On the surface there appear to be some substantial differences. The one that matters to a lot of people is that they separated the LJ "friend" concept into two parts. So you can subscribe to read someone's journal without giving them full access to read yours. Granting access to read non-public posts is a separate check box. This has never mattered to me but it bugs the heck out of some folks.
They are promising no outside advertising ever. I'm not sure how they expect to work that, but I'm willing to watch and see. They will have paid accounts of various sorts with different levels of privilege once they get out of beta. I agree that the outside adverts are an irritation and sometimes make LJ unreadable, though with AdBlocker Plus installed I never see them. I believe they are conceding the existence of software like AdBlocker Plus and saying that banner ads and popups are doomed.
They've made major enhancements to the interest list, filtering, and searching. What I find most significant about all this is that it's evidence of an active development team who understand the code. That's something that GreatestJournal never seems to have had, and part of what strangled them.
Could be a dud, could be a promising development. At the moment they talk like a return to the original goals and ideals of LJ before it was so badly damaged by SixApart.
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Date: 2009-04-22 10:35 am (UTC)They are promising no outside advertising ever. I'm not sure how they expect to work that, but I'm willing to watch and see. They will have paid accounts of various sorts with different levels of privilege once they get out of beta. I agree that the outside adverts are an irritation and sometimes make LJ unreadable, though with AdBlocker Plus installed I never see them. I believe they are conceding the existence of software like AdBlocker Plus and saying that banner ads and popups are doomed.
They've made major enhancements to the interest list, filtering, and searching. What I find most significant about all this is that it's evidence of an active development team who understand the code. That's something that GreatestJournal never seems to have had, and part of what strangled them.
Could be a dud, could be a promising development. At the moment they talk like a return to the original goals and ideals of LJ before it was so badly damaged by SixApart.