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LJ and Russian Business
LJ keeps rolling out big makeovers for the site, and they usually seem to be a big turn off, at least for the Anglo-sphere. And someone shared this viewpoint from the upper echelons of the owners and site-administrators:
Personally, I know I lost a lot of heart in the site a long time ago, but that has more to do with everyone going to those other sites, and my personal uncoolness was apparently becoming too evident as well, and it is just not the fun it used to be ten years ago, without the friends and little flirtations. But I am afraid that I am just one of those people for whom life generally tastes more sour as one ages - more losing, more dying, less hope, less joy.
(Source: LJ)
Anton Nossik, an advisor to SUP Media, has not reacted favourably to criticism by site users. In an interview given in March 2008, he accused LiveJournal users of "trying to scare and blackmail us, threatening to destroy our business," and stated that a large class of users have as their only purpose bringing harm to LiveJournal and its owners; "their goal is to criticize, destabilize and ruin our reputation." In the interview, he predicted that his likely reaction to such pressure would be to retaliate against the users rather than bowing to their pressure.I suppose this is the Russian way of doing business: love it or get purged! I don't know if LJ is hurting itself or not. The site was dying under the new Internet 2.0 - a relic in the fast-changing cyberworld. People say that the site is just being made to be much more like Facebook and Tumblr, which is what the masses seem to want.
Personally, I know I lost a lot of heart in the site a long time ago, but that has more to do with everyone going to those other sites, and my personal uncoolness was apparently becoming too evident as well, and it is just not the fun it used to be ten years ago, without the friends and little flirtations. But I am afraid that I am just one of those people for whom life generally tastes more sour as one ages - more losing, more dying, less hope, less joy.
(Source: LJ)