I think one thing that would be enormously helpful would be to search by communities (if not individual accounts) by activity level. What is a "popular" subscription in one's circle is often misleading. I took a look at what was showing for me and several people and many communities shown as recommended subscriptions are not actually active here.
Several people in my circle who were active on LJ have created accounts or updated their accounts here in the past few weeks. However all are complaining about the lack of activity -- but as much of communities as individuals. LJ's troubles haven't just been disrupting individual posting but also community activity such as fests, challenges and prompts. There has, luckily, been increased use of AO3 during this time as a result but it highlights a problem with activity on DW.
What would help everyone would be to see "where the action is" on DW, whether it's something or someone one would think to look for or not. If anything, finding something one wasn't thinking of would be more of an incentive to use DW instead of simply trying to clone their experience from somewhere else.
As regards using people's email address books, speaking for myself there are only a few people I currently know on LJ or DW whose emails I even have. When I can comment to and PM people easily, there isn't a lot of reason to gather their emails, and the ones I have may likely not even be up to date
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Several people in my circle who were active on LJ have created accounts or updated their accounts here in the past few weeks. However all are complaining about the lack of activity -- but as much of communities as individuals. LJ's troubles haven't just been disrupting individual posting but also community activity such as fests, challenges and prompts. There has, luckily, been increased use of AO3 during this time as a result but it highlights a problem with activity on DW.
What would help everyone would be to see "where the action is" on DW, whether it's something or someone one would think to look for or not. If anything, finding something one wasn't thinking of would be more of an incentive to use DW instead of simply trying to clone their experience from somewhere else.
As regards using people's email address books, speaking for myself there are only a few people I currently know on LJ or DW whose emails I even have. When I can comment to and PM people easily, there isn't a lot of reason to gather their emails, and the ones I have may likely not even be up to date