I think you're going to find in the long run that it is going to be a real dampener on people's willingness to migrate to DW if this function is never offered. I can tell you *my* desire to purchase a Seed account just dropped significantly, knowing that every community is either going to have to attempt a manual migration (which would be an enormous task for a lot of comms) or start over from scratch.
The precise feeling of community that Dreamwidth is attempting to foster is going to seem like lip service when people are told they'll have to abandon several years' worth of community interaction (all such posts and their comments on LJ) for the sake of OpenID users. OpenID crossfunctionality is all well and good, but when everyone else is deprived of a pretty major feature for the convenience of the OpenID crowd... I'd say the emphasis is being placed on the wrong group of users. I'm thinking specifically of the larger fandom communities on LJ, of which there are many. I'm about to have to go back and tell the mods of several moderate-to-large communities that they're SOL, and I can't imagine the reaction is going to be positive. I would strongly urge you to reconsider this position. I can't think of too many maintainers that would be willing to coerce their members into switching to Dreamwidth by denying them posting access to the existing LJ community, and I certainly don't think it's behavior you would want associated with the service. Thanks, Alexis Carpenter principia at Dreamwidth principia_coh at LiveJournal ----- Sarah wrote: | On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Mikey Grrrl wrote: | <<OH not | being able to import them will basically insure that users will never | migrate to the DW version of the comm. Or am I reading this wrong?>> | | Not to promote unilaterally evil maintainer behavior, but one could | strongly encourage one's community members to migrate to DW community | by limiting posting access to the LJ community. | | Of course, another LJ user could simply create an alternative | community for LJ users to migrate to, but depending on your | community's cohesion and your maintainer-cred, this is may be a viable | option. | | ~Sarah | _______________________________________________ | dw-discuss mailing list | [email protected] | http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
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