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Livejournal, to me, was a fusion of three things: a simple HTML editor (aka posts) + a time-sorted view and access controls + discoverability through your netwo
by ethbr0 5y ago
Livejournal, to me, was a fusion of three things: a simple HTML editor (aka posts) + a time-sorted view and access controls + discoverability through your network.
The things that made it different than Facebook were (1) that they didn't screw around with your feed (it was your friends' posts, sorted by date), (2) that discoverability and networking was user intentional and exploratory (pull, rather than suggested / push), & (3) access controls were simple, understandable, and obeyed user intent.
- vram22 5y agoI enjoyed LJ for a few years (my first blog, 2005-2008). Wrote a good deal about startups that I explored as a user in that period (this was the APG era, where APG stands for After Paul Graham, meaning after he wrote his early influential essays about startups and his launching YC - called Startup School at the time, IIRC) and other software topics. But later, after a Russian group acquired LJ: https://jugad.livejournal.com/174406.html https://jugad.livejournal.com/174406.html (2nd post on the subject, there was a previous one on the same blog, IIRC). Interestingly, some years later, I mentioned the same point, on my next blog or on Twitter, and then suddenly my old blog became accessible again (it was not, for a while, after the above-linked incident).
- dr_dshiv 5y agoWhy can’t we have this on Facebook? What could fb do to enable this kind of experience for those that want it? Not that they would, but I’d really like to have a vision of what they should do.