The Pain Of Growth

As the Blellow turns...

Blellow is still growing, both in features and in users, and there is starting to be smaller and smaller times where posts are few and far between. More and more features, some obvious and some not so obvious are popping up every day. The Blog is really picking up, several guest bloggers are doing well posting freelancing stuff.

The staff has been really great, answering questions and keeping things going. If there's one thing they're doing wrong, it's caring too much about what we think. Yeah, there are some things that you can ask people their opinions on, but when you are the people that brought something from the ground up, there are some things you should not be asking your users.

I love that the community is so interactive with the moderators and creators of Blellow...but I challenge them to keep a few things to themselves. I'm sure there are things they know that we don't...but maybe its time to increase that list of things that is their business and not mine.

Growth And Maturity

With Blellow now approaching 5000 users (per Mandi, Blellow's CEO), the community is really starting to grow and take shape. Some of the high profile social media folks are taking notice and beginning to contribute, which while adding to Blellow's legitimacy, does not completely define it, as many users have made quite a home on Blellow and are contributing not only to the main site, but to the blog as well.

I don't want to jinx it either, but there has been a tremendous lack of spam within the site as well. It may be because of the relative size of Blellow, but I think something built into the site itself has something to do with it as well.

The site officers have stated that things are finally approaching where they saw Blellow before the beta tag was removed, and with a few more additions, its hoped that Blellow will go fully operational in about six weeks. Whether there will be some giant public launch, I don't know, especially since a party as large as SxSw was the beta launch...it may be hard to top that, or the tweetup they cohosted recently.