ok, this time it's really gone too far
Um, guys?
Please tell me that in California, December 3 is April Fools' Day?
I don't know whether to feel more shocked and betrayed, or like an idiot for not having already left Livejournal in the dust after this summer.
I remember when LJ first brought in SUP to manage some aspects of the Russian LJs, and how many serious concerns the Russian user community had at that time. I simply can't make myself believe that those concerns have gone away.
Six Apart, you make me sick.
And yes, it's lovely that in SUP-land LJ, there will be user reps on your advisory board. I'm thrilled. But too little, too late, too impossible to right the larger wrong. I'm not going to stick around just to be thrown bones.
Anyone got the roundup on the latest best tools to use to download full copies of one's journal including all comments/collpased threads? And where, exactly, have most of my friends been fleeing to lately?
eta: Not planning anything rash and immediate, but this qualifies as a third strike for me. I can't take not knowing if I can trust the people who own the place I journal, and this seems as good a time to move all serious uses somewhere else as ever, if the summer wasn't enough in itself. I have a very hard time, right now, believing that this change can make things *better*.
eta 2:
Tracked down a few links from the initial SUP/LJ collaboration in 2006:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/25/opinion/edmorozov.php
http://brad.livejournal.com/2261770.html
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060?currentPage=all (This one interestingly says that SUP wanted to buy LJ outright from the get-go, and near the end has good bits on user reaction to the idea of their data being under the control of a Russian company, given the corrupt business environment there.)
Also, this ZDNet post says it best - 6A "jettisoned" LJ.
Please tell me that in California, December 3 is April Fools' Day?
I don't know whether to feel more shocked and betrayed, or like an idiot for not having already left Livejournal in the dust after this summer.
I remember when LJ first brought in SUP to manage some aspects of the Russian LJs, and how many serious concerns the Russian user community had at that time. I simply can't make myself believe that those concerns have gone away.
Six Apart, you make me sick.
And yes, it's lovely that in SUP-land LJ, there will be user reps on your advisory board. I'm thrilled. But too little, too late, too impossible to right the larger wrong. I'm not going to stick around just to be thrown bones.
Anyone got the roundup on the latest best tools to use to download full copies of one's journal including all comments/collpased threads? And where, exactly, have most of my friends been fleeing to lately?
eta: Not planning anything rash and immediate, but this qualifies as a third strike for me. I can't take not knowing if I can trust the people who own the place I journal, and this seems as good a time to move all serious uses somewhere else as ever, if the summer wasn't enough in itself. I have a very hard time, right now, believing that this change can make things *better*.
eta 2:
Tracked down a few links from the initial SUP/LJ collaboration in 2006:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/25/opinion/edmorozov.php
http://brad.livejournal.com/2261770.html
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060?currentPage=all (This one interestingly says that SUP wanted to buy LJ outright from the get-go, and near the end has good bits on user reaction to the idea of their data being under the control of a Russian company, given the corrupt business environment there.)
Also, this ZDNet post says it best - 6A "jettisoned" LJ.