where do we go from here?
Dec. 2nd, 2007 19:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhasix apart sold LJ to moscow-based SUP.
*makes a big bag of popcorn*. ah yes, how excellent that six apart acquisition was for users, what a glorious 3 years it's been. *guffaw*. good riddance to bad rubbish.
i've got nothing per se against russian companies, but alas this won't mean we lose the crappy PROTECT act (while acquiring putin's idea of free-speech), since livejournal inc. will be an american company. just one paragraph, and i can tell why getting away from six apart (whom i've come to loathe) in and of itself won't be exciting me quite as much as it otherwise might:
It's been clear for some time that doing the right thing for LiveJournal would require being a lot more ambitious; it would take an even bigger investment in and commitment to this community. It would take a team dedicated exclusively to LiveJournal--one that can build on the commitment to technological innovation and invention for which LiveJournal is known. And it would take some creative thinking. It would take SUP.
too fucking much corpspeak. actually IME more ambition tends to ruin the experience.
alas all i know about SUP is that they have a great hankering for advertising. but at least the announcement was where it was supposed to be, and there seems to be a plan in place (though one needs to subscribe to yet another couple new comms to hear about that and policy changes). that is refreshing, actually, that there is a plan, and that people are being told about it ahead of time. that there will be an advisory board with actual users on it. 6A never seemed to give a fuck for LJ other than seeing it as a company to mine, they never understood the culture, while SUP seems to at least have a dedicated interest in the codebase. so, while LJ might become a western cash cow for SUP, the codebase won't suffer from that, and might even improve.
best comment to the news post.
ghods, the wank, the wank in the comments. i may loathe 6A, but the average LJ user is a fucking moron. yeah, we're about to be swallowed by soviet russia, baby! hide in your jammies under the stairs!
wired article on last year's licensing deal with SUP. i guess this means the russian LJ community will overall be very unhappy with these news.
*makes a big bag of popcorn*. ah yes, how excellent that six apart acquisition was for users, what a glorious 3 years it's been. *guffaw*. good riddance to bad rubbish.
i've got nothing per se against russian companies, but alas this won't mean we lose the crappy PROTECT act (while acquiring putin's idea of free-speech), since livejournal inc. will be an american company. just one paragraph, and i can tell why getting away from six apart (whom i've come to loathe) in and of itself won't be exciting me quite as much as it otherwise might:
It's been clear for some time that doing the right thing for LiveJournal would require being a lot more ambitious; it would take an even bigger investment in and commitment to this community. It would take a team dedicated exclusively to LiveJournal--one that can build on the commitment to technological innovation and invention for which LiveJournal is known. And it would take some creative thinking. It would take SUP.
too fucking much corpspeak. actually IME more ambition tends to ruin the experience.
alas all i know about SUP is that they have a great hankering for advertising. but at least the announcement was where it was supposed to be, and there seems to be a plan in place (though one needs to subscribe to yet another couple new comms to hear about that and policy changes). that is refreshing, actually, that there is a plan, and that people are being told about it ahead of time. that there will be an advisory board with actual users on it. 6A never seemed to give a fuck for LJ other than seeing it as a company to mine, they never understood the culture, while SUP seems to at least have a dedicated interest in the codebase. so, while LJ might become a western cash cow for SUP, the codebase won't suffer from that, and might even improve.
best comment to the news post.
ghods, the wank, the wank in the comments. i may loathe 6A, but the average LJ user is a fucking moron. yeah, we're about to be swallowed by soviet russia, baby! hide in your jammies under the stairs!
wired article on last year's licensing deal with SUP. i guess this means the russian LJ community will overall be very unhappy with these news.
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on 2007-12-03 05:59 (UTC)WTF lj is such a big disappointment i wish all my favorite yaoi communities would transfer to Gj so we all can try our luck there.
Thanx for the info i could have died in ignorance here
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on 2007-12-03 17:24 (UTC)the yaoi_daily project seems to have stalled a little, and my biggest problem with it has been that it uses wordpress-MU as its engine, which i think (after working with it for several weeks) can't handle the features people want most, not without a dedicated code monkey working on it hard for some time. but the people have the right spirit.
GJ doesn't seem to me like an improvement, we know even less about the people who run it than we know about 6A or SUP. at least the owner of insanejournal has made some public statements, but i am sorry, i am not going to start a journal on a service with that name. deadjournal was funny at the time as a counter to livejournal, insanejournal is just inane (*heh*).
good for you that you're studying. it sucks, but you know, once you've passed and you're done with it, it's over, and it'll open a lot of doors in the future.
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on 2007-12-03 15:39 (UTC)My own suspicion is that SUP gets enough revenues from their advertisement that they bought out 6A for the sole reason of not having to share back with them.
(Thus far, as at least a tangential member of the Russian LJ community I've found SUP's livejournal.ru portal pretty ignorable. The sorts of things they do _seem_ to be the sorts of things that'll attract new users, but may or may not be of any use to existing ones.)
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on 2007-12-03 17:26 (UTC)i am not cheered by the idea that bigotry might do the job nannying didn't.