Open Beta speculations!

[foxfirefey]

Open Beta is...dundundun...tomorrow!

Here is your post to speculate on what's going to happen. Do you think seed accounts are going to sell fast or slow? What kind of drama is going to erupt when the flood gates are open? Are you expecting to drag people over now that the gates are open more, or are people you know banging to get in?

Comments

Re: Wild speculation!

[orexisbella.livejournal.com]

Just curious - I think I missed the community import wailing. Is it not going to be possible to import a community? *confused*

Re: Wild speculation!

[foxfirefey]

There are several social and technological barriers to the import of communities, basically:

* It's harder to justify the fair use of importing posts from a community versus things like comments. There are people out there who are upset that they can't import communities, but there are also a lot of people out there who would be upset if we did, as well.
* We currently import things as OpenID users, so people can still have control over their content. But, OpenID users cannot make posts, so we can't post as them to a community without backend changes. And if we import posts and tag them as OpenID, then there'd be a lot of confusion from OpenID users who would think that would mean they could post.

There are proposals and suggestions around this, but chances are wholesale importing of a community (short of single poster communities, perhaps) isn't going to happen.