Livejournal
Livejournal: A Step to the Side and a Half-Beat Off
Somewhat appropriately on the heels of my last post (not planned, I swear), Dreamwidth's community importer is now open, meaning communities can now be imported whether the maintainer has a paid account or not.
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LiveJournal's quandry is simple. LiveJournal is Russia's most popular blogging platform and plays a key role in the country's Internet ecosphere. LiveJournal has a staggering 1.2 million users in Singapore who primarily use the site for “blogshops”--a local hybrid of blogs and Etsy.com-style e-commerce. However, LiveJournal's American market share has massively declined in the past five years. Six Apart and SUP were simply unable to compete in the post-MySpace era. There was talk in 2011 of Yahoo purchasing SUP; however, Yahoo's current troubles make that transaction seem quite unlikely.
However, longtime LiveJournal users are upset by the changes. LiveJournal recently unveiled a complete redesign that overhauled the service's comments system, emphasized social networking, and set the stage for the upcoming communities blitz. Reaction from longtime users has been overwhelmingly negative--LiveJournal patrons slammed the redesign on the service's official blog.
LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership. The challenge for Petrochenko and other executives at LiveJournal will be redefining the brand's identity in a crowded media marketplace.
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Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth: fanfiction and personal thoughts
FMA Fic: "Mother Arc: Chapter 17", Roy/Ed, PG
Title: Mother Arc: Chapter 17
Author:![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dragonimp
Rating: PG
Genre: Family Saga
Pairing: Roy/Ed
Beta'd by:meredavey
Warnings: None
Summary: It was past time she got to know her son, and to do that—she needed to know just what he was capable of.
Notes: AU movie, part of the "Waiting" thread and the "Mother Arc".
( Why couldn't that old bastard be something simple for a change? )
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Author:
dragonimpRating: PG
Genre: Family Saga
Pairing: Roy/Ed
Beta'd by:
meredaveyWarnings: None
Summary: It was past time she got to know her son, and to do that—she needed to know just what he was capable of.
Notes: AU movie, part of the "Waiting" thread and the "Mother Arc".
( Why couldn't that old bastard be something simple for a change? )
Somewhat appropriately on the heels of my last post (not planned, I swear), Dreamwidth's community importer is now open, meaning communities can now be imported whether the maintainer has a paid account or not.
Account creation is still open as well.
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Account creation is still open as well.
LiveJournal's quandry is simple. LiveJournal is Russia's most popular blogging platform and plays a key role in the country's Internet ecosphere. LiveJournal has a staggering 1.2 million users in Singapore who primarily use the site for “blogshops”--a local hybrid of blogs and Etsy.com-style e-commerce. However, LiveJournal's American market share has massively declined in the past five years. Six Apart and SUP were simply unable to compete in the post-MySpace era. There was talk in 2011 of Yahoo purchasing SUP; however, Yahoo's current troubles make that transaction seem quite unlikely.
However, longtime LiveJournal users are upset by the changes. LiveJournal recently unveiled a complete redesign that overhauled the service's comments system, emphasized social networking, and set the stage for the upcoming communities blitz. Reaction from longtime users has been overwhelmingly negative--LiveJournal patrons slammed the redesign on the service's official blog.
LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership. The challenge for Petrochenko and other executives at LiveJournal will be redefining the brand's identity in a crowded media marketplace.
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Gee LJ, maybe if you stopped sucking and actually paid attention to you user base (y'know, that "small-but-loyal membership"?) your American market share wouldn't have fallen so much.
But I don't think you really care.
Edit: this commet cracked me up: "OIC. They want to make it more "community based". By getting rid of subject lines, which were vital to a huge number of communities. Good luck with that, LJ."
That's about the sum of it.