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FandomSecrets moving to DW
Yet more unwelcome changes to LJ's commenting system, which has resulted in FandomSecrets moving to DW.
As with the previous unwanted, largely protested change, it doesn't appear to be affecting custom S2 comment pages. But unfortunately for communities, S2 comment pages have proven to be detrimental for many of them, and workarounds are getting more and more ridiculous and painful for moderators. And now this latest change is all but forcing communities to either change over to a comment system that still hasn't shaken off its beta bugs but doesn't take several minutes to load -- if loads at all -- or put up with it if they want to remain on LJ.
Did LJ's developers fail to predict that this particular change would be the final straw, or they were hoping for that reaction? As
technophile pointed out, LJ has been outright hostile to fandom for not months, but years. It might very well be that the only communities that are desired by LJ's owners are non-fandom ones like
ontd. Truthfully, I don't believe it's a deliberate push, merely a serendipitous outcome for them in their self-image, if not their ledgers.
In any case, with FS moving, will this be the necessary push to start fandom moving off LJ?
As with the previous unwanted, largely protested change, it doesn't appear to be affecting custom S2 comment pages. But unfortunately for communities, S2 comment pages have proven to be detrimental for many of them, and workarounds are getting more and more ridiculous and painful for moderators. And now this latest change is all but forcing communities to either change over to a comment system that still hasn't shaken off its beta bugs but doesn't take several minutes to load -- if loads at all -- or put up with it if they want to remain on LJ.
Did LJ's developers fail to predict that this particular change would be the final straw, or they were hoping for that reaction? As
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In any case, with FS moving, will this be the necessary push to start fandom moving off LJ?
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But if my suspicions are correct and SUP kicks their reinvention of LJ into a "FaceBook for hipsters", things are going to get to the point where SUP might actually start actively attempting to chase off communities which aren't "trendy and hip". If/when that happens, fandom won't have any choice except to move, whether their friends are still glued to LJ or not. It'll become a strictly blogging site again, but since most users really don't blog all that much (in favour of microblogging via Twitter, FB, or in the case of fandom, Plurk) it's a losing proposition for LJ.