{"id":11101,"date":"2008-03-21T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/destroying-livejournal\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:14:36","slug":"destroying-livejournal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/destroying-livejournal\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying LiveJournal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in December of the last year, when the Russian company SUP bought LiveJournal, I wrote this post<\/a>, in which, among other things, I said that it wasn’t a very good thing for LiveJournal.\u00c2\u00a0 A few things happened since then, which confirmed my worries.\u00c2\u00a0 But the biggest of them is unfolding right now.<\/p>\n

SUP removed basic (free) accounts from the registration form.\u00c2\u00a0 They have also introduced plenty of annoying advertising to existing free accounts.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots and lots of people got really annoyed with that.\u00c2\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n

If you missed this whole story, here is a CNews article<\/a> in English and here is a Lenta.ru article<\/a> in Russian which cover the basic story.\u00c2\u00a0 For more, check numerous posts<\/a> on the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Most of the people I know, saw it coming.\u00c2\u00a0 And this is surely not the last incident in this story.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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.\u00c2\u00a0 A few things happened since then, which confirmed my worries.\u00c2\u00a0 But the biggest of them is unfolding right now. SUP removed … Continue reading Destroying LiveJournal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1334],"tags":[29,1968,91,1023,1425,1172],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-web-work","tag-blogging","tag-business","tag-livejournal","tag-social","tag-sup","tag-web-services"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t