Well, there's still plenty of food for thought right here, I'd say. ^_^ Of course, receiving replies can be another kettle of squid..
I'm not sure if Tumblr and Twitter started the trend (not in the sense of "this is the single way in which things are generally progressing", but in the more minor sense of a trend) of minimal effort/involvement, with the former specialising in one-click "replies", the latter quick quips and throwaway miscellania, but they've certainly leveraged that inclination effectively.
I'd cite Usenet as a fair example to back up your assertion. It isn't immediate, as with anything web-based, but being decentralised, there's no single point of failure, no company deciding arbitrarily to swivel their business model around (or go bust), and being fully standards-based, clients are available for just about anything with a keyboard, with whatever features a developer wants to include. Yet, it fell away in popularity quite drastically post-2000.
Myself, I find LJ the best option, with a reasonable (10K? I forget - it's been a while since I exceeded it =:) cap on reply sizes, full threading, bagfuls of icons, arbitrary restrictions on who can view an individual entry, and most importantly, some rather neat folk to natter and argue with. ^_^
(Oh, is that a new bug? Editing a comment - here, to remove a surplus "s" - reverted the icon to my default)
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I'm not sure if Tumblr and Twitter started the trend (not in the sense of "this is the single way in which things are generally progressing", but in the more minor sense of a trend) of minimal effort/involvement, with the former specialising in one-click "replies", the latter quick quips and throwaway miscellania, but they've certainly leveraged that inclination effectively.
I'd cite Usenet as a fair example to back up your assertion. It isn't immediate, as with anything web-based, but being decentralised, there's no single point of failure, no company deciding arbitrarily to swivel their business model around (or go bust), and being fully standards-based, clients are available for just about anything with a keyboard, with whatever features a developer wants to include. Yet, it fell away in popularity quite drastically post-2000.
Myself, I find LJ the best option, with a reasonable (10K? I forget - it's been a while since I exceeded it =:) cap on reply sizes, full threading, bagfuls of icons, arbitrary restrictions on who can view an individual entry, and most importantly, some rather neat folk to natter and argue with. ^_^
(Oh, is that a new bug? Editing a comment - here, to remove a surplus "s" - reverted the icon to my default)