LJ lays off over 70% of staff

[ciphergoth]

20 of LiveJournal's 28 staff laid off (propogated from dennyd; Valleywag may not be a reliable source)

That's what I should have done over the holidays - started building a lifeboat...

Update: Another report says 13 out of 30 staff; this post is collating links (propogated from pw201 via palmer1984).

Comments

[yoyoangel.livejournal.com]

What do you recommend for archiving one's LJ, then? Just in case...

[lolliepopp.livejournal.com]

great minds and that, I was about to ask the same thing!

L
x

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Lj Archive seems to be pretty good.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

But does it pick up comments as well as the posts?

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[just-becky.livejournal.com]

Is that a feature of Livejournal I have not yet found or a 3rd party app/script thingy? Any chance of a link to it either way?

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Seperate program - http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/

[just-becky.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you for that.

Now my biggest concern is how to stay in touch with the people on my friends list, should LJ implode at some point. Due to excessive amounts of geography between us, LJ is my primary method of keeping in contact with pretty much every friend I have. Should the worst happen its unlikely everyone I know will move as one to some alternative service.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Facebook or email would be my suggestions - probably both for safety! If you put up a screened post asking for contact details LJ Archive should automatically archive it.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

this is acutally what scares me most, i guess i'd loose track of many, many friends :(