Livejournal matters

[winter]

However I may personally feel about the LiveJournal staff layoffs, there's an official statement about them now.

Most of LiveJournal revenue is in rubles. Their labour costs were in USD. Economically, it's a textbook move, especially since they already have a Russian technical and product development team - who are paid less.

Best of luck to everyone involved, especially those who got the bad news :(

Comments

[winter]

Server move would cause an outrage ;) And according to this, main server guy, main volunteer herder and main user-side spokesperson are all staying, which makes me optimistic.

[carmentalis.livejournal.com]

So it's a matter of trimming things down and cutting redundancies. The US office will have to get used to the idea of just being a branch office.