Comments | lj_advisory: June 2009

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June 2009

Jun 19, 2009 11:48

MinutesAdvisory Board Meeting ( Read more... )

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julieannie June 19 2009, 21:24:35 UTC

Remember how in every other post we demanded minutes and not an agenda? I'm glad to know you weren't listening.

aidian June 19 2009, 22:13:45 UTC

Welcome to Livejournal - all the administration, none of the "sit the hell down and do some programming". I continue to advocate my "nerds locked in a basement with pizza and source code" method of change.

*Are* there any programmers working for LJ anymore? Or is it just a place for management and marketing personnel to go... to die?

[oops, edited for spelling]

cesy June 20 2009, 08:56:48 UTC

They fired a lot of the programmers back in January. They still have a couple, but not many.

aidian June 20 2009, 18:39:48 UTC

The site will develop itself and magically become relevant again if the management and advisory staff have more vague meetings. It was clearly the right thing to do. Programmers just smell bad and take up space anyways.

anthologie June 20 2009, 01:19:39 UTC

These are not minutes.

radiantsoul June 29 2009, 09:45:52 UTC

I wonder what proportion of existing users are really interested in monetising their journals. My suspicion is that it is likely to be quite low, moreover the average journal has such a small readership that any revenue is likely to be minute.

So is the aim of allowing people to monetise their journals and attempt to appeal to other potential groups(such as corporations, etc).

What is livejournal going to get from this, is it going to get a share of the revenue or is it about merely increasing traffic to the website?

I presume that a monetised journal would be far less likely to be friends locked and operate on a broadcast model. Is this an attempt to enter into new market(perhaps those that SixApart are involved in). The fact this is over a year since the sale might mean a restriction placed at that time has expired...