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Well, during a little downtime today, took a look at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lj_2008, SUP's 100-day plan,
Hopeful:
- They have Brad excited again. I get the feeling that he left LJ pretty frustrated/bored/jaded, so it's good to see him excited about something LJ-related again. He had sold LJ to SixApart to focus on the engineering, but maybe he gave too much management power away? Especially since he's signing on not as an engineer but on the management level. (But at the same time, hopefully at a level that doesn't have to deal with daily tech support emails). I actually know nothing about Brad, so this is mostly me building castles in the air.
- They seem willing to listen, and they've put in specific channels to address that. (Advisory Board, etc.) They are changing the tone of the LJ management to be more community-focused.
- They are aware of the out-standing issues in the LJ community
- LJ will remain US-based.
Eyebrow:
- Unclear is the specific role/power of the Advisory Board. The wording seems to say, "sure, we'll listen to you, but we don't have to follow your suggestions". Which opens the Advisory Board to just be a way to redirect community foment.
- Corporate tone. More than that, Russian corporate tone. In the "we will not give you any specifics" sort of way. Also in the "we will focus on business interests in the future" sort of way.
- Development focus: Making flagging better? Making widgets and other things that turn LJ into a more common, run-of-the-mill social networking site? Oops, I mean a social "discovery" site. The things that they say they will improve are non-exciting.
- No clear vision. I guess I didn't realize how important Brad's vision was until we lost it. For example, he's the one who kept LJ ad-free for so long. And it's the original, most basic structure that I've appreciated for so long. Or deciding to pull off the Directory search function to focus on the server backend memecache stuff... It might be that I just miss the feeling of the old days where there weren't all these layers of management between the users and the engineers, where I can just imagine a couple of post-college guys fiddling in a basement of servers, but now the management seems even further removed.
- Communication barrier. This might contribute to the appearance of vague-ness and hand-wavy-ness. They have a different way of communicating. (It's like me talking to Chinese relatives. You have to start vague and work your way slowing into the details. Or the details are sort of... assumed)
- Sketchy background of SUP overlords.
It's times like this when I wish there was alj_backend for this sort of stuff. Right now, it can either go very well or go to Russia in a handbasket. Hrm.
lj_2008, SUP's 100-day plan, Hopeful:
- They have Brad excited again. I get the feeling that he left LJ pretty frustrated/bored/jaded, so it's good to see him excited about something LJ-related again. He had sold LJ to SixApart to focus on the engineering, but maybe he gave too much management power away? Especially since he's signing on not as an engineer but on the management level. (But at the same time, hopefully at a level that doesn't have to deal with daily tech support emails). I actually know nothing about Brad, so this is mostly me building castles in the air.
- They seem willing to listen, and they've put in specific channels to address that. (Advisory Board, etc.) They are changing the tone of the LJ management to be more community-focused.
- They are aware of the out-standing issues in the LJ community
- LJ will remain US-based.
Eyebrow:
- Unclear is the specific role/power of the Advisory Board. The wording seems to say, "sure, we'll listen to you, but we don't have to follow your suggestions". Which opens the Advisory Board to just be a way to redirect community foment.
- Corporate tone. More than that, Russian corporate tone. In the "we will not give you any specifics" sort of way. Also in the "we will focus on business interests in the future" sort of way.
- Development focus: Making flagging better? Making widgets and other things that turn LJ into a more common, run-of-the-mill social networking site? Oops, I mean a social "discovery" site. The things that they say they will improve are non-exciting.
- No clear vision. I guess I didn't realize how important Brad's vision was until we lost it. For example, he's the one who kept LJ ad-free for so long. And it's the original, most basic structure that I've appreciated for so long. Or deciding to pull off the Directory search function to focus on the server backend memecache stuff... It might be that I just miss the feeling of the old days where there weren't all these layers of management between the users and the engineers, where I can just imagine a couple of post-college guys fiddling in a basement of servers, but now the management seems even further removed.
- Communication barrier. This might contribute to the appearance of vague-ness and hand-wavy-ness. They have a different way of communicating. (It's like me talking to Chinese relatives. You have to start vague and work your way slowing into the details. Or the details are sort of... assumed)
- Sketchy background of SUP overlords.
It's times like this when I wish there was a
lj_backend for this sort of stuff. Right now, it can either go very well or go to Russia in a handbasket. Hrm.
