In any new web application, features should always withstand community. An application should always teach you something new.
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In any new web application, features should always withstand community. An application should always teach you something new.
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# (1 of 1): Chris L » chrislott.org
2 weeks after the fact. (Thu 14 Jun 2007, 12:38 PM CST)
I see your point, but I guess for me, though one starts without contacts with an application like Twitter, I wouldn't continue using it if I didn't eventually find some people to follow and others to follow me. If I need an individual scratchpad I always have my notebook, wiki, Evernote, etc.
Other apps, like del.icio.us and perhaps to some degree blog apps, I might use even with no readers/fans/followers/etc... but even there the community of del.icio.us is what keeps me there-- the links I discover in the large pool of other users-- not the relatively unstable platform and unbeautiful interface.
Sufficient features are necessary... if an app doesn't do enough of what I want, then I will leave regardless of the community, but community is also necessary because, from my perspective, the community is itself a feature!