Another year, another round of LJ fail

[annathepiper]

For those of you who may not have seen this yet, this story started going around last night. I saw the LJ Twitter account link to it, so one presumes this is indeed legit. The article’s talking about future plans for LJ, and it’s looking like the ongoing trend of not giving a damn about the old-school LJ user base isn’t stopping for the foreseeable future. The money quote is this one:

LiveJournal’s leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service’s current small-but-loyal membership. The challenge for Petrochenko and other executives at LiveJournal will be redefining the brand’s identity in a crowded media marketplace.

The ONTD_political community is not amused. Neither is JF’s fandom_lounge.

I am not abandoning LJ quite yet. But I HAVE shifted a lot of my primary reading over to Dreamwidth–so if you’re on both sites, and if you are actively posting to DW, I’ll be reading and replying to you on DW. So if you plan to make the jump and you’re on my LJ friends list, let me know so I can add you on DW.

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[mari-mac1109.livejournal.com]

I'm also not abandoning LJ quite yet, but I'm trying to make a little e-home on DW so I'll have somewhere nice to be if I do decide to bail on LJ. I'm adding you over there on the same screen name.

[annathepiper]

Okay! Will reciprocate over yonder. :)

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

Since I am mostly a reader and not an LJ poster here, I guess as long as i still have access to my communities, I don't need to make the jump.

[annathepiper]

So noted!

[gilroycullen.livejournal.com]

For now, I'm remaining loyal to LJ. If it chooses to chase me from here, I might return to Deadjournal, if they still exist. Same base software. Who knows, I might drop from all social media and just abandon anything that resembles my social life these days.

[annathepiper]

Ha! Deadjournal is, in fact, still up.