LJ is shrinking
Aug. 8th, 2007 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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sclerotic_rings: by all available measures, LJ's active membership has been shrinking since April 2005; for instance, the 'updated in last 30 days' count is down to about 1 million now, from a peak of 1.5 million two years ago.
It doesn't look to me like this is the result of any one incident; the downwards trend is fairly gradual without any big bumps (though if you look closely at the 'last 7 days' data, you can see a power outage in November '06). It might well be that you'd see the same trend at other blog sites, for all I know, but whatever the cause it can't be making 6A very happy.
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It doesn't look to me like this is the result of any one incident; the downwards trend is fairly gradual without any big bumps (though if you look closely at the 'last 7 days' data, you can see a power outage in November '06). It might well be that you'd see the same trend at other blog sites, for all I know, but whatever the cause it can't be making 6A very happy.
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Date: 2007-08-08 12:23 am (UTC)If 6A aren't happy with the decline, they should figure out how they're managing to piss their customers off, and quit doing it. That's just normal business sense.
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Date: 2007-08-08 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-08 01:53 am (UTC)LJ (and other blog/journal sites) started as text, they remain primarily text (voice posts and photo scrapbooks and video imbedding notwithstanding) or at least text-based. MySpace and FaceBook, as far as I can tell, are places for semi-literate cretins to post TXT-SPK captions on photos they took with their cell phones. (I may be mistaken, I don't frequent either establishment as my first impressions were sufficiently... unimpressed.)
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Date: 2007-08-08 04:14 pm (UTC)The blogging features of MySpace are poor at best. MySpace is a convenient way to produce a circa-1997 website: pictures of your dog and your friends, horrid backgrounds, no attractive web design, and no actual content. There are "forums" of a sort, but MySpace doesn't encourage sites with any structure or coherence.
That's probably why it became popular: in LJ-land you have to be literate and smart enough to put together a coherent paragraph. MySpace is more like sitting around in the mall; other people stop by, say hi, and comment on who you're with.
I don't think LJ is going anywhere in the long-term, unless it's eventually superseded by a service that's primarily text-based. I don't know about everyone else, but the text is really why I'm here.
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Date: 2007-08-08 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-08 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 10:44 pm (UTC)I think you've hit the baby on the head. Blogging is no longer *teh* thing to do and so a lot of the hangers-on have lost interest or are jumping ship for the next big thing (which is still a moving target). People who really got into blogging or are the more professional/contentful bloggers are still around and will be for quite some time yet until something comes along to kill blogs.
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Date: 2007-08-08 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-08 02:29 pm (UTC)Sh*t.
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Date: 2007-08-08 11:35 pm (UTC)