Back in December of the last year, when the Russian company SUP bought LiveJournal, I wrote this post, in which, among other things, I said that it wasn’t a very good thing for LiveJournal. A few things happened since then, which confirmed my worries. But the biggest of them is unfolding right now.
SUP removed basic (free) accounts from the registration form. They have also introduced plenty of annoying advertising to existing free accounts. Lots and lots of people got really annoyed with that. In fact, there even was a boycott with some users not updating their diaries for 24 hours, while others going as far as deleting their diaries (no worries yet, since there is a way to restore the diary).
If you missed this whole story, here is a CNews article in English and here is a Lenta.ru article in Russian which cover the basic story. For more, check numerous posts on the blogosphere.
Most of the people I know, saw it coming. And this is surely not the last incident in this story.
