Don't Make Something What It's Not

Blellow beta is still going, and having gotten a little publicity from members and outside sources, the community at large is growing steadily now, which is good. But with this growth is coming a large new group of people who didn't get the first line of information on Blellow before it launched, and are coming in with a lot less information than some of the rest of us did.

That's not a bad thing, because not everyone shares the same information. No two people do, in fact. Everyone's information is different, and everyone's ideas are. Since the staff of Blellow is so public and always asking for new ideas and things that we do and/or don't like about Blellow as a service, they're often getting suggestions....some good, and some not. It would take too long to list any of them, and I don't want to promote or piss off any specific Blellow users, so I won't.

One thing I have definately noticed over the past few days has been the "why can't this be more like 'insert other service here'." It's not supposed to be. Of course there are some similarites shared by many a social networking site, but they all have their differences. Taking a new setup that is built and marketed upon being different, and asking the people behind it to change things so they are the same as another service doesn't fit the idea of the new service. Blellow was made as it was for a reason, and it's doing a great job being itself. Blellow is not Twitter, or Facebook, or Digg, or Yahoo!Groups for that matter. It's Blellow. Leave it that way.