I think one of the issues I'm currently experiencing with Imzy is that they're rather overfriendly. Lots of "Hi! We just want to sound really cheery about something that's minor, or make someone friending you sound exciting! Lots of exclamation marks will do this, and it should make you feel right at home!"
As a matter of fact, I'm not a fan of overdone 'chumminess', although I guess it might appeal to other people. It makes my skin crawl, just a little, but there's no option to remove this or change it.
Also, I feel that only notifying a user of the first comment in a post is a little like blackmail: "YOU MUST VISIT OUR SITE AND INTERACT IN ORDER TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON." You know what? I don't want to visit your site 'just to see what's going on'. I'd like the option to be notified when people respond to my posts - every comment but my own.
Basically, I feel like imzy is trying to force a whole bunch of things on the community to make it a community, without letting the community organically grow itself as communities do. There's no absolute way to make a successful social media site, although there are reliable metrics for me - interaction, commonality, and the easy ability of the individual to mark lines and maintain them.
While they're pushing the interaction and the commonality on me, they've taken away my ability to mark the lines and maintain them - or complicated it rather more than I'm particularly comfortable with.
Maybe they'll convert me; at this point, the answer is "no". And when they keep coming at me with bright and chirpy email messages, then the answer is "HELL, no."
As a matter of fact, I'm not a fan of overdone 'chumminess', although I guess it might appeal to other people. It makes my skin crawl, just a little, but there's no option to remove this or change it.
Also, I feel that only notifying a user of the first comment in a post is a little like blackmail: "YOU MUST VISIT OUR SITE AND INTERACT IN ORDER TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON." You know what? I don't want to visit your site 'just to see what's going on'. I'd like the option to be notified when people respond to my posts - every comment but my own.
Basically, I feel like imzy is trying to force a whole bunch of things on the community to make it a community, without letting the community organically grow itself as communities do. There's no absolute way to make a successful social media site, although there are reliable metrics for me - interaction, commonality, and the easy ability of the individual to mark lines and maintain them.
While they're pushing the interaction and the commonality on me, they've taken away my ability to mark the lines and maintain them - or complicated it rather more than I'm particularly comfortable with.
Maybe they'll convert me; at this point, the answer is "no". And when they keep coming at me with bright and chirpy email messages, then the answer is "HELL, no."