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[browngirl]

Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of Livejournal, is leaving Six Apart. No comment I could make would be adequate.

Also, teddywolf has a cogent post on LJ's recent actions towards fandom, here.

Comments

[gingicat]

LiveJournal is linking weirdly - try http://valleywag.com/tech/brad-fitzpatrick/livejournal-creator-leaves-as-six-apart-fails-to-spin-286218.php instead.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you for helping me correct my screwed up html. :)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

you need to appent "php" to the end of your URL. this might work better.

I'm cogitating on a post about this. Watch for it....

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the correction, sweetie. :)

*watches eagerly*

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I fear I'm going to lose track of many of the friends I've made here, people I otherwise would have never met. You'd think after all the moving I've do in my life I'd be used to it, but I never have and I don't think I ever will.

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

I've got a name reserved on GreatestJournal, myself, as well as Facebook.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*hugs you warmly* That's exactly how i feel about all this. How much more must you feel this way!

*sighs and hugs you again*

[poltr1]

I read teddywolf's post and agree completely. I'm not ready to leave LJ yet, but if things keep going the way they do, I may reconsider.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*nod* And necause of my other journal where I post my fanfic, and the fact that apparently they've begun suspending *all* of a person's journals, I'm preparing myself in case I lose these.

*sigh* I wish I could hope this would all blow over.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Not entirely sure what comment is needed. He sold LJ because he was bored and wanted to do other things. He stayed as long as he did becuse he needed to vest his stock options. Now, having done that, he's free to go, and he's going.

This isn't really news, or surprising, or anything to do with the latest overreaction to LJ drama.

[vass]

Doesn't mean it's not significant.

A really big marker of a trend in which LJ is not the place it was.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Nope. LJ is just the same as it was. Because what makes LJ the place it is is the people here.

SixApart doesn't sell community. SixApart sells software and services. The community comes from us. And aside from a small group having collectively lost it's senses, declaring the falling of the sky, and baying for blood, not too much has actually changed. My friends list continues to read the way it has for years, and I expect shall continue to long after this latest teapot-tempest has been forgotten.

And so it goes.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

And aside from a small group having collectively lost it's senses, declaring the falling of the sky, and baying for blood, not too much has actually changed.

That's not exactly the most evenhanded description of events, you know. If this was meant as reassuring, it ended up coming off rather dismissive.

My friendlist has changed; other people's friendslists have changed more. I don't think what's currently happening on LJ is either a small thing or likely to blow over, and I think it bears keeping at least one eye on.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

That's not exactly the most evenhanded description of events, you know. If this was meant as reassuring, it ended up coming off rather dismissive

Actually, it was meant to be dismissive. And I apologize for it. I have no right to bring drama into your journal, and given that the above was the politest I could express my views on the current hysteria, I shall retire from this forum. I shouldn't have posted the comment at all.

This is totally not meant as any kind of "last word"

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You *are* entitled to an opinion, you know, and I always listen to what you say. It's just that in this case I disagree with you, so I said so.

*hands you the chocolate of conciliation*
*smiles at you*

Re: This is totally not meant as any kind of "last word"

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I know I'm entitled to my opinion, sweetie. And so are you, and you can disagree with me. :) (For the record, kitanzi disagrees with at least a portion of my stance).

What I'm not entitled to do is invite argument into your house, and since I

a) have not yet found a way to express my strong opinions on this matter without being inflammatory, and
b) have no real interest in having this debate in *my* journal

good manners suggest that I should probably just not engage the subject.

*hugstight* Still love you, always.