A thing I miss already

[cathyw]

there's no "like"/"+1"/some other quick and dirty way to give feedback.

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[seperis]

There is that, yeah. I am practicing leaving short but semi-meaningful comments, or faking meaningful very well.

[cathyw]

I mean, we got by on LJ without them but I've forgotten how? (Or did LJ eventually add a +1 button or the like?)

Pillowfort has likes and reblogs which I appreciate but it sounds like their infrastructural and financial situation is not as sturdy as Dreamwidth and because they're not done developing it a lot of features that would make it easier to find people are just not there yet. Argh.

[seperis]

Yeah, I'm going to get an account there, but the shades of imzy still haunt me. DW's beginnings were very grounded in reality and were ready for prime time when they opened; I just wish more sites did that instead of trying to combine development and infrastructure. As a person who does user testing on programs for a living, live user testing is great and everything for beta, but there's a reason you go through alpha first and have people who want to and know functional testing involved on that level.

...and have people willing to play 'how much can this system take lets bring it down' to find and confirm your limits. Yeah, you'll still have times things go to hell, but at least it won't be in perfectly predictible ways you should have known could happen.

[treefrogie84]

<3
I guess? yeah, i don't remember how we did it either.

[liz144]

My first instinct was to look for the like button to show my agreement.
I wonder now whether the lack of a quick way to give feedback/approval will make people more or less likely to engage with other posts...

[cathyw]

probably less, because a "good post" comment requires more effort than clicking a button and people coming from Twitter or Tumblr will start with the attitude that "you don't comment unless you have something worth saying". Alas.

[liz144]

That makes sense. If the options are between 1) say nothing unless you have something well-thought and constructive to say, or 2) say whatever you’re thinking to engage with others, even if it’s only a few words, most people will go with option 1.
Against all my internal programming, I might take a step out of my comfort zone and go with option 2.