Ugh, here we go again...

[vixalicious]

From krazycat: 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.

Two good options for backups:
LJBook
LJArchive

So we teeter on the edge of losing LJ. I literally won't know what to do with myself if that happens.

In the 'just in case' vein, I am:

on Insane Journal - this is probably where I'll go if LJ shuts down.

on Greatest Journal

on Journal Fen

feel free to friend me in any or all of those places, and let me know if there's somewhere else to be.

Comments

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

I hope they sell it to someone else, honestly. Someone who isn't after a quick buck.

[vixalicious]

The question is, in this economy, who's going to buy it? They'd have to change the way they stream ads to make any money, I'd think.

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

It's a shame fandom couldn't just chip in and buy it. We'll put on a show and raise money!!!1!!

[vixalicious]

It'd have to be a hell of a show to raise $30m!

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

Dude, we're talking about fandom here. There'd be filk written! And heartfelt pleas! And wank! And then more wank! Oh, wait...

[vixalicious]

Hee... yup, and at the end of it all, we'd actually be in the red.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Fans? I dunno.

[vixalicious]

It'd be hilarious to watch all the fandoms try to get together enough to do something like that.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

It would be the biggest wank in history.

[vixalicious]

With the quietest end, because by the end of it, the site would be dead.

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this information, I think I will create an In Emergency Only Break Glass Greatest Journal.

.....................what is happening to the world??? I blame greed.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Greatestjournal is seriously not the place to set up shop. It has been completely abandoned by its creators and will just get worse and worse until one day it just breaks.

[vixalicious]

Yeah, I agree - I would probably go to InsaneJournal myself.

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

eeks! I think Greatest Journal has broken now!!

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it shut down completely yesterday.

[vixalicious]

Has there been any official announcement, or just still that error page with the link to LJ?

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

That's as official as it gets, pretty much. They don't care enough to make a statement.

[vixalicious]

We do seem to be falling apart a bit. Hopefully it won't happen, but if LJ does go away, I'll probably go to InsaneJournal. They seem like they're trying.

[franzi1981.livejournal.com]

That article sounds awfully sensationalist, and very anti-LJ. I don't think anything will happen overnight. If it does go down, I think - HOPE - there'll be plenty of warning :P

But yeah, I'm franzi1981 on all of those sites as well. :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I literally won't know what to do with myself if that happens.

Me neither. I might not go anywhere, and just lose touch with everyone, and it would be horribly sad. :(