms are always going to be largely fuelled by the people on them, but none of today's offer the opportunity for filtered and detailed discussion that LJ did back in the day.