Vox: Livejournal lite? & stuff

[matgb]

flemco has a new book coming out.

This is (probably) a good thing. Admittedly, I'm still barely a third of the way through his first one (borrowed from nadriel). Hmm...

6 Apart has launched a new service, called Vox. It's, um, Livejournal with a different name aimed at old people. Um, why? You bought Livejournal, and now you're launching a different version? Why not market the one you've got better?

I decided not to take part in the whole delete your journal in protest at the nipplegate thing. 24 hours switched off may have put across a message, I hope that 6A listen to sense and back down/apologise/sort out a proper Abuse team, but, at the end of the day, I just don't care enough, those kicking up a fuss were being just as obtuse as those causing the original problem. I did think about it a lot. I nearly put up a poll as well.

Oh, weather reports. Top "hours of sunshine" and temperatures last few days. Torquay. Where do I live? Torquay. What do I hate the most? Hot weather. Still, got a letter from teh council, someone has complained about downstairs' music. I think I might be backing up that one, she's got it on again, it's loud, crap and she's shouting her head off as well. Everyone OK out there?

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[rho]

And since I can't comment on one of the linked entries without joingin the community, I'll comment here. The backend infrastructure that is mentioned will almost certainly be memcache, so not so much about replication of LiveJournal features there (unless you consider being fast and not crashing a feature).

Not to say that Vox isn't a copy of LJ with different marketing. It probably is. I didn't get far enough to find out, though, because the site design was too horrible for me to look at for more than a minute. Just saying that that comment shouldn't be used as evidence.

[matgb]

Ah, see, backend stuff that is beyond my ken, so I can only go with what the text says.

I'm looking at the marketing and utility perspective, and yes, Vox does look ugly. The no lj ads lot are pretty good on technical stuff, I read out of interest really.