Oh, I wasn't talking about the technical aspect of comms. More about the "centre of gravity" aspect as most fandoms exist well outside of LJ/DW nowadays, so the experience of myself and others as we look to start a comm is finding, at best, one or two related comms that haven't seen a post in 5 years, or nothing at all! So the conception part about finding existing active comms, trying to join them as mods etc feel a bit like considerations from another time, to me! :D

I forgot about the LJ scheduling! That's cool. And it's so nice someone was there with you to help you from the start. I started the comm more to find my people on Dreamwidth, so I'm building those relationships slowly :D Calls for help haven't resulted in much so far, but many people are still trying to become comfortable with posting vs commenting so we might get there over time!! I'll continue to send them out, and doing it several times to help the shyer people make up their mind is a good idea as well.

Thanks for the additional thoughts!