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geekchickLJ bought by 6A; world fails to implode (despite much insistence that it has).
Seriously. I admit to some amount of skepticism as with any buyout/merger, but I see no evidence yet to think that anything horrible and terrible and awful is going to happen. Most of the things I was most worried about myself (like, are we going to have to move to Typepad-like pricing, which would suck much ass) seem to have been addressed; sure, not completely thoroughly yet, but ferchrissakes it's been less than 24 hours since the announcement. The one thing I haven't seen yet is what happens if 6A decides it wants to be bought by Microsoft or Apple or some other large corporate entity, but it's been asked often enough I'd be at least a little surprised if that doesn't get addressed at some point.
I wouldn't have paid for my accounts for four-plus years if I didn't have some amount of faith in the folks running this company, so I'm giving Brad the benefit of the doubt and believing that he really does have the best interests of this site that he built in mind and sticking around until at least the end of my paid membership in November. I'll re-evaluate then, as I always do. If things have started to suck, I won't renew my paid account. I honestly don't get the rash of panic and threatening to flee for the hills right now I'm seeing in various places. The reason I'm with LJ rather than hosting my own blog is because I enjoy the sense of community; if everyone jumps ship pre-emptively because of what "might" happen someday, that will pretty much destroy what makes LJ special withoutour new corporate overlords 6A having had to do a damn thing. No?
[Edit:] For those who care, here's the diff of the TOS versions 1.4 and 1.5. (Found in a comment to a locked post elsewhere.)
Seriously. I admit to some amount of skepticism as with any buyout/merger, but I see no evidence yet to think that anything horrible and terrible and awful is going to happen. Most of the things I was most worried about myself (like, are we going to have to move to Typepad-like pricing, which would suck much ass) seem to have been addressed; sure, not completely thoroughly yet, but ferchrissakes it's been less than 24 hours since the announcement. The one thing I haven't seen yet is what happens if 6A decides it wants to be bought by Microsoft or Apple or some other large corporate entity, but it's been asked often enough I'd be at least a little surprised if that doesn't get addressed at some point.
I wouldn't have paid for my accounts for four-plus years if I didn't have some amount of faith in the folks running this company, so I'm giving Brad the benefit of the doubt and believing that he really does have the best interests of this site that he built in mind and sticking around until at least the end of my paid membership in November. I'll re-evaluate then, as I always do. If things have started to suck, I won't renew my paid account. I honestly don't get the rash of panic and threatening to flee for the hills right now I'm seeing in various places. The reason I'm with LJ rather than hosting my own blog is because I enjoy the sense of community; if everyone jumps ship pre-emptively because of what "might" happen someday, that will pretty much destroy what makes LJ special without
[Edit:] For those who care, here's the diff of the TOS versions 1.4 and 1.5. (Found in a comment to a locked post elsewhere.)
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:06 pm (UTC)They won't necessarily be terrible now, but there will probably be changes, and people will object. Whether they are whining or have legit complaints remains to be seen. The problem with buyouts is that suddenly the people who were beholden to us no longer are, so anything can happen.
I'm not going to flee, though. We'll see. The changes could ultimately be good.
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:33 pm (UTC)But we're getting TrackBack, so that makes everything all better. ;)
I've been part of a buyout before too and it was terrible (mostly because the company that acquired us had a radically different culture than we did and it was a poor fit from the beginning); I'm hoping this one will work out differently, and I'm willing to give it some time. Like I said, if it starts to seriously suck, *then* I'll likely bail, but I'll give it a chance.