Sarah Constantin, Ben Hoffman, Valentine Smith, and various others have recently mentioned planning to do the same.
Prediction: If they do, we will see a substantial pickup in discussion here. If they don’t, we won’t.
People go where the content is. The diaspora left LW a ghost town not because nobody liked LW but because all the best content—which is ever and always created by a relatively small number of people—went elsewhere. I read SSC, and post on SSC, not because it is better than LW (it’s not, its interface makes me want to hit babies with concrete blocks) but because that’s where Yvain writes. LW’s train wreck of a technical state is not as much of a handicap as it seems.
I like LW-ish content, so I approve of this effort—but it will only work to the extent that the Royals return.
Prediction: If they do, we will see a substantial pickup in discussion here. If they don’t, we won’t.
People go where the content is. The diaspora left LW a ghost town not because nobody liked LW but because all the best content—which is ever and always created by a relatively small number of people—went elsewhere. I read SSC, and post on SSC, not because it is better than LW (it’s not, its interface makes me want to hit babies with concrete blocks) but because that’s where Yvain writes. LW’s train wreck of a technical state is not as much of a handicap as it seems.
I like LW-ish content, so I approve of this effort—but it will only work to the extent that the Royals return.