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puzzlement ([personal profile] puzzlement) wrote in [site community profile] dw_biz 2010-10-21 07:36 am (UTC)

As far as sub-association goes, there's perhaps something going on here socially with regard to communities.

Generally speaking, users expect that a community has semi/occasionally-open membership. But since communities are currently the only official model for having a separate journal with the same login, the following happens:
1. some people make a community in order to have a de-facto second journal
2. some people make a community in order to have, essentially, a journal for postings by a small number of people (I do this with [community profile] incrementum, my parenting blog), but there's no way to distinguish this in the UX, so [community profile] incrementum for example shows up in interests pages with equal status to communities that people can actually join.

Model #2 is a separate problem, but perhaps Model #1 is overlapping this problem a fair bit. Will communities be able to be migrated to sub-accounts? Will all of the use cases of "I'm setting up a comm for my icons, I am the only poster" be catered for by subaccounts? Why/why not?

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