I'm another former GEnie user, and often think of it nostalgically. I too remember those wonderful, LONG Ray Feist posts which were so full of fantastic information for newer writers. Most of the early WILD CARDS novels were hashed out there in one large group conversation between myself, George, Melinda, Walter Jon, Roger, Vic, John, and all the others. I tried a few other places after GEnie faded away, but none had the same feel, the same sense that this was a 'conversation.'
And thanks to minnehaha-K, I wandered here to LJ, and found that this was the closest model I'd yet seen to GEnie. Not the same, but the sense of community was here. I've seen some flaming here, but nothing awful, and so I've managed to keep my own topic public also.
The one ability that missing here -- as people have noted above -- is being able to easily bookmark an interesting thread of replies. Because the postings get harder and harder to easily find as they get older, the 'conversations' here tend to be more the 'room party' variety: they start, they get interesting, but then people wander away and the conversation just fades off.
But overall, I'm very comfortable here so far. And I'm glad you're posting your musings on the industry -- very interesting!
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Date: 2004-08-28 08:24 am (UTC)And thanks to minnehaha-K, I wandered here to LJ, and found that this was the closest model I'd yet seen to GEnie. Not the same, but the sense of community was here. I've seen some flaming here, but nothing awful, and so I've managed to keep my own topic public also.
The one ability that missing here -- as people have noted above -- is being able to easily bookmark an interesting thread of replies. Because the postings get harder and harder to easily find as they get older, the 'conversations' here tend to be more the 'room party' variety: they start, they get interesting, but then people wander away and the conversation just fades off.
But overall, I'm very comfortable here so far. And I'm glad you're posting your musings on the industry -- very interesting!