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LJ has by far the strongest network effect of any blogging service -- Twitter is the first thing to really compete with them on that, and is pretty close. LJ a
by blasdel 18y ago
LJ has by far the strongest network effect of any blogging service -- Twitter is the first thing to really compete with them on that, and is pretty close.
LJ also had an enourmous first-mover advantage, but became stagnant after a while, and then were driven into the ground by SixApart. Instead of improving the service, SA made a tone-deaf clone (Vox), and began directly antagonizing their entire userbase.
- gaius 18y agoThere are a bunch of very obvious things that LJ could have done. For example, it does photo hosting, but there's no way to link a photo with users, like Facebook's tagging. It has a calendar and to-do lists, but has no event planning features (again like FB does). It definitely stagnated, and has definitely annoyed its users, but there's enormous inertia, since people want to be where their friends are. If a migration off happens, tho', for the same reason, it'll be brutally quick.
- thesethings 18y agoI'd compare Livejournal to Tumblr more than any other contemporary tool. They both recognize public/private on a per-post basis (other software makes you all in or all out w/public-ness).