Livre d'Or

It's not quite Usenet style, because they're not flooding: everyone pulls from LJ if they want someone's LJ postings, from IJ if they want someone's IJ postings, and so on, so you don't get the load balancing which andrewducker wanted for Twitter (I guess this was back when Ruby kept going off the Rails and taking the site down). In the case of friends-locked stuff, that's a good thing: if you wanted friends-locked stuff and flooding, you're into magical crypto fairy dust, and the boffins from down the road will take great delight in taking your system to bits.

I still think it's pretty likely there will be a dramafest about this. After all, many DW users, and their LJ friends, are LJ's keenest fandom members. I'm not sure whether there'll be enough of an uproar for LJ to block DW: I'd say not, it looks too much like an attempt to squash the competition.

As it happens, DW's proposal does make me a little uneasy. I previously criticised people for complaining about LJ's notification system on the grounds that it didn't do anything stalkers couldn't do already, so I'm not sure why this feels different, but it does. It may be my uncertainty that DW will survive is biasing me, but that's irrational of me: if DW go bust they probably won't decide to give away the keys to people's LJ accounts, say.