Stuff, kerfuffles and other stuff

[avrelia]

It seems my recent posts all concern either pregnancy or books - and you might think nothing else happens or interest me. Well, it is almost true.
However, not completely - I also watch movies and follow the kerfuffles here and there.

Well, a week ago, my blogging site devoted to pregnancy and children was hit by a major kerfuffle - probably its first, as the service is rather young (hardly over two years). It felt like a kerfuffle we usually have here ten per summer, but because it was a relatively small community (a babies fandom, I guess), because it was personal and not about fictional worlds and because the emotions of future and new mothers are running high, it was hot there for a time. I felt that nothing is ever new and ran here, back in my familiar fandom haven for some peace and quiet...

Yeah... So much for peace and quiet... I don't have much energy for moral outrage and I am way too cynical to expect anything good from 6A in the matter, but I am deeply sad that lots of people are planning to leave for good. Yes, 6A/LJ screws up and it doesn't care. Which raises some questions - what do they care about? Money, yes, but in what context applicable to LJ? I've read somewhere they are preparing for public offering, but the getting rid of HP porn seems too random an action. They obviously don't need paying members of LJ, as I guess it is not very profitable to rely on them. But what is profitable here? Is it actually possible to make money on LJ? You know, maybe they should cancel all permanent accounts, because those people are not going to pay for it again...

and the same goes for the Cyrillic segment, with its own problems and kerfuffles and the owner that nobody quite sure what they own actually. (Or maybe it's me who doesn't know what exactly SUP owns, because I hardly ever present in Cyrillic segment).

I, however, found this piece of news in Russian source It's in English, and it's about Brad leaving and some hints on general situation at 6A

I do not, however, planning to leave. I stated my reasons after the May crisis and they stays the same. It is a place I've built for myself, and I am not only here for fandom large or small, but for friends in many completely different areas. And if I pay, it will be not for the sake of 6A, but for my own comfort, because though I lived for years on basic account, I don't see why I have to cause myself inconvenience to jab at 6A, when they will hardly ever notice me...

Comments

[asta77.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone leaving LJ, but I do have several people now posting to more than one journal. People have to do what they feel is best for them, but I just can't be moved to move at this point and I foresee problems on the other sites down the road.

I don't think LJ is a big moneymaker, but it is a tool that helps 6A develop and test their software projects from which, I hear, they do make quite a bit of money. I mean, IJ and GJ look *a lot* like LJ so at some point they were doing things right.

As for Brad leaving, I read a report and from the comments that were left no one was really heartbroken to see him go. It seems like his ego got the better of him and he really hadn't contributed here in a productive matter in some time.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I do know some people who are leaving over it, and some who seriously contemplating the leave, and I, too, think that the new sites are not really better than LJ. I did, btw, got myself all the GJ, IJ and JF accounts (I need to edit my post) with the same name of mine to track easier people there. I can't be bothered to post in several sites though.

I do think LJ is a better service than many, and they keep working at many issues that arise. They do screw up rather spectacularly though.

I don't care much about Brad leaving, but I find hints about internal trouble at 6A interesting.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

About Babyblog. I follow your entries and I have to confess that sometimes I also read your flist (especially about hospital experiences). It seemed like such a positive place, even though I'm not currently interested in babies. I caught the beginning of what happened on July 30th. I really hoped it was a hoax of some sort, or maybe a hacker. Too weird and horrible to be true. Anyway, I decided to follow up on it, but when I came back later on the 31st, there were only weird remnants here and there.

I considered asking your privately about it, but I also didn't want to bring up something like this.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Babyblog is a positive a helpful place, which was, I think, one of the reasons why the situation left so many bitter feeling. Nobody knows what really happened with the baby (and some doubt that the was a baby), and this moment everyone agreed to leave as it is and not to touch anymore. When the news (not about the death, but the circumstances around)came, the emotions were running VERY high - and very divisive. It wouldn't be that bad if some people did not come from nowhere to point fingers and to mock BB citizens in LJ and other blogs.

as for me, I feel sad for the baby, but everything ... I just shrug off now. It is the Internet, and it is hard to encounter drama queens, strange people and trolls wherever you go. We just don't have any means to know in many cases.

So, yes, you ask me more if I haven't answered what you wanted to know.