Countdown to destruction...

[sarahbellem]

I'm kind of checking in and out of the news thread and a handful of people have brought up the question as to whether or not LJ made some kind of contractual deal with FB & Twitter to push users towards these other services. And now LJ is in a tight spot, legally speaking, because their customers are clearly screaming DO NOT WANT and packing up in

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[florentinescot]

There's every indication that they've drunk the koolaid, so to speak -- that it IS a contractual deal ...

http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html?thread=87841446#t87841446

[sarahbellem]

If it's integration, fine. I will accept the 8,000lb gorrilla in the room IF and only IF, they grant users the right to opt out.

[florentinescot]

nods. Exactly. For the folks that want it ok. But make it opt-IN -- or at the very least opt-out at the journal level.

Sure, there's the hack that keeps the boxes from showing up as long as your journal is viewed In YOUR style; but if I view it in my style, unless I have them turned off, they're right back there again. :-(

[trystbat]

That doesn't mean it's "contractual" -- it simply means that this is how LJ has designed it. Please remember that what LJ announces is exactly what it considers to be it's best features.

Press releases are not contracts. They are promotions.