Well, this is discouraging.
Jan. 22nd, 2012 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rayvyn2khttp://www.fastcompany.com/1809674/the-return-of-livejournal
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.
I've had a paid account for years. I have been loyal to this site even through the incredibly bone-headed moves they've made in the past. To hear that folks like me, who have stuck with this site through thick and thin, are to be cast aside in favor of "new traffic" is disheartening.
I don't know what I expected. It's pretty clear that everyone in this world is out to make a buck, that loyalty to anything means nothing anymore, and I have to set up a Dreamwidth account if I haven't already.
Do I need an invite?
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.
I've had a paid account for years. I have been loyal to this site even through the incredibly bone-headed moves they've made in the past. To hear that folks like me, who have stuck with this site through thick and thin, are to be cast aside in favor of "new traffic" is disheartening.
I don't know what I expected. It's pretty clear that everyone in this world is out to make a buck, that loyalty to anything means nothing anymore, and I have to set up a Dreamwidth account if I haven't already.
Do I need an invite?
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Date: 1/22/12 03:15 pm (UTC)Scratch that! I couldn't find any of my codes and I know I've got at least 12 lying around, so I logged out to check. Apparently you don't need a code at the moment but can go ahead and make a free account. I understood that offer to go out at New Years, but they must have kept it a little longer.
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Date: 1/22/12 03:26 pm (UTC)I wonder what the changes will bring? I, too, have a paid account, and have for several years. I don't everyone/every community I read to move, that's for sure. Strikethrough caused enough of that.
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Date: 1/22/12 06:12 pm (UTC)LJ, it's not facebook.