I have a question, based on an on-going problem when it comes to running a game.
I've been managing rpgs for 10+ years, and for most of that time I've hosted my games on IJ, LJ, and Jcink forums. I've been split between IJ and Jcink, and ever since I first moved to journal rps, I prefer the atmosphere/community part of journals over forums, and all because of OOC expectations: namely the c-box, or lack thereof!
For anyone who doesn't know, a c-box is like a miniature chat-room you can paste into the side-bar or footer of your rpg forum. People use it mostly for ooc chatter, some staff use it for announcements, some games have a separate IC box and OOC box for rapid-fire 'non-canon' threads, things like that.
With journal games, since javascript isn't allowed, there are no c-boxes. You just log into your IC account, post, log out. You don't stay 'online, in the rpg' for hours on end, chatting to other players.