Also it makes it look like DW is an active site because everyone is backing up there and creating a history that looks like we've been there for ages. I don't see why they should get that 'history'

Heh that's true, a lot of DW must just consist of back-up journals created from LJ. I must admit that I did do that myself because I found it so handy to be able to back it all up, but on the other hand I'm surprised that LJ ever allowed a rival platform to copy all of their codes (or whatever the technical term is) to the letter, it does seem a bit cheeky!

And cross-posting seems to be the big thing these days, but it just feels to me like it would be annoying to have comments in two separate places, that way there's much less chance of everyone seeing *all* of the coments and maybe joining in on a particular discussion. I've realised recently that a few entries on my flist that didn't get much response on LJ actually had a lot more comments over on DW, and at the time I'd no idea that there was more talk going on over there, so now I need to remember to try and keep track of the comments in both entries. It was so much easier when everything was all in one place :grumpy sigh: