So, you may have heard that half the LiveJournal U.S. staff was laid off. Obviously, LJ's not going anywhere in a hurry, since the Russian owners are still out there, but who knows what service is going to be like? And if the plug might eventually be pulled ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement

Remember the FanHistory wiki? See my tagged entries under fanhistory:expose to read about the fiasco that went down over the summer, if you're unaware ( Read more... )

First, some follow-up to this post.

It's become evident that FanHistory on the whole is far more about generating revenue for its owner than being a resource for the fandom it's supposed to serve. Some pretty damning evidence was provided in the comments on my initial post, but liviapenn has a far more comprehensive writeup about it: [ link] I would hazard ( Read more... )

Overall note: It's been brought to my attention that FanHistory is probably making money off the extra hits generated by this drama. I have rerouted all FH links through an anonymizer to avoid contributing to such revenue. If you'd prefer not to visit FanHistory at all, screencaps of the linked pages are also provided. In the interest of protecting ( Read more... )