On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:24 AM, RLS wrote: > Correction (or, what I meant to say was...) > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Lije Carpenter > <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, I haven't been around since Dreamwidth was a mere gleam in >> Denise and Mark's eyes, nor do I work on LJ's staff. Perhaps the >> viewpoint >> of the average lay user of LiveJournal is something the >> development team >> could stand to hear a little more of, because if Dreamwidth wants >> to be a >> viable business, the staff—both volunteer and paid—are going to >> have to be >> prepared to play nicely with a much wider user base than the code- >> jockeying >> power users who have been around since LJ's infancy. > > It certainly seems to me that Mark, Denise, and the project leaders > have been listening to a wide array of viewpoints on /* almost every > issue that has been brought to their attention */ including those from > users who have never volunteered or been employed by LJ or any of the > other journal sites. Also, please rest assured that the volunteer > team and staff of Dreamwidth have many, many collective years of > experience dealing with all sorts of customers and users (including > all types of LJ users).
I think we've reached the point where this discussion is going nowhere quickly in a handbasket. I'm going to ask that we defer discussing this issue until after Dreamwidth is up and running, and after we have the feature-design process in place, which will allow us to solicit and process user feedback and dialog in a much more easy-to-handle fashion than on mailing list messages. Since there's no way we can possibly solve the issue in the 21 days remaining until our open beta launch, I think everyone will be far better served by spending that time thinking about the issues that have already been raised and ways to work around them, so that when we open the discussion on Dreamwidth itself, we can all be prepared with some good ideas. I'd like to request that this thread be allowed to die off now, please. --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
