Actually, no. LiveJournal is only minimally supported by advertising, which only comes through users who have agreed to have Google Ads show up on their journals in exchange for extra features. Most of their money comes from users with paid accounts. If those users get pissed off and leave, the site dies.
Sure, that's one solution. But suppose the mayor of your town comes and burns down your house one night. Yes, you could just move to another town, but what about all your friends and connections in your old town? They can move, too, but unless you manage to get them all to move to the same place, you're going to have a harder time staying in touch. LiveJournal provides a mechanism for easy community building (whether through actual LJ communities or simply through interactions via comments on individual journals) that's difficult to achieve with individual blogs, and that many people don't want to deal with setting up for themselves. There is a value to trying to maintain the existing infrastructure.
People will adapt eventually. You don't see too much stuff written in COBOL these days, because better stuff has come around since. Yes, it will take a few years before the new languages and new techniques take over, but any major paradigm shift takes time. And all it will really take to kick the transition into high gear is a few significant pieces of software that blow the competition away by being written to take proper advantage of parallel architectures. Seems like a business opportunity to me if that's your bag.
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Actually, no. LiveJournal is only minimally supported by advertising, which only comes through users who have agreed to have Google Ads show up on their journals in exchange for extra features. Most of their money comes from users with paid accounts. If those users get pissed off and leave, the site dies.
Sure, that's one solution. But suppose the mayor of your town comes and burns down your house one night. Yes, you could just move to another town, but what about all your friends and connections in your old town? They can move, too, but unless you manage to get them all to move to the same place, you're going to have a harder time staying in touch. LiveJournal provides a mechanism for easy community building (whether through actual LJ communities or simply through interactions via comments on individual journals) that's difficult to achieve with individual blogs, and that many people don't want to deal with setting up for themselves. There is a value to trying to maintain the existing infrastructure.
People will adapt eventually. You don't see too much stuff written in COBOL these days, because better stuff has come around since. Yes, it will take a few years before the new languages and new techniques take over, but any major paradigm shift takes time. And all it will really take to kick the transition into high gear is a few significant pieces of software that blow the competition away by being written to take proper advantage of parallel architectures. Seems like a business opportunity to me if that's your bag.