No Sympathy from Me, Livejournal

[evilawyer_fic]

So LJ's having DDoS attacks again. Which, to me, means that I (and yes, it is all about me) shouldn't be able to get onto to LJ. At all. But I can. And I can get all around all over it. Quite easily, too

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[calliopes_pen]

It's been fine for me for the last day or so. Prior to that was when access was horrific.

[evilawyer_fic]

I last had power on Wednesday morning, and it would let me get on to it but not crosspost from DW. Yesterday, when power came back on at my office, it did the same thing. Today, it did the exact same thing again. I find it suspicious that, in the midst of its reported problems, LJ somehow remains accessible directly, but blocks (because that's what the error message is saying when you decipher it --- not that the crosspost failed because of accessibility issues but that LJ actively blocked it) crossposts from a rival journal site.

[sandyosullivan]

I hear ya. I have always been annoyed with LJ, not the perpetrators about the DDoS attacks. All big companies get them, and social networking ones get them a lot... if there is a political issue, I don't want to hear about it, because - and this is the point - they make money off this, and they can make the financial decision to physically (and nodally) locate these in Iceland, where a lot of servers are now being located to avoid DDoS... but they won't, because they are trying to cheap it out. Feeling sympathy for corporations is not my style anyway, but the attempt to invoke and evoke sympathy from it's users makes me sick, it's manipulative, and - like you - I strongly suspect that it occasionally operates as a straw dog for changes in their operational practice.

[evilawyer_fic]

Everything you say is exactly what I think. LJ is a for-profit company, not a charity. Other companies in its position, if they want to stay competitive, get their shit together and take the necessary steps to keep delivering product. LJ's strategy is, as you say, to keep it on the cheap and cry "We're political victims! Poor us! Feel bad for us!" when it finally deigns to let its content-creators know what's going on. Manipulative and sickening, absolutely. And pathetic that there are people who fall for it.