LJ in the media: The Return of LiveJournal

[theljstaff]

Check out this Fast Company article for a glimpse of what you can expect at LiveJournal in 2012.

"LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users. Oh, and "Game Of Thrones" creator George R.R. Martin is a big user."

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Comments

[maffinoyobiai]

Dumb move, LJ. All the people who use LJ for things like sharing icons and graphics they made, will find somewhere else.

[totheseaside]

Bye.

[xpaperplanex]

Wow, linking that on the homepage is ballsy, to say the least. I suppose it's nice to know that you really couldn't care less about your current users. However, has it occurred to anyone that that's a really, really idiotic business practice? Really, it is. If you can get new users without alienating your old ones, then you have old users + new users and that actually adds up to more than new users - old users. Math is wacky like that.

[bloodcurdling]

[bloodcurdling]

[awry]

Which if you notice not even the LJ Staff are using the new comment pages. lol.

[zeitgeistic]

Why are you linking us to an article that states flat out you don't care about us?

[seishin]

the only logical reasoning I can think of is that the US staff is trying to send out an 'abandon ship' notice to the users, since they effectively can't do anything else without losing their jobs.

The way things are going though, I hope they have their resumes polished up and ready. :/