They are/were planning on making LJ a myspace clone.
Really, I haven't seen any concrete reason to believe this is true. A lot of people are *claiming* that it's true, but it seems to be based on nothing more than supposition. For the time being, I'm attributing the whole thing to mass hysteria, until and unless someone shows that they're planning on making substantive changes. (I mean, good God, look at all the panic about the incredibly *slight* tweaks they're planning to the user info page. Sheesh.)
They appearantly want to send or make "adult" users go over to their sister type board, but I cant remember the name.
"Vox", IIRC. Again, this seems to be a lot of people panicking for no particularly apparent reason. Nothing that the *LJ* staff has said provides much cause for worry, IMO -- it's just a ton of guesswork and assumptions of secret agendas.
I do think that helping them get their statistics right is probably a good thing -- enabling them to make more informed decisions just makes sense. But I'm sticking to my "tempest in a teapot" opinion until someone points me to something they've said that's more sinister than "most of our users are between 18-25", which is just a statement of (probably correct) fact...
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Date: 2006-06-30 08:49 pm (UTC)Really, I haven't seen any concrete reason to believe this is true. A lot of people are *claiming* that it's true, but it seems to be based on nothing more than supposition. For the time being, I'm attributing the whole thing to mass hysteria, until and unless someone shows that they're planning on making substantive changes. (I mean, good God, look at all the panic about the incredibly *slight* tweaks they're planning to the user info page. Sheesh.)
They appearantly want to send or make "adult" users go over to their sister type board, but I cant remember the name.
"Vox", IIRC. Again, this seems to be a lot of people panicking for no particularly apparent reason. Nothing that the *LJ* staff has said provides much cause for worry, IMO -- it's just a ton of guesswork and assumptions of secret agendas.
I do think that helping them get their statistics right is probably a good thing -- enabling them to make more informed decisions just makes sense. But I'm sticking to my "tempest in a teapot" opinion until someone points me to something they've said that's more sinister than "most of our users are between 18-25", which is just a statement of (probably correct) fact...