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• lafinjack commented on Upcoming disruption
  Metafilter is good in spite of flat comments. Even there, it's far too easy to derail an entire post by an early threadshitter. Threaded discussions can get messy, sure, but not nearly as mindbending as trying to jump into a long flat-comment discussion 50+ comments in. One reason I've stuck with Livejournal for so long is that for all their faults, they've done threaded comments pretty damn well....
• jseliger.com commented on Upcoming disruption
  No server porn / tech spec details? Disappointing!...
• Charlie Stross commented on Upcoming disruption
  I read that announcement as indicating that Six Apart are being taken over by a video ad firm, that the focus of TypePad is drifting somewhat towards the commercial side (all that guff about "monetize your audience" is classic Web2.0horrea). I really don't like the look of VideoEgg -- it's basically a marketing company aiming to get eyeballs-on-advertisements -- so I expect TypePad to turn into an ad-encrusted monstrosity in short order, which goes some way towards justifying my decision not to migrate this blog in that direction. There is, however, no news whatsoever about Movable Type as yet. If...
• Feòrag commented on Upcoming disruption
  It would be more helpful if you came up with some actual suggestions of possibilities. Wordpress is not an option for the simple reason that I, who will have to do the work, cannot get my head around it at all and have never successfully got it to do anything, ever....
• Charlie Stross commented on Upcoming disruption
  I do not get paid for time spent "rolling my own" with Django. (And I've been forced to use a Django site for guest blogging. Once. Shudder.)...