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

[carmentalis.livejournal.com]

Move the server crew to Russia then. Or India depending on the ruble/rupia exchange rate. :-)

It wouldn't even surprise me much if this had been planned for a while and just happened a bit sooner because of the economic climate. Cut costs and do the actual engineering closer to home. They're so heavily focused on Russia after all, it would make sense if they start considering that their primary market.

[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.