Part of which being "...and yes, I realise others will be here for icons, or graphics, or videos which are different, and equally valid use cases which deserve time and effort. But text is, very probably, still the core use-case of LJ."
Is that an invalid assumption? I know there are whole RP, gaming, Singapore blog-shopping use cases that I know little of, but surely the core use case is still reading/commenting/blogging, which yes, is high engagement and given the history and volume of the site possibly always will be.
Though in light of your comments here I'm now thinking more in terms of news-reader 2.0 as the possible end result than yet another FB clone. My total lack of Cyrillic leaves me pretty unclear when looking at some of the mockups.
I think a lot of the angst is less they're trying to make changes, but more the manner in which they're doing so.
Oh, and feel free to ignore this entirely if you don't want to get dragged into another distraction, but I'm interested in this stuff too. :)
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Part of which being "...and yes, I realise others will be here for icons, or graphics, or videos which are different, and equally valid use cases which deserve time and effort. But text is, very probably, still the core use-case of LJ."
Is that an invalid assumption? I know there are whole RP, gaming, Singapore blog-shopping use cases that I know little of, but surely the core use case is still reading/commenting/blogging, which yes, is high engagement and given the history and volume of the site possibly always will be.
Though in light of your comments here I'm now thinking more in terms of news-reader 2.0 as the possible end result than yet another FB clone. My total lack of Cyrillic leaves me pretty unclear when looking at some of the mockups.
I think a lot of the angst is less they're trying to make changes, but more the manner in which they're doing so.
Oh, and feel free to ignore this entirely if you don't want to get dragged into another distraction, but I'm interested in this stuff too. :)