Comments | rahirah: LJ migrating to Russian servers

rahirah

LJ migrating to Russian servers

Dec 29, 2016 22:41

Some info here: http://lynnenne.livejournal.com/285076.html

Comments 13

fenchurche December 30 2016, 06:53:19 UTC

Good to know... I wonder, too, if server migration might have been the source of some of the technical issues we've been having over the past few days.

feliciacraft December 30 2016, 19:00:36 UTC

That's my suspicion, too.

rahirah December 30 2016, 19:17:22 UTC

Yeah, the fact that they scheduled downtime recently in US prime time rather than the middle of the night is another suspicious point.

I just ran my LJ address through http://ping.eu/traceroute/ and it does seem to go through a Russian server now. :/

feliciacraft December 30 2016, 21:54:25 UTC

That's my suspicion, too.

readerjane December 30 2016, 11:59:16 UTC

Huh. I thought they had done that years ago, when LJ became part of Six Apart.

ETA: the last couple times I've renewed my account, I've used PayPal instead of a credit card. And our cc number has changed since the last time I used it with LJ. So at least that's covered.

snogged December 30 2016, 13:58:23 UTC

I use Paypal too.
I like that they made it an option.

rahirah December 30 2016, 19:22:08 UTC

No, Six Apart sold LJ to SUP, a Russian company, but the servers were still located in the US, and subject to US law. That's one reason why the Russian half of LJ was so attractive to Russian dissident bloggers of various kinds. If they've moved the servers to Russia, it's going to be bad news for them. Less bad for US bloggers in a political sense, because there's not much they could do to someone over here except delete their blog. But the fact is, the US side of LJ has been losing money hand over fist for years. So if the servers have been moved, that's one less reason for SUP to keep the non-Cyrillic service going.

lynnenne December 30 2016, 16:59:43 UTC

I updated the post with some additional info, including links on how to import content to DW.

rahirah December 30 2016, 19:22:25 UTC

Thanks!

feliciacraft December 30 2016, 19:00:05 UTC

Sigh. I'm OK with importing everything to DW, but I'm going to miss all the comments on my LJ journal entries.

rahirah December 30 2016, 19:22:43 UTC

DW import can do comments too!

hurry_sundown December 30 2016, 20:08:14 UTC

Thanks, Barb. This is the push I needed to bail out of LJ.

rahirah December 30 2016, 21:45:32 UTC

Yeah. I mean, I doubt the doors are gonna slam shut tomorrow, but this really isn't a good sign.