September 11, 2013
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Come ON
Seriously. Trying to connect the Xanga pieces together is challenging enough.
STOP WITH THE FOLLOWERS LOCK.
Good Lord!! I'm serious. It's a freaking brick wall in the way of any community. You're probably really tired of me saying so, but I'm really damn tired of stuff like this (No offense to the person I happened to take the capture of, really, it's just the most recent one I ran into):
There is no option to request. No option of anything. Just a brick wall.
AND THEN? I saw a popular Xangan writing, early on in 2.0, about how she was doing a mass unfollowing of most of her subscribers (she estimated 1,300) because she didn't want to have to search through available posts to find blogs from her real friends. Way to segment and divide what is left, what precious little is left.
Others agreed with her plan and said they were doing the same.
Coincidentally, I looked at the day that was posted. The next was when I was no longer on many following/followers lists and when I tried to go back to see why? FOLLOWERS LOCK.
I just want it to stop. I don't understand the purpose of total seclusion. I don't understand the purpose of shutting out the few who remain. What are we trying to do? Do we want Xanga to survive? Or do we want it to die?
You have that power.
Comments (14)
And now I really miss the rec feature! Ugh! lol Good post!
Thank you. I'm pulling my *beeeeeeeping* hair out over here.
you can come visit me anytime. Jlll
Thank you, Jill. I followed you. Did I already tell you that? I'm having amnesia.
Where is the 'like' button.
Right next to the message me button. Lost. Drat!
I always get the message --
coochiekat.xanga.com has humans lock and you don't seem to be an actual human. Please return to your den and eat scorpions.
I hate it when that happens.
Well she just has all kinds of ridiculous criteria for the readers, doesn't she. I bet she hides sexy boys in there. Yes. That explains it.
The worst part is that there's no way to even send them a message to let them know that they're behind a locked door you can't open. :-/
The worst part is, MOST of your readership is on that lock, Riis. What did you do to scare them so??
I was here at the very start of Xanga (Dec 2000)and felt the pulse of a large enough critical mass of bloggers to launch it and keep it going until it virally flourished. At least it had a portal page at the very start to give a sense of realtime vibrancy.
By time xanga gets around to being a design that truly supports a social network in a flourishing way again, its critical core will be too miniscule to support its regeneration. Like a rocket on the launchpad where the initial full burns out and liftoff never occurs.
It is my hope that those who remain, and many of us are old school Xangans (though not quite since inception, I've been here almost 9 years myself), will remain still through the transition and birth, until we walk again. At this point we are, afterall, invested. And it's personal, besides financial.
I know I'll keep the candle burning.
I am toying with follower lock because of all the spam I'm getting but I won't because we need to rebuild this ghost town and make it a community again.
Thank you for that. Sincerely. My goal is also growing the community. Because I love her. *sniff sniff*
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