So far I've created a lens on Squidoo, a journal on LiveJournal, and blogs on blog.com and OnSugar.
It tends to be the case that large and successful sites have the worst interfaces. PayPal and ezinearticles are good examples. Web 2.0 communities are no exception. Squidoo and LiveJournal are the big fish in the pond, and their systems are truly atrocious.
For example, Squidoo kept haranguing me about content not being sufficient. Insufficient? I'd just typed up about 6,000 characters. To make Squidoo happy, I had to break it into several "modules".
LiveJournal, meanwhile, treat their users like preschoolers who have to state their name and favorite color. It's an insulting and degrading process. Their website is so slow I read not just one but two BBC articles while waiting for the sign-up form to load. It would be excusable if the design were worth waiting for but LiveJournal is the exact opposite of eye candy. The themes are eye cod-liver oil.
The web 2.0 campaign is proving successful, however, as Qirina is starting to get more traffic.
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