This isn't a comment specific to the cosplay community part of your rant (which I truly did appreciate), but to the specifics of a web site. Ravelry *may* just be the exception to the general state of community web sites and social networks. That *so* many of my fiber art friends know of and are on Ravelry is rather interesting to me. Other communities I intersect with don't really have this same sort of central sharing point, but instead have a lot of decentralized, more personality-centered sharing points. I think in large part this may be due to the both the skill and interconnectedness of Ravelry's owner. It seemed to hit like a wildfire. All at once, every one of my fibery friends was "are you on Ravelry?!?!" and it just grew and grew.
I think it might be hard to achieve the same thing again; where in cosplay there seems to be a lot of different ideas, desires, and venues for sharing things, it might be hard to replicate something like Ravelry for the cosplay world.
My current world of creativity, as you know, is painting. I'd love to have something similar, but I think in the case of painting, it's a completely different world. DeviantArt is as close as it gets, I think, and it's really hard (at least for me) to feel any sense of community there.
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Date: 2012-02-09 03:14 am (UTC)From:I think it might be hard to achieve the same thing again; where in cosplay there seems to be a lot of different ideas, desires, and venues for sharing things, it might be hard to replicate something like Ravelry for the cosplay world.
My current world of creativity, as you know, is painting. I'd love to have something similar, but I think in the case of painting, it's a completely different world. DeviantArt is as close as it gets, I think, and it's really hard (at least for me) to feel any sense of community there.