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I don't know why communities never took off here. I think it's partly because there are better ways to interact with and find people and just form informal communities via personal journals than on LJ. But also because it's really hard to start a new community from scratch and build up enough momentum for it to feel like a vibrant place that will attract people to post. I still have some friends who are LJ-only, so I will be very sad indeed if they do force the infinite scroll friendslist on everyone.

One thing I've come to realize lately is that for community based stuff that LJ used to do, the inheritor isn't Tumblr or Facebook so much as it's Reddit. It has handles, it has threaded comments (with up/down voting), and a gazillion "subreddits" aka communities for many, many topics.