huh, imzy is closing down

[tielan]

Apparently they couldn't find their niche.

I stopped using it because it simply didn't suit me - I'm oldskool journal keeping. I don't need the new fancy details - hell, I used to HTML code my journal entries for a website I paid for, using a basic layout format and then adding the text, including <p> tags! LJ was a revelation - still the code, but all the design and layout functions made easy! And if there were more complicated things - like embedding vids or sound files, then you could do that easily enough with the WYSIWYG interface if the vids/sound sites didn't make it easy for you to embed by pre-producing the code.

And, too, the people connections weren't there for me in Imzy. I started out social media on LJ, which had a particularly fannish community feel back in the day. Friendships were made by interacting, by connecting over common interests and then commenting on each other's meta - holding conversations in text that couldn't be held in person or over the phone. Most of my connections on Tumblr and DW and a great many of my FB connections are from those old LJ interactions.

Imzy, in contrast, added nothing to my social media experience - I had no incentive to use it without a guarantee of interaction, and there is no guarantee of interaction in Imzy, let alone a way to interact without having to go back to Imzy and look through all the posts you'd previously commented in. It was (if I think about it) a bit like going to FFA - with even less way to track conversations that you were interested in.

So, not my thing. Apparently not many other peoples' thing either.

I'm sorry for the people whose style of social interaction/internet presentation Imzy suited, but it wasn't for me.

Comments

[scribblemyname]

Someone has replied to comment/post and dropped you on the comments of post (parent comment if a reply), upgrade 1 with new comments clearly marked. On the notifs page, also said how many comments and gave a new notif when the old one was marked read. Imperfect but present and actually useful.

I do agree with Tumblr's limitations and part of why it didn't work for me. Imzy only added personal journaling though because users clearly wanted it. Imzy was about comms and really only worked well for that with the existing features, but it functioned and was laid out more like Tumblr than anything else, and I really can't shake the association, right down to its stream approach to content and the dashboard. Very Tumblresque but like community features only focused Tumblr. Though extra nonTumblr comm features too, but yeah, nothing geared towards personal journals really.

Eta: sorry about my butchered grammar. I should be sleeping.

But that's why I'm weeping over my fave comms really, and their awesome pseud system, but whatever.

[tielan]

I understand people being disappointed that it's gone down, particularly if it worked for them. It just never worked for me, and, I guess, for quite a few other people, too.

[scribblemyname]

Yup.

As I'd say at work, known issue. :sigh: