Live Journal's prospects post-layoffs (my comment on jonchiz67's

[davidfcooper]

Live Journal combines blogging with social networking and as such occupies its own niche. As a blogging platform it's not as nimble as blogspot, wordpress, or Tumblr, and Facebook is clearly state of the art for pure social networking. I hope it doesn't fall between those two stools. If, however, it cannot continue independently, rather than folding and disappearing the lesser evil would be being acquired by a more sophisticated blogging platform that aspires to improve its social networking function by importing an existing community of loyal users. Alternatively, and less desirable, it could become a blogging application on Myspace or Facebook.

Comments

[symian.livejournal.com]

Well, LiveJournal is not a blog, was never intended to be a blog site, and is not in same category. Facebook sucks as blog site, as does Myspace. Wordpress is a pain in the ass to set-up, has too many files that open and close for the more minor function of the software, and makes me dizzy just trying to configure it properly.

As I mentioned in journal, or WILL mention in a little bit, is that LJ has and has always had a large resource of volunteer workers. Truth be told... LJ probably didn't need those employees let go, them not being essential to the day-to-day running of the site.

We'll just have to wait and see.