The Decline of Livejournal

Once universally praised for founder Brad Fitzpatrick’s open-source platform and commitment to a free userbase—he once vowed that LiveJournal would always have basic (non-paying or ad-supported) accounts—LiveJournal is known these days mostly for being popular in Russia (the Russian name for blogging is “LJ.”) and Singapore, and for housing gossip blog Oh No They Didn’t.

What happened?

source: www.dailydot.com/culture/livejournal-decline-timeline/

UPDATED: Speaking of Jumping Ship...

So I'm really over livejournal. It's completely dead, outside of four or five friends, and I'd love to see these friends either move to their owndomains, or move to here. Maybe if I can develop some app or script that can do everything I need to do to migrate, and perfect it so otherpeople can migrate their journals in only a button or two...

 Things to do:

1. Archive all 3 livejournals.
2. Shut down all 3.*
3. Upload everything to this place. 

There are a few things that LJ has that this place does not. However, those small things are not keeping me there. And I'm thinking if I ask nicely, I'll get those things here. Regardless... the ground there is going sour.

*I'll keep the latest LJ up, but only because it echoes nicely and plays well with FB.

My tweets

• Fri, 13:05: Just a reminder that there's this online thing going on. It involves webcams and probably booze. Most definately... http://t.co/EBpLCebN
• Fri, 15:43: This post here has earned more karma than all of my other original content posts ever, COMBINED. This is 2nd... http://t.co/gVgqklw4
• Fri, 17:19: "Thank you for reading, you are all an inspiration to me for being you, whether you know me or not. I usually... http://t.co/GWAsfAuC
• Sat, 04:16: The Decline of Livejournal http://t.co/kEbr5yrg
• Sat, 04:16: posted a new entry to 'krowface' at LiveJournal. http://t.co/MPIewXRC
• Sat, 05:41: Speaking of Jumping Ship... http://t.co/TeR4WQgf
• Sat, 05:41: posted a new entry to 'krowface' at LiveJournal. http://t.co/fxm4yYHS
• Sat, 05:55: Alex woke me up at like 5 am, but at least it afforded me some time to finish that rough advert for the new... http://t.co/Au3cvKES

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