User demand is lacking

Has anyone ever asked the livejournal people why they don't have a "new comments"/"updated thread" feature? Nested threads and the lack of an update/new comments feature are the two problems that make lj a worse format than ilX for ongoing discussion.

Of course, if people want a discussion they'll have one, and I'm here basically because discussion falters and founders on ilX. But it falters and founders everywhere, to some extent (and the average comment thread on ilX is vastly better than the average comment thread on the Web as a whole). Back to my original question, an answer might well be, "Because there isn't enough user demand for such feature."

Speaking of discussion, yesterday the convo about Rihanna lyrics migrated here ("Fire Bomb") and here ("Te Amo") (EDIT: and over to Dave's Tumblr, and somehow I missed Erika a few days ago here, with pre-revisionist Dave on the comment thread). And Chuck and I added lotsa new content to poptimists' artist shoutouts thread (with Chuck grumbling about how the convos there are already over before he gets a chance to contribute to them).

Meanwhile over on Tumblr, Maura writes (in regard to chillwave/beach-pop/wavegaze, a music genre, apparently, though if everything runs true to form I'll not hear any of it until no one's making it anymore, but anyway I'm linking Maura's post not for the music wave but for its relevance to dropped discussions):

Maybe this is another thing about the appeal of this particular music to people who write online — it's in some ways a reflection? People on all sides are trying to muddle through their creative impulses with tools that allow for instant publishing/dissemination, and by extension the impulse to get something out overtakes the impulse to make something "right" in whatever abstract sense.

( And Tom and I comment briefly on that )

EDIT: Kuhnian content on comment thread.

The 2004 campaign begins

I'm going away for a week on Monday, with partial computer access (but no sound), so I'll start the rah-rah now:

Here are some very good tracks from 2004 that I won't be able to nominate for the poptimists Best Of 2004 poll, since I've already got another ten picked out. (By the way, Ashlee's "La La" peaked in Britain in early 2005, so you can feel free to nominate other songs that you love that begin with L, though none of these do.)

No Lay - "Unorthodox Daughter"
Crime Mob - "Knuck If You Buck"
Method Man - "What's Happenin"
Jim Jones f. Juelz Santana and Cam'ron - "Crunk Muzik"
Big & Rich - "Real World"
Big & Rich - "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"
M.I.A. - "Galang"
Skye Sweetnam - "Hypocrite"
Skye Sweetnam - "Tangled Up In Me"
Ying Yang Twins f. Trick Daddy - "What's Happnin'"
Kelly Clarkson - "Hear Me"
Kelly Clarkson - "Addicted"
Miss B - "Bottle Action"
Toby Keith - "Whiskey Girl"
Ashlee Simpson - "Autobiography"
The Hold Steady - "Positive Jam"
Montgomery Gentry - "Gone"

EDIT: Lex, have you ever heard Miss B (or Ms. B, according to the video) "Bottle Action"? I embed it down in the comments.