Attacking your APIs (at least on paper) sounds like fun. :-) (Whether I attack them for real will depend on language, time, and any relevant policies at my ISP's end.)
While I'm under no illusions that everyone is going to use CommYou instead of LJ, I *am* planning on doing some things better.)
It sounds like you're trying to do something a little different than LJ. People don't need to choose just one. While LJ has communities, its strength is the individual journal and the services that go with it. LJ is alt.fan.me. CommYou is more like a topical newsgroup -- at least as I understand it so far. LJ centers around people; CommYou centers around conversations. (Conventional blogs center around topics filtered by authors.)
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While I'm under no illusions that everyone is going to use CommYou instead of LJ, I *am* planning on doing some things better.)
It sounds like you're trying to do something a little different than LJ. People don't need to choose just one. While LJ has communities, its strength is the individual journal and the services that go with it. LJ is alt.fan.me. CommYou is more like a topical newsgroup -- at least as I understand it so far. LJ centers around people; CommYou centers around conversations. (Conventional blogs center around topics filtered by authors.)