(As a note: I wasn't nearly as serious about my original post as you seem to have taken it.)
Fair enough, I got to the end of the page in increasing frustration at people missing the obvious point he made and, well... 5th day of flu and barely any sleep, apologies.
But, a key point he made was that he, personally, doesn't understand the US market, what they want or how LJ is used, so he's travelling over to spend a month and a half trying to get that understanding. Note they'd done that research in Singapore already hence the changes they made there, etc.
To be frank, I don't think anyone understands the diversity of use forms within the US userbase, especially not 'typical' US users-that he's prepared to admit it and that they want to figure out what would be a good way to take the site is a good sign.
But, y'know, it's not as bad as the way they're treating the UK userbase. Several years back they made a deal with a leading UK paper to be their main blogging platform. Two years ago SUP fired the guy that was point contact and the deal went sour, the paper now self hosts its own blogs (which're awful, but more user friendly than LJ for a non geeky journalist). Two years later, the LJ frontpage for UK users still has a 'recent news' module linking to two year old comment articles...
(also? I really need to get me some Sherlock icons, spent half tonights ep spotting locations near where I grew up)
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Date: 2012-01-09 02:32 am (UTC)Fair enough, I got to the end of the page in increasing frustration at people missing the obvious point he made and, well... 5th day of flu and barely any sleep, apologies.
But, a key point he made was that he, personally, doesn't understand the US market, what they want or how LJ is used, so he's travelling over to spend a month and a half trying to get that understanding. Note they'd done that research in Singapore already hence the changes they made there, etc.
To be frank, I don't think anyone understands the diversity of use forms within the US userbase, especially not 'typical' US users-that he's prepared to admit it and that they want to figure out what would be a good way to take the site is a good sign.
But, y'know, it's not as bad as the way they're treating the UK userbase. Several years back they made a deal with a leading UK paper to be their main blogging platform. Two years ago SUP fired the guy that was point contact and the deal went sour, the paper now self hosts its own blogs (which're awful, but more user friendly than LJ for a non geeky journalist). Two years later, the LJ frontpage for UK users still has a 'recent news' module linking to two year old comment articles...
(also? I really need to get me some Sherlock icons, spent half tonights ep spotting locations near where I grew up)