Real update pending - but quick question

[gina_r_snape]

Sorry sorry sorry flist. Real update IS pending, but my laptop needs fixing making it difficult to post something real.

But quickly - anyone here know who owns LJ now? Is it still a Russian-based company? I ask because of this: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28583669

Comments

[pennswoods]

Yes. Wikipedia says it's still SUP Media. Awe hell...

[nonelvis]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/16/livejournal-wants-to-be-medium/ and other sites say it's now owned by Rambler&Co. Still Russian, though.

[gina_r_snape]

Thanks

[gina_r_snape]

Thanks. I'm so conflicted.

[cmcmck]

Still Russian owned but Putin is shit scared of the anti government groups who use it and trying to bring it down by Ddos plainly isn't working.

[gina_r_snape]

Aaah yes all the DDoS attacks make sense in this context. Putin is a. Oh what's the Ukrainian word they are using now ... Huilo! Someone even named a star Putin Huilo. :snicker:

[cmcmck]

He's an arse, to use the good old fashioned anglo saxon term!

Hows stuff?

[gina_r_snape]

Oh, some good and some less good.

I have an update in me. But my internet has been down, and then my laptop went for repair.

[gina_r_snape]

:-(

[shootingshark]

aaaaand now i get to try to figure out how to download my last 5 or 6 years of posts quickly so i can delete them....

[gina_r_snape]

There is a program but it doesn't download photos and comments.