[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 ...

Comments

Re: I've got my priorities!!!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Yup, the company concerned has been running the Russian LJ for some time.

Every now and then I get friended by a Russian who doesn't bother checking my userinfo properly and assumes from my name that I'm Russian too. They're usually quite nice about it when I explain their mistake - though one girl thought that the ".uk" bit meant Ukraine....

Re: I've got my priorities!!!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

though one girl thought that the ".uk" bit meant Ukraine...
[grin]