LJ lays off over 70% of staff
Jan. 6th, 2009 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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 frompw201 via palmer1984).
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).
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Date: 2009-01-06 02:39 pm (UTC)I can't find the bits of the mailing list where this stuff was discussed in more detail right now, and it's possible that some of what I remember was from the early IRC discussions anyway.
It could all still go hideously wrong, of course, but at least it sounds like they're going to try to avoid it doing so. *shrug*