Do I Stay or Do I Go?

[eumelia]

LiveJournal, Malware, Interstitial Advertising and You.

Wow.

I'm seriously, seriously unamused.

I don't know.

I have an account on DW: eumelia, but I've been on LJ for five years now.
I have communities that I like.
Peeps I enjoy reading that aren't mirrored.

I know, I know I can still keep this account and move to making the DW a primary one.

*sigh*

Well, my paid account expires in May. I can see what happens then, right?

Comments

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

As soon as DW has to start putting ads on their site to support the cost of extra users, it'll have the exact same problem as LJ I think.

Which assumes that ads are the only way to provide a revenue stream.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Was there an alternative route LJ could ahve gone down?

I figured the revenue from pay-to-use consumers wasn't covering their running costs...

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

For LJ, probably not. But DW was started at a much later moment in Web 2.0 history, and has made a radically different set of assumptions about whom to monetize content from. LJ monetizes its content by selling advertisers access to its users' eyeballs; DW monetizes its content by selling its users ways to upgrade their site experience. Which is why DW paid accounts are pricier than LJ's, and why DW will never offer permanent accounts (and only offered a limited seed accounts for a 48-hour period at the beginning of open beta).

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I always figured LJ became a victom of its own success, and got just too big to be self sustaining.

Which is why I worry about DW. Their business plan works right now, but if a huge number of users switch over...

Mind you, I think the blogging craze has large passed now, and the majority of people have moved on to Facebook and Twitter.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

We have reached the point where I can no longer comment intelligently, other than to say, yes, LJ was a victim of its own success. DW, I know, has invested far more heavily in servers and hosting for them than LJ did, and from the get-go. But I commend you to co-DW owner Denise's posts on Web 2.0 (http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/tag/web+2.0"); they are all fascinating (she used to work for LJ, actually).

I think I agree about the majority of people re: blogging, though I personally feel very differently. It is impossible to have a substantive discussion on Twitter, for starters.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think it's rather sad that so many people have left journalling sights for the facebook/twitters. But. *shrugs* Such is life.