I suspect that clearer communication would've brought significantly more drama--of a different flavor.
Right now, there's drama saying, "wait, what? New archive whowhatwhere? No; I was comfy with old archive; new archive is big scary unknown." Which IMHO is a reasonable reaction, and it's unfortunate there's not much that can be done to mitigate that.
If the move had been announced with bells & whistles and email notifications to all previous YT authors, there would have been a swarm of "WTF no way huh why?" reactions, and a heaping side helping of "ack ack OTW taking over the faniverse; stop them!!!"
Not that those aren't happening, but they're not *much* feeding into the confusion and general unease that some authors have about the move. (I consider less than 10 argumentative posts a fairly small wankstorm. I think more active outreach-communication about the change would've resulted in dozens of confused and hostile posts all tangled up with each other.)
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Date: 2010-01-03 07:59 pm (UTC)Right now, there's drama saying, "wait, what? New archive whowhatwhere? No; I was comfy with old archive; new archive is big scary unknown." Which IMHO is a reasonable reaction, and it's unfortunate there's not much that can be done to mitigate that.
If the move had been announced with bells & whistles and email notifications to all previous YT authors, there would have been a swarm of "WTF no way huh why?" reactions, and a heaping side helping of "ack ack OTW taking over the faniverse; stop them!!!"
Not that those aren't happening, but they're not *much* feeding into the confusion and general unease that some authors have about the move. (I consider less than 10 argumentative posts a fairly small wankstorm. I think more active outreach-communication about the change would've resulted in dozens of confused and hostile posts all tangled up with each other.)