If someone really wants to create content, they can get a DW account.
To an extent, true. But they need to either have an invite code, which means they have to ask for one, go through the faff of getting it, etc, or they have to pay.
And while I'd like many many paid users, I think it'd be offputting.
You see a minor benefit, I see a major one: it allows existing users of the site, who're commenting and being involved, to actually participate as full members of comms they're a part of. Many of the OpenID commenters on my (or more importantly miss_s_b's) journal are non-LJ OpenID users, and now that you've moved to OpenID2, we definitely plan to promote that usage more often; that includes a lot of active, senior UK political types and similar.
If I can, say, persuade Adrian to participate over here without any faff, they I can eventually persuade him to dump MySpace completely in favour of using DW. But baby steps are easiest--despite having an open offer of codes, a lot of our friends prefer to not bother signing up--if signup becomes significantly easier, I think we can persuade people to jump over here at a greater rate.
And I definitely want to use DW comms for 'real' blogs at some point; allowing OpenID users to participate fully would make that a lot easier. I pretty much agree with all of 'Fey's benefits above, and disagree it's a minor advantage.
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Date: 2009-11-10 05:59 pm (UTC)To an extent, true. But they need to either have an invite code, which means they have to ask for one, go through the faff of getting it, etc, or they have to pay.
And while I'd like many many paid users, I think it'd be offputting.
You see a minor benefit, I see a major one: it allows existing users of the site, who're commenting and being involved, to actually participate as full members of comms they're a part of. Many of the OpenID commenters on my (or more importantly
If I can, say, persuade Adrian to participate over here without any faff, they I can eventually persuade him to dump MySpace completely in favour of using DW. But baby steps are easiest--despite having an open offer of codes, a lot of our friends prefer to not bother signing up--if signup becomes significantly easier, I think we can persuade people to jump over here at a greater rate.
And I definitely want to use DW comms for 'real' blogs at some point; allowing OpenID users to participate fully would make that a lot easier. I pretty much agree with all of 'Fey's benefits above, and disagree it's a minor advantage.