Pros: It's easy to get the look and feel you want, without paying special fees to LJ for the privilege. This goes beyond simple HTML as well - you can have different looks for different topics.
Also, there's a feeling of ownership that I never had with LJ. I'm not too sure what it is, seeing that (my words == my words), but it's quite pronounced. Enough so that it outweighs all of the cons/pains in the ass.
Cons: No one comments. Ever. Even if you use an RSS feed. There's an LJ synch for Wordpress that will reconnected with the LJ folks. I'm not too sure where I found it, but I can search again for you.
Pains in the ass: Comment spam. This is the biggest pain in the ass. The bastards will send wave after wave of poorly written comments regarding Texas Hold'em. What they won't do is mannually log on and see what's happening. I'm under thair radar, so the super-simple brain dead captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha)-esque add-on I made has stopped all of them so far.
when mmdy was ongoing, i was getting as many as a thousand spammed comments a day. sophisticated filters only blocked about 70% of them.
and it's true, you can have thousands of readers, but very rarely does anyone comment. unless, of course, it's some sort of bullshit anonymous dissing. if you don't have anything nice to say ... say it on a syndicated blog! hurrah!
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Date: 2006-01-03 04:18 pm (UTC)It's easy to get the look and feel you want, without paying special fees to LJ for the privilege. This goes beyond simple HTML as well - you can have different looks for different topics.
Also, there's a feeling of ownership that I never had with LJ. I'm not too sure what it is, seeing that (my words == my words), but it's quite pronounced. Enough so that it outweighs all of the cons/pains in the ass.
Cons:
No one comments. Ever. Even if you use an RSS feed. There's an LJ synch for Wordpress that will reconnected with the LJ folks. I'm not too sure where I found it, but I can search again for you.
Pains in the ass:
Comment spam. This is the biggest pain in the ass. The bastards will send wave after wave of poorly written comments regarding Texas Hold'em. What they won't do is mannually log on and see what's happening. I'm under thair radar, so the super-simple brain dead captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha)-esque add-on I made has stopped all of them so far.
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Date: 2006-01-08 04:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 07:56 pm (UTC)and it's true, you can have thousands of readers, but very rarely does anyone comment. unless, of course, it's some sort of bullshit anonymous dissing. if you don't have anything nice to say ... say it on a syndicated blog! hurrah!
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:31 pm (UTC)