Oh eljay, why you hurt me so bad

I've been a livejournal user for a DECADE. That's a lot of time. The idea of wholesale moving somewhere else is pretty depressing. But I am pretty concerned about the future of the company given the way things have been going over the last couple of years. Let's not mythologise the past: livejournal were ALWAYS kind of hamfisted about things. They never really got over being a group started up by enthusiastic amateurs, and their business model was always sloppy. Then they got bought up by a big company and sold to another. But that doesn't seem to have improved service. Instead the clumsiness now has a veneer of Big Business Disinterest. Classy.

Well, we shall see. I hope today's downtime isn't a return to April's epic DDoS attack lack of service!