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What features would you want it to have? (Don't worry about realistic or how it would work - this is just meant for fun.)

I've seen quite a few people commenting here how they miss journal sites and a more community themed place for fandom, and got me to thinking. So what would your ideal fandom or social site be like?

I really liked LJ back in the day, so I'd want a lot similar to that but with added features. So mixing in some Tumblr and Facebook stuff. Options for kudos/liking posts, dedicated comments section, privacy settings (public, friends only, private entries), and the option to turn 'reblogging' on or off on individual entries.

This, sans reblogging. It just makes it waaaay too easy for BS to spread [and potentially dangerous where petitions and the like are concerned] for my tastes.

I go back and forth on the reblogging. It's really really great for artists and people trying to spread their work, as well as when you want to share something but don't really have anything to add. But there are a lot of downsides, as you mentioned. I'd be happy with my fictional journal site without it.

Re: If you were going to make a new journal/social site...

squeakycat - 2014-03-02 22:44 (UTC) - Expand

LJ had a reblog-esque feature for a while. People lost their collective minds over crap they hadn't signed up for showing up on their flists, and since it was the original entry showing up it was the writers of the original posts and not the people who had reblogged them getting hit with all the vitriol.

Yupyup, that's why I would want it to be a feature per-entry and able to turn it on and off each time. Also default would be off. Also only applicable to public entries.

It's sad because a lot of LJs newer trial features could have been useful if they had actually applied and deployed them correctly. They had a good base idea but then went to shit.

Re: If you were going to make a new journal/social site...

(Anonymous) - 2014-03-02 22:59 (UTC) - Expand

I would love someone to rip Facebook like DW did for LJ, but get rid of all the crap. I use FB a lot, but I hate the further and further privacy invasions, selling our photos as ads, etc.

Was what Dreamwidth did... legal, I wonder? Could someone do the same thing for Facebook?

Anyway, concerning fandom, I'd much rather have a LJ/DW type blog. Better for discussion than tumblr.

If I recall, LJ's code was opensource free to use for anyone. I don't believe FB works on anything like that. Sadly.

some magical mish-mash of tumblr and lj. i like having a dashboard and things being more graphic based. BUT i miss communities and friending memes and comments. so basically i want something very unrealistic lol. it can just be so damn hard to find people on tumblr compared to lj days.

instant teleportation button

upload a picture of a drink or your cute friend and then click and there they are!

An option to automatically turn off any autoplay music, no matter the theme.

Yes, or automaticially make a customized page readable and workable in low res.

Yes to both of these. x.x

Complete lack of tag system or reblogging. tumblr has made it very easy for complete horseshit to spread -- almost faster than Facebook.

LJ and DW function just fine with a tag system. If you're going to be posting content in any sort of volume, it's practically a necessity for organizational purposes.

The reason things spread so easily on Tumblr is the searchability of the tags and the reblogging function.

A cross-platform feed that groups all the posts from the social media sites you frequent (LJ, DW, Tumblr, so on).

I really like the LJ option where you can exclude or include tags in your feed. Really helpful with your interests are specific.

Social - Anonymity and privacy would be encouraged in bold, red italics. Especially for younger members. Tagging and sharing would be way more conservative, and you couldn't see every single thing someone commented on unless the person specifically made that optional. I think I'd also implement a better filter system - something similar to Livejournal. I know there's people who can't even really post to FB, because they have so many friends from so many different places that what's fine for some people to see may be very much Not Okay for other people to see, and filtering/blocking gets so complicated.

I really just miss the sense of community I had on LJ. There are a select few communities still there thriving, but it's just not the same. So I suppose I want a mash of LJ with the best of facebook/tumblr.

I like the commenting/discussion format of LJ/DW the best. I like being able to follow individual threads of discussion within a larger discussion. (I don't mind the BBoard format, but it's nice to see at a glance exactly what comment another comment is in response to, and to be able to skip over sub-threads that don't look interesting.)

Maybe I just don't get how Tumblr works, but I hate having to scroll through pages and pages of "so-and-so reblogged this"/"so-and-so liked this" to find someone who made an actual comment (which then requires going to that person's tumblr, only to find that they basically said something like "read this post!" and did not add to the discussion). I also hate the way nested discussions threads get displayed in a post where older comments in the thread get squished into increasingly narrow columns that get really hard to read. I find figuring out who said what in these situations to be difficult, too.

I would have a sort of LJ/Tumblr hybrid, I guess. It would have LJ-style commenting and cascading threads, but would also incorporate Tumblr- or Facebook-style "liking" or kudos or whatever so people can leave a mark of approval without having to make an actual comment and also to direct readers of their own journal/whatever to posts by others that they thought were neat (but maybe not exactly like reblogging - I don't know how it would work).

You could have the option of making your journal more like LJ or more like Tumblr, depending on what you were trying to do with it. Communities and personal blogs with a lot of text content that might inspire discussion would be more LJ like, while if you wanted to do a blog where you post a pic of every meal you eat or create something like What's Different in Canada where discussion is not such a priority, it could be more Tumblr-like.

It would be basically a journal site that more people used with a good tagging system (DWs is pretty good), good filtering options, and the ability to like/dislike comments. I would add in the ability to share short posts that are just images or text posts - sort of like tumblr, but without sacrificing comments or community (reblog to comment is so annoying agh). To facilitate this I would make a journal entry, which stays on your own page (but obv could be linked), a separate thing from a small text/image/video post that could be shared.

To facilitate this I would make a journal entry, which stays on your own page (but obv could be linked), a separate thing from a small text/image/video post that could be shared.

THIS, so fucking much!

Some sort of unholy combo of LJ and Tumblr. I'd keep the dashboard and tagging system of Tumblr -- lots of people seem to dislike that here, but I think the tag system is one of the reasons Tumblr is so popular, because you can post something for your fandom, tag it, and suddenly a bunch of people can see it and like it without having to join a community or follow you or actively search it out. I'd keep the 'like' button but there would also be a commenting feature. 'X people liked this' would be a separate link from 'X people commented,' so the comments would be separate from the billion 'X likes this' that, let's face it, no one really much cares about except maybe the person who posted the original. The comments would be threaded, LJ-like, and you could reply to a comment with a comment though images in replies would be limited to a certain size. Reblogs could be done as well and would be put with the comments, and replies to a reblog would be a thread.

For communities, those could be set up that could be joined and any posts into that community would show in a tag search as being posted by the community rather than the user, and show up on the community's page. You could, however, also set individual posts to 'community-only.' The community page would look more like an LJ comm rather than Tumblr blog, but formatting could be set so that you could do just plain old image posts like you do with Tumblr as well as fanfic and stuff. The mod of the community could also set an option to allow anonymous posts and replies, so kink memes could be done.

In general formatting of your dash could be easily customizable too, so you could, for example, change the width of a post so fanfic posts were more readable without having to go to the person's blog. People could still make their own layouts for their own blogs like with Tumblr and LJ but embedded audio players would never be allowed ever because seriously, I thought those died with Geocities, stop it now. There would be a searchable tag list or tag cloud (because I hate when I check someone's Tumblr and you know they post something for your fandom but it's off the first page and you don't know what they've tagged it but there's no way to find out without finding a post). Also some sort of memories-style function, so people who write fic can make it actually findable on their blogs. The dashboard would also have a function for sorting liked posts, so if you liked something because you want to go back to it you don't have to scroll through 20 pages of other likes you don't care about anymore.

I have too many thoughts.

I like your many thoughts (because I agree with them).

If I had the time and resources, I would totally code this.

I love the thought you've put into this. It sounds wonderful.

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