[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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[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Ahem. * SNORK * Said Nile, discreetly. Who somehow makes lots of friends when the Moscow Dojo fly in for Aikido seminars in England. All the pretty ones are on LJ and some of them are on my FriendsList.

Also, the mad ones. But they're Russian: it's kind of the same thing.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

But they're Russian: it's kind of the same thing.
I'm now getting Babylon 5 flashbacks ... [grin]

[christhegoth.livejournal.com]

Ruskies+++ bonkers and loving it. Those crazy ferners ;)