Thank you, this does help explain a lot, even to a complete technical dunce like myself. (You say so much as 'code' and I start to glaze over - I just don't speak geek, unfortunately.)
This is probably 100% not the right place to put this, but I'll mention it since you mentioned 'hitting a certain number of paid accounts' and designing for a different use, etc, and since people seem to be justifiably concerned that the direction LJ is going in will not be friendly to the fandom users.
I haven't really *used* my DW account in the two years or so that I've had it, for one reason - there's no way to import communities from LJ. My way of using LJ doesn't rest in making a solitary blog post, then waiting for the world to come to me and comment on it - instead, my friends and I have a comm that's more like a 'common room' - we all come to it, and chat away. (One daily thread, many chatty comments.) Actually, very much like the 'neighborhood store', when you put it that way.
We don't want to have to start over from scratch at DW, and we don't want to lose the history we've built in the comm at LJ. (And we're probably not alone in that - I wouldn't be surprised if it's why many users stay put.)
If we could import the comm, I know that I'd be thrilled to convert to DW, and would happily have a paid account with extra icons, and I'm sure many of my friends would as well.
I'm sure there's probably very good reasons why comms can't be imported, but I've just never understood the technical explanations!
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This is probably 100% not the right place to put this, but I'll mention it since you mentioned 'hitting a certain number of paid accounts' and designing for a different use, etc, and since people seem to be justifiably concerned that the direction LJ is going in will not be friendly to the fandom users.
I haven't really *used* my DW account in the two years or so that I've had it, for one reason - there's no way to import communities from LJ. My way of using LJ doesn't rest in making a solitary blog post, then waiting for the world to come to me and comment on it - instead, my friends and I have a comm that's more like a 'common room' - we all come to it, and chat away. (One daily thread, many chatty comments.) Actually, very much like the 'neighborhood store', when you put it that way.
We don't want to have to start over from scratch at DW, and we don't want to lose the history we've built in the comm at LJ. (And we're probably not alone in that - I wouldn't be surprised if it's why many users stay put.)
If we could import the comm, I know that I'd be thrilled to convert to DW, and would happily have a paid account with extra icons, and I'm sure many of my friends would as well.
I'm sure there's probably very good reasons why comms can't be imported, but I've just never understood the technical explanations!