The Rediff Blog has been having a quick downward slide. Earlier, the Rediff Iland used to be one of best blogging platforms. Almost daily, I used to get at least twenty e-mail alerts regarding new posts of my blogger friends. After the inception of the new Rediff Blog, e-mail alerts to friends were stopped. Of course, there were friends’ updates on My page as well as on Home page, but they continued declining as many of the blogger friends left for the greener pastures. Presently, I am receiving updates about only one or two posts by my friends. On some days in succession, there are none. It means use of Rediff as blogging platform has been reduced to almost about 1/20th of the earlier use. Thus all and all are gone the old familiar faces. I am left here, stranded with a very few friends, hoping against hope that someday Rediff would regain its lost glory as a blogging platform.
Likewise, on each of my new posts, I used to receive more than twenty comments. Now the number is shrinking and has gradually come down to one or two.
When new Rediff Blog was introduced, I wrote to the administrator to restore the unique features of the old Iland. I posted write-ups too, enumerating about the lost features. In trying to become like other social networking sites, it had lost its uniqueness. But there has been no improvement. In desperation, most of the bloggers have considered it more convenient to leave Rediff than to impress upon the administrator.
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am finding it extremely difficult to post in here. am on facebook as ‘man indus.if u wish to catch up dear Hari.
sir ….mai rahul se poori tarah sehmat hu…………..mai bhi fb per kabhi -kabhi likhti hu………….per rediff… ”rediff” hai..mai-ne aaj tak us ka daaman pakda hai…………:))
kabhi nahi alag hui…….:))
regards!
Blogs thrive on members. As such I remember the old rediff iland - almost everyone had a complaint about it. Now that new rediff blogs have come - almost all of us have complaints about it too
The fact in my opinion is: if you are a writer, technical glitches don’t matter. We have just to be patient and wait for it to get over. But there are few writers and more people used it for social networking. And for social networking, technical glitches affect hard. So people left rediff blogs and went to other sites. I still see merit in maintaining our pages - non-serious bloggers would go where ever there is “traffic”. If we continue here at rediff, a time would come again when we would again have the masses here. Faces would change, but that is the law of nature. Old members gone, new bloggers would join.
We should also understand the life-cycle of any site or portal. After the initial curious period, things decline. The same has happened with Orkut, it is getting a deserted look. People are now hanging on to Facebook, but a time would come when they will leave that too.
Rediff blogs brought so many people to the blogging experience which no other site would have ever done. In new avatar, Rediff is still good. I like it.
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i agree totally
You are right Hariji. The death of this site is a tragedy.
Facebook is ok, but it is not the same. It is more like a friends’ circle. Iland was like a public platform, there was visibility, there was serendipity and you got to meet diverse people you never knew existed and you clicked and it was so good. And ofcourse there was anonymity that allowed a lot of people to speak their minds without hesitation. And there were those who disapproved of that. All of which added colour.
Where it went awry was when people could log in the exact same name and hacking began. That was a breach of security and then it got corrupted with the comments disappearing. All this the foolish admin addressed by changing the entire format and copying other blogsites. Pity they could not problem solve. Pity there is no one to oversee this site and read the writing on the wall. They had it so good and now it looks like it will become defunct soon.
Sir,
All of us are suffering from similar plight. The only suggestion i have is that most of your friends are on facebook. Post your blogs on the notes and paste the link on status update. You will find a good response. Rediff is dying a slow death. Even regulars like me come here very occasionally. If you see my last few blogs, you will notice that there are hardly any comments. You will find me on face book as Vivek Banerjee. I have sent you a friend request there.