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The Future of LJ
If you haven't heard, SUP has eliminated Basic accounts, going forward. So now new people will either have to pay or have lots of ads plastered all over their journals.
This was mentioned as a possibility to the LJ Advisory board a while back, and their reaction was that it was a terrible idea. So we now know just how much SUP respects the Advisory board, i.e. not at all.
There seems to be a pattern here. Bad things happen to LJ, bad decisions are made, and the user base is lied to again and again. When bad stuff happens some users go away, some complain, and some - the assholes of LJ, as I like to call them - trot out the old "They need to make money, if you don't like it go somewhere else" line. As far as I can tell, LJ is in a continuing state of decline and will not recover.
So...what do you see as the future of LJ? What big changes/surprises will SUP or any future owners have for us? Speculate wildly, if you like!
This was mentioned as a possibility to the LJ Advisory board a while back, and their reaction was that it was a terrible idea. So we now know just how much SUP respects the Advisory board, i.e. not at all.
There seems to be a pattern here. Bad things happen to LJ, bad decisions are made, and the user base is lied to again and again. When bad stuff happens some users go away, some complain, and some - the assholes of LJ, as I like to call them - trot out the old "They need to make money, if you don't like it go somewhere else" line. As far as I can tell, LJ is in a continuing state of decline and will not recover.
So...what do you see as the future of LJ? What big changes/surprises will SUP or any future owners have for us? Speculate wildly, if you like!