Time to back-up your LJs, kids.

[rosiedoes]

Linked by sharpest_rose:

The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.


Maybe Brad can buy it back for a nominal fee and we can all be happy again?


Edit: I think I'm going to start copying my fic to Tumblr.
Edit 2: Actually, Tumblr sucks for that. Hm. Any recommendations for good blogs that would work for fic hosting? Preferably with commenting capacity and an LJ-cut style format to truncate posts?

In the meantime LJ Archive is a good idea for everyone.

Comments

[littlenothing.livejournal.com]

Haha! I was just about to post this in mine. Sorry for the duplication...

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

It's cool, don't worry - I just ripped it off from someone else myself, and I think the news is going to spread pretty damn quickly here.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I back up my journal fairly regularly. Should probably make a start on saving all the crap in my scrapbook and anything I want to keep that I have in memories.

Though I kind of hope some way to keep the site going is found...

[moondarri.livejournal.com]

i'm getting my head very slowly around this. so, basically the implication is that, if no one buys back livejournal, it'll disappear into oblivion?

man. the digital age makes everything so fleeting.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like the company who bought it are in trouble - they laid off a huge number of staff and didn't even give them redundancy payments.

If they decide that LJ isn't making enough money to be profitable, they'll either sell it, or close the site entirely.

The reason this has happened is because they tried to run it as a quick-buck business, where in fact, LJ should always have been a service-orientated endeavour.

If Brad, and I don't blame him for this, hadn't sold the business, but had basically sought help from people with better business acumen, he would have been able to run it at a small profit (enough to keep one dude happy, at least) and the ethos would have remained the same as it was when I joined about six or seven years ago.

[failboats.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because i'm a very slow person or because it's my first day back at school, but it took me about 20 minutes to understand the LJ Archive website.

[eruwenfuin.livejournal.com]

Might I ask why it´s such a bad fic host?

I know about the lack of a Tumlbr tag cloud, but there´s an easy peasy copy paste on out there.

Good luck with the backing up though!

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have the capacity to LJ-cut or anything similar, so you have to post entire chapters or fics and swamp your journal/friends list with scrolling.

[amalthiakt.livejournal.com]

www.inksome.com

If you want an invite code, I'll give you one. I'm amalthiakt over there too.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Dude, that looks awesome.

I'll check it out properly tomorrow. Thanks for telling me about it.

[amalthiakt.livejournal.com]

No prob. Two of my good IRL friends are beta testers/friends of the creator/FAQ writers and we all write and RP a LOT and Inksome's just about the best thing since sliced bread. Its AWESOME.