On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Mikey Grrrl wrote: > I'm not into taking control away from a poster, but again (and > somehow I do not get the feeling that anyone but Lije is truly > understanding the seriousness this issue poses to communities) > without being able to port a comm over in toto, the community will > NOT follow. At least not the ones I am active in.
Trust me, both Mark and I are aware of the problem. We're also aware of the problem that people don't *want* to authorize us to move their content, and the problem that it's impossible to collect approval from everyone who's ever posted to a particular community, and the problem that OpenID accounts currently can't post to communities and to make them able to do it would be an incredible amount of work, and the problem that ... Well, you get the picture. None of these problems are completely insurmountable. However, they aren't going to get fixed by open beta, which is 21 days away at this point. They aren't going to get fixed immediately after, either. It will require very careful planning and execution. One thing I think people are having problems with is the persistent belief that we *want* people to abandon LJ for Dreamwidth. We are obviously happy if people choose to! But that isn't our primary goal here. We don't think "LJ" and "Dreamwidth" is an either/or; we think it's an "and". We are doing incredible amounts of work to make sure that people can move over and still continue to participate on LJ, and we expect that the majority of our userbase will continue to maintain accounts on both services for at least the forseeable future. Yes, maintaining a community's continuity of posts and history is important, if that community migrates from being primarily LJ-centric to primarily DW-centric. But the issues involved in it are very, very big and not easily solveable, and we've deferred it for now, because we can't fix everything at once. We won't be able to even begin to approach it for a while. We are not expecting people to pick up stakes and move entirely to Dreamwidth overnight. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming April 30! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
