Poor LJ

[franceslievens]

My comment: economically speaking it's more interesting to sell something with a loss than simply pull the plug.

Comments

[avriisme.livejournal.com]

Have I missed something? Is lj going to be shut down?

[avriisme.livejournal.com]

Never mind! I found this article http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605367/livejournal-announces-mass-layoffs.html after I read your post. I have to say it's quite worrying. I'm sure I'd find somewhere else to go if lj closed down in the future, but there's a lot of things I'd like to save from previous posts. I'd have to go back through my entire journal, through 5 years of entries! - Perhaps I should start now... ;-)

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

That's the rumour, but I don't believe much of it. The Russians who bought LJ some time ago have fired a lot of people. Now the community believes it'll be the death of LJ. I haven't seen it yet on blogs outside LJ btw...

[avriisme.livejournal.com]

Hmm. So they're either doing it to protect lj and make sure it keeps going, or they're doing it as a last ditch attempt to hold off a shut down of lj... So... erm... it's either a positive or a desperate/negative move and no one knows which...? Haha.

[syderia]

Provided that they managed to sell it, which isn't sure in the current economic situation.
But well, I'm not too worried about LJ going down.