[LJ] Buy-out. Post for debating now open.

[dancefloorlandmine]

Given that there's sure to be some muttering on my friends-list about the newly announced sale of LJ to SUP (the company that's been running it in Russia for the last year), I hereby declare this a post on which you can discuss it, should you wish to - left open for linking and debate.

Personally, I think it could be a good thing, to have LJ go back to being run by an LJ-specific company, rather than being viewed mostly as a way to get advertising to people.

Even if I mutter about the description of LJ as "a social networking" product - which would at least explain SixApart's attempts to FaceSpace it.

For more information about the buyout, new communities lj_2008 and lj_policy have been created - the latter being a discussion board about LJ's policies, I believe with Brad Fitzpatrick on the policy committee again ...

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[arkady.livejournal.com]

So that would be why Sixapart went briefly down last night then. It happened at about 11:15pm; LJ and the SixApart status page were only down for about 5-10 minutes, but Vox, TypePad and TypeKey were down a little longer.