I’ve been doing a lot of work with LiveJournal/WordPress lately, and have been seeing that there are some passionate LJ users who are loyal to the platform largely for a few specific reasons/features. It seems like those features would mostly be pretty easy to replicate on WP though, given its flexible plugin system.
The main features that LJ supports that WP is (or was) “missing” seem to be:
- Robust permissions (create a group of people, grant them access to view a post, but no one else, etc)
- Support for integrated “metadata” on posts such as Current Music, Current Mood, etc
- Reply to comments directly via the notification emails you get
- Threaded comments
- Userpics