“It’s not the end of the world, but I can see it from here.”--
Patent OchsnerLJ started it's major overhaul last week, and, to say the least, the new design was not received with a lot of fanfare. At the center of the storm is the removal of subject-headings for comments. I seldom use them myself, but I liked having the option, and the new move seemed more like a downgrade rather than an upgrade to me. As I read more on the controversy, I got the sinister impression that this big change is about the Russian owners deciding to make LiveJournal more theirs. They paid for the website and own it, so why shouldn't they play with it as they please, instead of letting it continue to bear so much of its original American heritage? I was starting to think it may be time to move my main blog, after all.
However, reading more on the matter, I realize that my paranoiac streak was showing. Denise at Dreamwidth gives us some good discussion about what is going on. I suppose one shouldn't be surprised that LJ is just doing what it can to survive in the new social media environment, trying to attract new users.
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