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LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-beginnings dept.

Kingfox writes "Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, finally confirms the story that was posted to Slashdot yesterday. Six Apart has purchased Danga. This means that they're moving to San Francisco, LiveJournal users are finally getting the trackback feature, but the project will stay open source, and little else will change for the end user."

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  1. Ads already in place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    People are already reporting ads on LJ, even for paid users: http://www.livejournal.com/users/girlvinyl/178809. html

    1. Re:Ads already in place by Tink2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Er, did you bother to go look at her references?

      It's quite clear (especially if you actually go look at the pages she cites) that she's been spywared.

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    2. Re:Ads already in place by BenSpinSpace · · Score: 2, Informative

      The person reporting the ads seems to be the only person seeing them. Therefore, "Person" is reporting ads, not "People." And it could very well be spyware.

      The people running LiveJournal seem to be quite aware of an average user's worries about the project; hell, Brad Fitzpatrick himself seems to be one of the crowd who has chosen specifically not to sell his soul to the devil. RTFA to hear what he's actually saying. As he says, "Really you shouldn't see any negative changes." The LiveJournal operators wouldn't violate this statement within moments of its being posted!

      Viewing these changes in LiveJournal as positive things may seem bleak at first, but these advancements require a bit of faith. There will always be people to decry every bit of progress as "turning to the dark side," but I, for one, have faith in several of my favorite Internet organizations: Slashdot, LiveJournal, Something Awful, Google, and Amazon, to name several. Usually even their most questionable steps eventually wind up in the bounds of smart thinking and usually good taste.

  2. Hey, amateur porn is where it's at... by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 4, Informative

    So long as the amateur porn stays in place, and I can continue to co-admin my porn community, then all is well. (You need to get an account to read the community, and list a valid 18+ birthdate, and submit a join-request. This is so the community doesn't get deleted. It's a CYA maneuver by the livejournal administration to ensure that everybody who watches porn can lie about their age.)

    --grendel drago

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  3. Correction by wankledot · · Score: 3, Informative

    SA is buying Livejournal fromDanga, they are not buying Danga itself.

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    1. Re:Correction by Apathetic1 · · Score: 2, Informative

      I believe your post is technically correct but it's also misleading. Six Apart may not be buying Danga but the Danga employees will be moving to San Francisco, at least according to the news post:

      What happens to the Danga employees?
      We're moving to San Francisco! *ding ding*
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    2. Re:Correction by stephenbooth · · Score: 2, Informative

      Someone asked Brad directly if it was Danga or just LJ that was being sold and he stated it was all of it.

      Stephen

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  4. LJ Backup/Export to XML by NeuralAbyss · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wrote this script after hearing the rumours.. can also be a good thing if you just want a backup of your livejournal.

    LJExport v0.1

    Any comments are welcome.. released under the BSD license.

    1. Re:LJ Backup/Export to XML by Malk-a-mite · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

  5. Re:Changes by Jamie+Zawinski · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's only slow if you don't have a paid account. I agree that their theme systems (both of them) are totally from hell.

  6. hah, 'still open source' .. not for long by FuzzieNorn · · Score: 2, Informative

    They've ripped their commitment to keeping the site as Free Software out of their social contract (which they've renamed to 'guiding principles' anyway).

    Details of the change are here.

  7. Re:LJ trackbacks will make Google go wonky... by djsmiley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google ranks is clever like that.
    As if the first page in the pile has a low rank, it gives off an even smaller part of this to the next page. Now, if a BIG blog which was very popular joined this, it would effect maybe 1 or 2 tiers down but after this yet again its gone.

    This means only the BIG blogs can stay at the top, and anyway when googling, how many blogs do you click?

    I know i never click any, not by habit but because there is none there. I guess this is due to the almost randomness of the infomation contained therein.

    Oh and so you know im not bshitting about what i know about google, my sites listed top for djsmiley, djsmiley2k, tim bowers, and a few other terms...
    The method? Add sensible content, add adwords, and add links to all my bookmarks.

    At first when someone does something different google ranks tend to end up ranking it highly, but as soon as everyone catches on, it drops again to a normal level.

    (now waiting for home PC to get /.'ed

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