It's an Empty Place

[danalwyn]

Went back to LJ's homepage for the first time in a while. I note the new look, and I've got to admit it looks better than it once did, but it doesn't seem to be doing much in the way of improving the content on the site. The problem with LJ was never really the appearance, it was that everyone on it just sort of left for a whole host of reasons. The way it looks and acts only papers over the fact that most of the non-ONTD communities are sort of dead.

Well, I guess of those two there's only one problem you can really fix. Who knows?

Comments

[danalwyn]

And tumblr communities are ... well, for lack of a better word, weird. It's hard to have a conversation there. Or so I find. Some people seem to do quite well at it.

[silverjackal]

I've occasionally had a look at Tumblr and I've always been baffled by the sheer visual *noise*. I also don't grasp how actual communication is supposed to occur -- it just seems like people like things or reblog them endlessly.

Possibly this is yet more proof that I am old and curmudgeonly, but I prefer to be able to address whoever I am interacting with, not just act as an echo chamber.

[danalwyn]

It doesn't seem very friendly to ongoing conversation. I mean, it's hard to reply to something that someone is saying, in such a way that other people will join in.

It caters to a different sort of audience I guess. Experience in the past tells me that most people don't want a conversation, they just want their opinion out there without counter-balancing. At the same time it would explain why a lot of people don't seem happy with Tumblr - but there's nowhere really on the internet where they've managed to get the conversation thing down. Until someone figures that out, Tumblr may be what we've got.