IDK, from a certain perspective, maybe it does make sense? If LJ has strong business potential in Russia/Ukraine/etc, but much less in the US, then it makes sense to focus operations and development in that direction, and work on seeking/maintaining growth in that sector. Obviously I wish that LJ did pay more development attention to the US/UK/English-speaking sector (it's a big component in my interest in DW), though.
However, if people are using blogging platforms and FB (and twitter) in combination instead of LJ, it's going to be really hard for LJ to appeal to those folks, because those sites follow different ways of usage which are in some ways antithetical to LJ's.
(Someone I know who studies business and IT described LJ as 'deprecated' because the code is so old; I don't know how accurate that is, but it really does seem as though the industry has little interest in it at all, when you look at the influential social networking/blogging press)
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Date: 2009-May-10, Sunday 20:00 (UTC)However, if people are using blogging platforms and FB (and twitter) in combination instead of LJ, it's going to be really hard for LJ to appeal to those folks, because those sites follow different ways of usage which are in some ways antithetical to LJ's.
(Someone I know who studies business and IT described LJ as 'deprecated' because the code is so old; I don't know how accurate that is, but it really does seem as though the industry has little interest in it at all, when you look at the influential social networking/blogging press)