Latest LJ Drama

March 19th, 2008 - 7:26 pm

Just a few Livejournal related things I wanted to point out to any of my LJ friends who may not have seen them yet:

An article in C-News, a Russian IT news outlet, about the recent dropping of basic accounts.

An interview with Anton Nosik, the head of SUP’s blogging division in the original Russian and a translation I ran across. I, not speaking or reading Russian, have no idea if the English translation is accurate, but if it is, it’s pretty damning. I ran the Russian through a few translation programs, which suck historically as properly translating Russian, and the translation I linked to looks like it may be accurate … and pretty damning.

I really do my best to have nothing to do with companies I decide are unworthy of my attention, and Livejournal has been one of those companies for a while now … and it’s been getting worse. I’ve only maintained by LJ due to have good friends there and wanting to make it easy to keep up with them and for them to keep up with me, but going forward, I don’t know if I can, in good conscious, continue to use LJ at all. I guess if I lose friends over it, I lose friends over it. There just seem to be an unending stream of crappy things going on at that company, and I am beginning to feel like I want no part of it at all anymore.

One thing’s for certain: I won’t be paying them for an account anymore when my current time expires.

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6 Responses to “Latest LJ Drama”

  1. on 20 Mar 2008 at 1:56 am   Cristina

    So they’re deleting our free accounts?
    I use my LJ and I like participating in the groups, that sucks so bad. :/

  2. on 20 Mar 2008 at 6:43 am   Orb

    They aren’t allowing any more of the free Basic accounts with limited features and ads. The only choice is Plus or Paid. That’s really not an awful business decision, but it’s one of those you should. perhaps, announce … and not let users figure it out on their own. Apparently, people who have Basic accounts now can keep them, and people who pay can downgrade to Basic as well. I think. I’m not entirely clear on that.

    But the guy in the interview? I read a different translation, one that claims to be more fair, and he still comes off sounding like an ass, even when I take Russian culture into account.

  3. on 20 Mar 2008 at 7:34 am   Donna

    Forward the stuff onto Jim. He’s having some light work weeks so he could translate it for you… It would give him something to do

  4. on 20 Mar 2008 at 7:47 am   Orb

    I was thinking about that. Will do, because I’d trust his translation far more than anyone I don’t know … and he doesn’t have a dog in the LJ fight, so won’t care of the guy comes off sounding like an ass or not.

  5. on 20 Mar 2008 at 11:49 am   Donna

    I just talked to him and he said he’d be more than happy to translate it for you. You have his email, correct?

  6. on 20 Mar 2008 at 12:51 pm   Orb

    I have a Yahoo one, is that it?