Oh, dear me! I was not aware that LJ was in difficulty. This is still a favorite blogging location for a lot of writers that I know of. Blogspot would be another. Not sure what kind of traffic it gets.
From what little I know, LiveJournal is the biggest social networking system in Russia, and the Russian and American branches of LJ are run by the same people. If they are in financial trouble, I haven't heard anything of it.
LJ is, indeed, in trouble. The last couple of years, its traffic flow has plummeted, likely as a direct result of the rising popularity of other forms of online communication. LJ has been described recently as being on "life support," and hence I am backing everything up to Dreamwidth.
However, most people who want to use social networking sites are not artists or writers or graphic designers, so the easy set-up works fine for them, I suppose. They want hot dates and idle chit-chat. That's what those places were made for.
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Date: 2009-10-10 06:53 pm (UTC)Oh, dear me! I was not aware that LJ was in difficulty. This is still a favorite blogging location for a lot of writers that I know of. Blogspot would be another. Not sure what kind of traffic it gets.
From what little I know, LiveJournal is the biggest social networking system in Russia, and the Russian and American branches of LJ are run by the same people. If they are in financial trouble, I haven't heard anything of it.
LJ is, indeed, in trouble. The last couple of years, its traffic flow has plummeted, likely as a direct result of the rising popularity of other forms of online communication. LJ has been described recently as being on "life support," and hence I am backing everything up to Dreamwidth.
However, most people who want to use social networking sites are not artists or writers or graphic designers, so the easy set-up works fine for them, I suppose. They want hot dates and idle chit-chat. That's what those places were made for.
I think this is largely true, yes.