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When LiveJournal, Inc., was launched in December the new team made it very clear that LiveJournal was going to change. We also said that we would respect the values and legacy of LiveJournal. But, we can’t ignore the fact that as LiveJournal nears its second decade it needs to make some business decisions

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You may not intend to undermine it

[speck]

But you do, over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Woo. First Post.

[speck]

No "In before the wank" posts. I win. :(

To save your lj history;

[dharma_slut]

http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive

This software will download your entire journal onto your computer-- and it will also handle communities.

Wordpress, I know, has an excellent import setup that will upload your journal perfectly. You can even preserve the comments.

Re: To save your lj history;

[aronwy]

Thank you very much. I appreciate the option to cut and run. LJ is really making me more and more annoyed.

Re: To save your lj history;

[karena]

Thank you! I had lost the link! Now I know what I'll be doing for the rest of the day! :D

Re: To save your lj history;

[jigsawdiva]

Thanks! I dunno if I'm going, but I'll definitely use this option either way!

worst. idea. ever. - according to YOUR LJ ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

[speck]

http://danahboyd.livejournal.com/1396.html
http://brad.livejournal.com/2368071.html

Re: worst. idea. ever. - according to YOUR LJ ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

[eljayissucking]

Thanks for posting this! I was wondering if they even consulted them.

What a pack of idiots these new decision-makers are proving themselves to be!

Re: worst. idea. ever. - according to YOUR LJ ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

[girlrac3r]

lol sounds like my work.

First, stop lying.

[speck]

second,

Second, stop lying. Stop calling us BLACKMAILERS and saying we're tying you to a stupid decision

[speck]

Seriously. Because we complain about something stupid you do, we are blackmailing you and you can't change your mind because you don't give into blackmailers? That's a crock of crap.

So if you disagree with LJ policies, if you are unhappy because of issues ranging from deletion of journals to the censoring of the popular interests lists to the proliferation of ads to the removal of basic accounts and you say so, if you're annoyed with LJ's habit of making significant changes and trying to slip them under the radar, you're a problem. Unless you can give "constructive criticism" by Anton Novik's definition, you're out to "bring harm to LJ, its founders" and to "criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation". You're not a partner in a community, you're not a content provider: you're a consumer, and a good consumer shuts up and doesn't complain.

I've never been good at the whole shutting up and not complaining thing. I don't see any reason to start now.

"Because of the blackmail that has begun, our hands are tied."

Third, try thinking things through. WE ARE NOT BLACKMAILERS

[speck]

We are legit users with legit complaints.

So if you disagree with LJ policies, if you are unhappy because of issues ranging from deletion of journals to the censoring of the popular interests lists to the proliferation of ads to the removal of basic accounts and you say so, if you're annoyed with LJ's habit of making significant changes and trying to slip them under the radar, you're a problem. Unless you can give "constructive criticism" by Anton Novik's definition, you're out to "bring harm to LJ, its founders" and to "criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation". You're not a partner in a community, you're not a content provider: you're a consumer, and a good consumer shuts up and doesn't complain.

I've never been good at the whole shutting up and not complaining thing. I don't see any reason to start now.

"Because of the blackmail that has begun, our hands are tied."

And ask yourself, "If this is something I feel is a good decision to blow users off as BLACKMAILERS"

[speck]

both for the company and the users - who we think can't read Russian ...

So if you disagree with LJ policies, if you are unhappy because of issues ranging from deletion of journals to the censoring of the popular interests lists to the proliferation of ads to the removal of basic accounts and you say so, if you're annoyed with LJ's habit of making significant changes and trying to slip them under the radar, you're a problem. Unless you can give "constructive criticism" by Anton Novik's definition, you're out to "bring harm to LJ, its founders" and to "criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation". You're not a partner in a community, you're not a content provider: you're a consumer, and a good consumer shuts up and doesn't complain.

I've never been good at the whole shutting up and not complaining thing. I don't see any reason to start now.

"Because of the blackmail that has begun, our hands are tied."

"good for LJ, good for users who spend so much time detailing feedback and ideas, not BLACKMAILING "

[speck]

So if you disagree with LJ policies, if you are unhappy because of issues ranging from deletion of journals to the censoring of the popular interests lists to the proliferation of ads to the removal of basic accounts and you say so, if you're annoyed with LJ's habit of making significant changes and trying to slip them under the radar, you're a problem. Unless you can give "constructive criticism" by Anton Novik's definition, you're out to "bring harm to LJ, its founders" and to "criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation". You're not a partner in a community, you're not a content provider: you're a consumer, and a good consumer shuts up and doesn't complain.

I've never been good at the whole shutting up and not complaining thing. I don't see any reason to start now.

"Because of the blackmail that has begun, our hands are tied."

"And is not likely to bring dozens upon dozens of users to the top of their lungs again."

[speck]

Or worse

Re: "And is not likely to bring dozens upon dozens of users to the top of their lungs again."

[visionari]

To be honest, absolutely anything they do - including doing nothing at all - is going to "bring dozens upon dozens of users to the top of their lungs".

Which is not to say that TPTB haven't made any boneheaded decisions; obviously, they have. But people being people, somebody's going to piss and moan no matter what.