Disturbing News About LJ

[mmerriam]

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

ETA: Valley Wag has some numbers wrong. Look down in the comment thread for more information that stillnotbored rustled up.

ETA2 by way of rm, more news here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html

Comments

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

eek

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Take a look at InsaneJournal as an alternative or bolthole.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yea, I hope it's not curtains for us...

[mylefteye.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed LJ weathers the storm, because I think it's the best social networking site by far. Incidentally, the second para really annoyed me: "The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known for its users' weird obsessions — like the troublesome clique of Harry Potter erotica writers..." Why do journalists feel the need to create a sensationalist angle on everything even when it's plain old bollocks?

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Not good news at all. This is home to me.

[kmarkhoover.livejournal.com]

You can use LJArchive to save all your stuff.

[rhfay.livejournal.com]

I keep basically the same blog on Blogger and MySpace. I've also got a profile on Facebook, with links to my Blogger blog. I'm prepared if LJ vanishes, but it would be sad. There seems to be more real interaction on LJ than the other blogging sites/social networks.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

If they shut this place down I'm going to be so very very pissed. Blogger sucks, you have no options to shut out anyone and face book is set up for children.

Gah. I'm paid up for a couple years.

[mgsmurf.livejournal.com]

Hopefully SUP is just trying to lean up the business and LJ itself will be safe. My flist would spread far and wide if LJ went under, and I'd likely have to replace it with several different blogging sites, InsaneJournal, Vox, Blogger, etc.