There is dialogue on Tumblr, but to me it's really awkward and hard to follow and hard to reply to, and impossible to keep in one centralized, easily-readable place. And the tendency for high-school-level "telephone" games is off the fucking scale, in fact, it's difficult not to do that no matter how hard you try.

The two platforms have very different strengths and weaknesses. Both are useful and valuable - but I think LJ is suffering because Tumblr is so much about the instant gratification that it's very seductive. I want to keep both.