An Update About Crossposting

[andraste]

A few weeks ago, I posted an entry to livejournal about crossposting, in order to gauge how many people are still reading my entries there. Turns out there are still quite a few of you, so crossposting will continue for now!

However, I should probably not that I'd set my arbitrary threshold at twenty readers ... and I got twenty-two responses in total. Barring a huge change in circumstances, I don't see my crossposting to lj as a permanent thing. My plan is to review annually to check if there are still a significant number of people I'd be inconveniencing if I stopped. Readers exclusively on livejournal would still be able to see my posts by setting up an RSS feed through their friendslist, but I realize that this is an annoying extra step to follow with a journal you might have been reading on lj for a decade.

I reserve the right to review this decision if livejournal does something particularly boneheaded tomorrow.

Comments

[jhall1]

However, I should probably not that I'd set my arbitrary threshold at twenty readers

To me, that seems to be setting it pretty high. I wonder what percentage of your readers read your journal via LJ and what percentage via DW, and how many regular readers you have in total? (I'd expect the number of regular readers to be substantially smaller than the total number of people who have befriended you.)

[andraste]

To me, that seems to be setting it pretty high. I wonder what percentage of your readers read your journal via LJ and what percentage via DW, and how many regular readers you have in total?

Out of curiosity, I ran a poll on my Dreamwidth account. I got more responses to the poll than to my livejournal post, but clicking a button is easier than posting a comment, so factoring that in I estimate that about fifty percent of my readers are on Dreamwidth.

I set my goal number at twenty because it's a bit under ten percent of the two-hundred-and-eight people who have me friended on livejournal. If less than ten percent of my flist was reading my entries, I wouldn't have a lot of incentive left to keep posting there.

[jhall1]

Thanks. That's very interesting - and to me slightly surprising - data.