The Return of Livejournal

[tabaqui]

By: Neal Ungerleider

LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users. Oh, and "Game Of Thrones" creator George R.R. Martin is a big user.

Comments

Dear LJ Staff:

[dark_puck]

LiveJOURNAL.

LiveJOURNAL.

LiveJOURNAL.

I WILL REPEAT THIS UNTIL YOU GET IT IN YOUR HEADS!

[foureyedgirl]

fucking this

[tabaqui]

So much this. Damnit.

[age_of_green]

Well Dreamwidth is still safe for now right?

[screamingintune]

Dreamwidth is safe, but I can never get excited about it, because the content is still here.

[kyakki]

On the upside, DW is working on importing communities. With any luck, the content WILL be there soon.

[screamingintune]

but ONTD and ontd_p won't be moving over there, and those are the two comms I frequent the most :/

[nagasasu]

Oh gosh. Something about ONTD crashes my laptop. Repeatedly. Often. Frequently. Do not want on other communities.

[kitanabychoice]

meh. I do not enjoy the route LJ is taking, especially when the "small-but-loyal" demographic has carried them through this far and really, do they expect people to pay for a facebook clone? facebook itself is free and anyone who wants one is free to have one.

[effervescent]

Realistically, paying users are just supplemental income, now. The big bucks come from ads.

[mirhanda]

But ads are so easy to avoid. They don't get any money from me, even vicariously through ads.

[effervescent]

Oh, they are, but obviously a lot of people don't use blockers. There are also the sponsored accounts, etc... It's just obvious from the way that they treat paying users that the fact that they are paying users can't mean much.

[layweed]

I don't give a rats ass about these changes. Fix the goddamn commenting system and ads and shit that your user community has problems with.