Interesting comments and observations as usual. A guess regarding what the next ...

tokenadult · on May 20, 2013

value proposition: interacting with cool people that you don’t know

Yahoo Groups hosted email lists have allowed me to interact with cool people whom I've never met in person for years. I value them highly for that. But that has never allowed Yahoo to monetize Yahoo Groups very well.

pnathan · on May 20, 2013

That was sort of part of the point of Livejournal.

thenomad · on May 20, 2013

Was and is. It's still a very active community site, and there are people (like me) who feel that it's never really been replaced by anything similar.

pnathan · on May 20, 2013

Yeah! I've had a great affinity for LJ, and these days my private blog is on a fork, Dreamwidth.org.

Hands down, I've never seen a better longform & community site design.