First, as the product of a single researcher's work, support is reduced to an individual's flailing catchup between paying work. (for Google|university, read paying|class). So improvements are going to be hard to come by, even nontechnical infrastructure like typos in menus.
Second, sheep mentality applies. People are leaving in droves. Communities that had dozens or hundreds of posts a day are now moribund. If there's nothing for me, there's no reason for me to be there.
Most of the complaints about Orkut seem displaced to me. But they're also the complaints repeatedly cited as grounds for dropping out. Being unable to delete your own account is a (relatively) simple infrastructure problem (see problem one) made complex largely because of the noise made about it. Insisting on leaving because you're not allowed to leave is circular and somewhat petty. If you really need your personal info secured, zero it out and abandon the account.
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Date: 2004-02-27 03:49 am (UTC)First, as the product of a single researcher's work, support is reduced to an individual's flailing catchup between paying work. (for Google|university, read paying|class). So improvements are going to be hard to come by, even nontechnical infrastructure like typos in menus.
Second, sheep mentality applies. People are leaving in droves. Communities that had dozens or hundreds of posts a day are now moribund. If there's nothing for me, there's no reason for me to be there.
Most of the complaints about Orkut seem displaced to me. But they're also the complaints repeatedly cited as grounds for dropping out. Being unable to delete your own account is a (relatively) simple infrastructure problem (see problem one) made complex largely because of the noise made about it. Insisting on leaving because you're not allowed to leave is circular and somewhat petty. If you really need your personal info secured, zero it out and abandon the account.