Uh oh... [Public entry!]

[ninamalfoy]

From here, The Return Of LiveJournal:

According to LiveJournal general manager Anjelika Petrochenko, LiveJournal's planning a major 2012 push based around attracting new users to community sites. Petrochenko told Fast Company that the blogging service was planning between 10-50 new community sites by the end of 2012. These new community sites will

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[ciryatan]

[...] their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership.

Niiiiiiiice. Except, you know, NOT.
Somehow I'm glad I never got myself a lifetime account. Phew.

[ninamalfoy]

It's so comforting to hear how much we mean to LJ, isn't it? /sarcasm

Me too. I won't shed a tear when my paid account expires on the 30th (it should have expired this week, but the bastards gave me an additional two weeks of paid time for the DDOS attacks... *throws up hands*). No more money for LJ. And with hearing this, I'll happily recommend DW over LJ to anyone.

[syredronning]

Danke für den Auszug und den Link, habs gleich mal weiter gepostet :)

Und SOIFZ, dass es so kommen muss.

[ninamalfoy]

Np, np. Gern geschehen! Hab's auf Twitter gesehen und dachte nur 'What the.' *mitSOIFZT*

[sweetestremedy]

Uh oh sums it up pretty well. Now if only I could make up my mind about jumping ship to DW... I just connect too many memories to my lj to give it up from one day to the other.

[ninamalfoy]

Hey, you don't have to give it up! Do you see me giving my ickle LJ up? Naaaah. I'll keep it as long as the company exists, and I'll still crosspost everything, the only difference is that I now prefer posting from a more accessible and user-friendly site. Like DW. *coughs* And they're also the ones who get my money instead of LJ. That's all.

Honestly, importing a LJ journal to DW is pretty easy, you get to keep all your comments from everyone and everything, icons and whatever, and then you just have to set-up the crossposting (which is also easy), and there you go. You only see that I'm crossposting from DW because of the 'crossposted from blah blah 0 comments' thing, but I could just delete this (it's customizable!) line as well and then no one would guess that I'm actually posting from somewhere. It's not twice the work, it's pretty much the same as before, which is pretty awesome. :-) [Also, if LJ should go under, I've got everything stored/mirrored at DW already. Tadaaa!]

*coughs* Sorry if I'm too 'DW IS AWESOME!'-gushy. ;-)

[beautifuljinx]

I did it yesterday and really, it was easy and did not hurt in the least! ;)
Still, I understand what you mean...

[allangtegek]

Jesus, when did they get so determined to shoot themselves in the foot like that? (I know, I know, years ago, but...)

They're not improvements, damn it!