I had a wishlist of features for the Journals at one point in time.
The ability to do the VBcode easily, embed pictures, email notification of comments and fellow journalists. I recall one member asking how come we didn't have more features like Live Journal, such as the ability to limit viewing to certain "friends." I didn't understand truly the functionality that is capable from the Live Journals.
With the new upgrade to the system and us not having journal access but posting in this hyperthreaded manner, it's giving us alot of those features, save the privacy features.
I do like getting emails that tell me who just posted a journal and the text of the journal in email. It would also be great to reply and it autopost your comment, but just getting it is really nice. Via my gmail account it gives me everything back in a threaded manner too so I'm able to follow the posts pretty easily too.
I'm not sure what is going to happen with the journal module. I don't know if we'll get any new features or if it's just the same thing. While I'd mourn the loss of the features, I definitely do enjoy the seperateness of the Journal community. I thought of it like going from party to party, club to club, then just taking a break and dropping the normal dialogue and start to reveal more intimate private thoughts.
Anyways, it made me think of this cartoon.
