I remember Drop.org 🙂
In the early days of Slashdot, some of the early Slashdot'ers went over to a site called Kuro5hin.
I was one of them. And, so too was the creator of Drop.org.
I recall talking to him a number of times.
I also recall him (the creator on Drop.org) trying to recruit me to join and write for Drop.org.
Most people don't know Drop.org, but many know software that powered it!— Drupal.
Apparently today my LiveJournal account turned 21! In the Before Facebook days that was my first major online community, mostly communicating with my fellow SWILlies in college but also following a few other folks like JWZ. I stopped posting there in 2008 after Six Apart sold the site; I moved my archive to this blog, but I kept my account profile parked so no one could claim it. Some slightly cringe stuff there in my description and old posts. 😂
Technically I won’t be able to celebrate my first LJ post until late next month, and it seems that I already missed the 21st anniversary of when I first started blogging on Kuro5hin in March 2003 (under then-roommate Fritz’s influence). I need to pull some of that old post content out of the Wayback Machine and backport it here since I lost it when the site went under. Well over a thousand posts, even with multiple multi-year hiatuses mixed in there.
It’s pretty wild to think about how much my life has changed over the past two decades. That’s probably a retrospective well outside the scope of a quickly thought out blog post! For example, I recently contributed to the SWAPA 500th Zine with my first update in over 15 years and summarizing one one page what had changed really hit me with all the life events I managed to fit into my 20s and 30s from college to first real job to marriage to grad school to fatherhood to moving cross-country to a return to Seattle.
Like they say, life is what happens in between posts.
https://blog.ultranurd.net/2024/07/30/livejournal-anniversary/
@Brook Ultimately, the content and dynamics are more important than the mechanisms, but since one feeds the other, both matter.
There's also who's included, who's not, on what basis, and a mess of other stuff.
I make heavy use of Reddit, none of the chans, various other networks over the years: #slashdot, #kuro5hin, #hn, #googleplus, #ello, #imzy.
Some have worked well, some not. (Imzy is an excellent case of the latter.)
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