Well, shit

[textualdeviance]

So, with LJ laying off half its staff, that's putting everyone in a panic. And making it hard to do LJArchive backups.

However! Thanks to my packrat tendencies, I have an already-built archive already. Mostly. I've been doing e-mail comments since I started my journals, and I've never deleted any of those. So any entry I got a comment on is already fully archived in Outlook.

Now to just go back and self-comment on a bunch of entries that didn't have comments...


Truthfully, though, I don't think this is the end of LJ. There are too many users here and it's too active to actually be closed. It'll probably just end up being taken over by a smaller company or turned over to user management (!)

I admit that I'm pissed off, though. They dropped tons of cash into trying to make it a MySpace clone. And then when that failed, they tried to make it a Facebook clone. They should've just left it alone to begin with.

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

So basically it looks like they're turning over all design and tech ops to Moscow.

I'm not sure what to think of this, really. I don't know who's been responsible for some of the ridiculous stuff they've pulled in the last couple of years (like the horrid redesign of the info page) so it could be good or bad.