Re: [OT] Grumbling about LJ (was Re: H Potter spells)

In urp, trin wrote in response to Jymn's reply to Carl:

And that is my *biggest* gripe with LJ - once it gets over
50 comments there's *no* sensible way to read the comments.
I tend to give up at that point.

And tracking discussions themselves is more of a pain than I
can be bothered with more often than not.

Though tracking discussions[1] is easier now that they've
brought in the tracking feature (the pushpin symbol).

I hadn't noticed it, thank you for bring it to my attention.

And for immediacy, if you drive by a bit later, you've
missed it.

Not really. Like Ggroups, at least with it being long-term
web-based, the conversation's still there in 7+ years time ($circumstance
permitting, obviously) or so, when you trip over the thread.
The difference being between Ggroups and LJ is that I think
with Ggroups (and lonnnnng retention newsserver - such as
Pipex), some of the newbies who don't quite realise how it
works can end up posting to threads years old; whereas with
LJ, it tends to be more noticeable when the date is, and so
less stuff is trawled up from years before.

As long as they quote sufficient for context, would this be a problem?

I am wondering how the use of tags has influenced the posting
in older entries on LJ, though I'm not sure the use of tags
is widespread enough that it'd make much of a dent in the
trying to find things stakes, iyswim.

Just wait, Google will index lj, locked entries and all.

Of course, the major difference between an ancient discussion
being resurrected on Usenet, and a discussion being
resurrected on LJ is that everyone reading the group is
likely to get the new message on Usenet, whereas only those
still subscribed to the thread will see that the discussion's
been resurrected on LJ. I reckon that if LJ removed the limit
on how many entries you can track, there'd be a marked
increase in the continuation of older discussions.

That could be, though I still find the format of some comments threaded and
some threaded elsewhere to be a pain, at least with a newsreader type format
threading would be more easily followed.

Actually, that's an interesting point; usenet is based
around communities; LJ is based around individuals. (Both
broad statements, I know).

I'll add my (broad) agreement to the comments already posted.

I think I tried to disagree with you (both) ^up there^, but
here, I (broadly) agree with you (both).

<G>
Carl, we got something wrong ;~)

<snip>

Room for a rival?

I don't know as anything LJesque'd actually be what I suspect
you're aiming at though (yes, I'm conclusion jumping).

The last thing I'm contemplating at the moment is attempting to write a web
2.0 app
I do use lj, mainly to keep up with a few friends, though I do plan on
getting back to keeping a journal of my own, that will be on hardware I
control rather than anything like lj.

<snip>
[1] I did wonder how significant it was that I used
conversations instead of discussions when I first typed that sentence out.
</ponder>

The term does seem apt for lj, wheras usenet can have both IFYSWIM.

Jymn


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