interaction

[kossai]

something which do miss from cohost right now - most days would wake up to see that posts from day before have some form of interaction . not that numbers is what aim for , but just know that people around and people acknowledge , right ?
but do not really get that here unless people comment , and ... comments tend to be more rare , even on places like cohost which explicitly try to encourage .

and can understand that , really - not everything warrant discussion and chip in with thoughts , necessarily . or there might be cases in which just do not know enough about subject to try and put together comment , so would prefer stay quiet .
but ... still miss that ability for people to quickly acknowledge .

of course also understand this is not part of dreamwidth design features for good reason , so not to say that dreamwidth should change . guess just sort of adjustment pains - and feel sort of like hypocrite when kossai also do not comment very much .
maybe should test out little heart comments or something ...? or even , people who miss this kind of feature could make little comment policies - if OK to leave these kind of " pseudo-likes " , just hearts or single words or whatever .

Comments

[onlyknownothing]

I agree completely. I used to leave the little cohost "yeah" custom emoji as a comment response on comments that I liked but had nothing to add to there, since there was no way to "like" comments there (unlike actual posts). I don't mind if you do something like that with my journal in the place of a "like" button, and if you'd like me to do the same with yours I certainly will.

Don't know how to make that readily obvious in posting, but I'll brainstorm something. Maybe a banner or button to put on the intro post to say "This user accepts emote-only comments as 'likes'"? Dunno. Worth pondering.

[kossai]

<3 !

yeah , just decide to put comment policy here for now . also think maybe short acknowledgment comments can help get people into habit of further comment , since that is only choice here ? certainly might be easy for long time users to say just comment but of course , have habits from other platforms which need to account for first .

[onlyknownothing]

Since you were the one who inspired this, I figured I'd run it by you to see if it's something you'd want to make changes to before I post it on my own journal and the newcomers community:

👍 Leave a Like! ❤️

Don't have much to say, but want to show appreciation? Feel free to leave a single-emoji comment (🙂, 👍, ❤️, or whatever!) to let me know you like what you see!

[kossai]

oh , super cute , yes ! :D

[dismallyoriented]

I am having this exact same kind of adjustment pains, yeah. This is partially why I've been spending so much more time commenting and reading things instead of saying things. I've missed also being able to comment on people's posts when they're showing up in my feed from like, personal websites or non-DW platforms. Frustrating when they're folks I don't really feel I know well enough to try to get discord contact info or something, but I do feel like I have useful/fun things to say, or want to tell them how their post has sparked my thinking.

[kossai]

<3

[wintersouls]

yeah, i've been feeling this too lately. even on sites that DO have a "like" feature, people still barely ever comment. i miss cohost's culture of interaction most of all

[kossai]

<3

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Dreamwidth is actually great for interaction. It lets you have long conversations if you're into that. In order to make that happen, you need to do two things:

* Build an audience. The more people you have reading your posts, the more likely at least some of them will comment. This takes time.

See "How to Boost Your Audience."

* Post things that invite response and discussion. Questions work great. People like to be asked their opinions too.

https://www.blogtyrant.com/get-more-comments/

https://www.shoutmeloud.com/get-more-blog-comments.html

https://problogger.com/13-tips-on-how-to-have-great-conversations-on-your-blog/

https://websitevoice.com/blog/write-a-conversational-blog-that-converts/


See also this discussion of commenter's block.

Re: Yes ...

[kossai]

oh , no doubt about that ! but still , not always habit for people from cohost - at times even questions and prompts of discussion might garner mostly likes from people who want to hear perspectives , but not feel as if have any to give , or feel in some way too afraid to try . possibly in part because fair number cohost users come over from places like tumblr and twitter , where conversations could get especially hostile , and lurker habits can be hard to kick .

still , really appreciate links :)

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> but still , not always habit for people from cohost <<

Very true.

>> at times even questions and prompts of discussion might garner mostly likes from people who want to hear perspectives , but not feel as if have any to give , or feel in some way too afraid to try . possibly in part because fair number cohost users come over from places like tumblr and twitter , where conversations could get especially hostile , and lurker habits can be hard to kick . <<

This is why I encourage folks to lurk if they want to! It's totally okay to watch what's going on, and wait to comment until you feel inspired. And if you don't, that's fine too.

Also worth mentioning, check the profile and other places for information about parameters; people often talk about expectations and moderation, so you can tell who quashes mean behavior. People are still shitty on Dreamwidth sometimes, but at least here they are not a majority.

>> still , really appreciate links :)

I'm happy I could help. The tools are there in case people find them useful.

[(Anonymous)]

Been thinking about this on my own site as well. Maybe just a like button would be nice, but I'd want the technical implementation to be very simple.

I've been trying to encourage people to send emails but that's even harder than comments. I like emails, everyone has an email.

- Plum

[kossai]

ooh yeah ... think some people probably cruise around with firstname-lastname emails , or other identifiable information , so that complicate situations . though that is benefit of alias services , for sure !