Support means just that.

[azurelunatic]

So 13 people are known to have lost their jobs with the US-based branch of LiveJournal.com, with a week's notice and no severance package beyond accumulated time off. The Valley Wag has done its usual level of careful fact-checking (this is where the audience laughs knowingly) before publishing

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[shadesong]

Soooo. What are some good LJ backup tools for the Mac?

[snakeling]

LJ Migrate.
Backs up posts, comments and usericons, and migrates posts to the LJ clone of your choice.

Easy to use, especially for *nix users (which includes Mac OS X). Slightly more painful for Windows users, as they're not really used to command line and need to install Python.

[write_light]

This program will back up, but not migrate, comments, just FYI.

[snakeling]

Yes, that's what I said :)

[lady_angelina]

Ahhhh... I was wondering what your earlier post (from before I went to bed last night) was talking about. =/ Found out from several other people's posts this morning, as well. That bites hard. =(

[kseniia]

Q: Where did you get your numbers? Just curious.

[azurelunatic]

Gossip from closer to the source than the Valley Wag. (I don't want to get anyone in trouble, so there's less detail in this post than there was.)

[kseniia]

*Nods* I get it. Do you know if LJ and/or SUP will speak out about the cuts?

[azurelunatic]

They will probably have to, but I have no idea when or what they're going to say other than this brief statement: http://twitter.com/LiveJournal/status/1099760975

[edit: their link is to their corporate news, which has no news any more recent than mid-December at this point in time.]

[cz_unit]

There you are. LTNS.

I think what bothers me about this is it's a reminder yet again that the Internet is ephemeral. I remember 20 years ago working on the first TinyMUD; it went away one weekend without a trace; that was a year's worth of my creativity lost in an instant.

Taught me a lesson though: When you outsource things you lose some control. And in a way LJ is an out-sourcing of my friend-contact-keep in touch thing. And my diary for the past 6 years. I should have a backup if needed.

Life's little lessons.
Chris

[azurelunatic]

As my journal's subtitle says, LJ is nearly a prosthetic memory to me.

[7rin]

So glad it's not just me. :s

Why is it at the first sign of trouble I run over to see what you've said? Oh, I know, 'cause you're awesome at being reasonable - at least in public at any rate.

I haven't done IRC in forever (and never on any of the LJ stuff), but pass on my best to those that've been ditched, please.

[azurelunatic]

I can be as unreasonable as I want to in private. :D That, and I got most of my incoherent swearing done on Twitter and in IRC.

I passed along your best wishes.

[stagemanager]

The cynical part of me notices the timing of the Permanent Account sale and this announcement. Coincidence? I think not.

Although, realistically, it could be that the PA sale was a way to try to raise cash to fend off any type of layoffs; if so, it didn't work.

[azurelunatic]

Brad's commentary back in the day indicated that permanent accounts were for quick cash.

And I heard also that people had time over the holidays off above and beyond the holidays themselves, and I'm not sure whether that other time was paid or not (I am speculating possibly not).