Oh, feh.

[heidi]

You may have already seen this, but from Valleywag at Gawker:

[LiveJournal's] product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

CNET sounds slightly less panicky. But better to be safe than sorry! I am not going anywhere, but I am in various other places in case LJ does go somewhere.

I am backed up on InsaneJournal at 8heidi8 and I have an account that I really should move everything over to on JournalFen at heidi - yes, this means that I am not 'heidi8' on other blog-sites.

I'm also on facebook if you know my real name, and on Twitter at travelingheidi.

Why do I feel like the "sort your flist by date" thing last month was the last hurrah of something wonderful from LJ?

I have been here for seven years, as of this month. I don't have a seven year itch. I don't want LJ to go away. I can't recreate this community, not anywhere else.

About six weeks ago when there was a hacking concern, I asked about ways to back up my LJ, and got some recommendations here. I ended up using both LJArchive and LJBook, but I haven't gone through and re-uploaded my LJ posts anywhere else. For me, the comments and polls are as important as the content of my own posts, though, and that's not even including all the icons and photos I've stored here on LJ over the last seven years.

There has to be a way to at least keep LJ online as a hosting location because right now, I am terrified that we are going to lose that.

And that would be awful.

Comments

[momebie.livejournal.com]

I just followed you on twitter. :)

And I don't know. I don't think we have anything to worry about over night. I think it's mostly a reaction to the economy, not to LJ and it's user base itself. My building has lost about 800 people in the last year to lay offs and we're still publishing text books. Things go on.

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* hi fellow voice of calm and reason. Its nice to see I'm not alone.*hugs more*

[momebie.livejournal.com]

*smoosh* My flist has been worried over it, albeit not as much as when I was in the HP fandom more heavily. I think a deep breath is what we need right now though. Anything is possible, yes, but it's not personal.

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

I dont think them shutting off the server is even LIKELY. I think improvements will vanish but lord, people, I dont think the site is going anywhere.