Comments | nimoloth: Rumour or Fact, Who Knows

nimoloth

Rumour or Fact, Who Knows

Jan 06, 2009 11:54

[Edit 7th Jan: official statement released.]

There are rumours afoot that all is not well in Livejournal, that a good number of employees have just been laid off with no severance package, and that the Russian owners may not keep the site going.

Exhibit 1 - a questionably accurate and rather sensationalist and annoying article from a site known ( Read more... )

Comments 8

loriel_eris January 6 2009, 12:12:47 UTC

Also: http://xb95.livejournal.com/635394.html?style=mine

[Poster is one of the 4 designing Dreamwidth. Was on the LJ staff for an (extended?) period of time.]

And: http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/302379.html

[Worked for LJ for years. Is also one of 4 designing Dreamwidth.]

nimoloth January 6 2009, 12:17:29 UTC

Hmm - it's not looking great. I hear you can import cvs archived entries to things like Wordpress though, or maybe Blogger, if it comes to it.

loriel_eris January 6 2009, 12:26:44 UTC

*sigh* I really do not want to be thinking about this. I think I tagged some of the 'Save Your LJ Contents' posts from the strikethrough debacle in my delicious account. It might be time to go and actually read the posts...

longhairedhippy January 6 2009, 12:54:20 UTC

Thanks for the heads-up. I've got five years of my life on here, wouldn't like to lose them.

I'll get a copy of that archiving tool later today.

novak January 6 2009, 17:15:51 UTC

You just officially scared the bajeebers out of me.

kilo_foxtrot January 6 2009, 23:05:45 UTC

Yours is the second similarly-themed post on my friends list today. Both you and the other source aren't known for making wild, flighty claims... so I think it's worth paying attention.

In the past, I've used LJ Book to generate a PDF backup of my LJ.

I suppose I'd better visit the site again, since I never did back up the backups...

moonrise January 7 2009, 01:45:37 UTC

So someone linked me here for the story... and I just had to say your layout is beautiful ♥

nimoloth January 7 2009, 07:22:22 UTC

Thanks! I've had this one for ages now - i like it so much I can't bear to change it *g*. It has a few bugs depending on the browser and fonts installed on the computer, but I haven't got round to making it more robust yet. It's a modification of the Expressive layout type.