This can't be good...

[conuly]

Six Apart was bad enough, but Yahoo? Wha...?

Edit: readerravenclaw (hope I got her name right) is now saying that the article is just speculating on the possibility that this might happen. Now that I've calmed down and re-read the article... I think she's likely right. Oops. I can read fast, but do I comprehend what I read? Apparently not. Let's have fun with doomsday predictions anyway, though.

Comments

[feathered.livejournal.com]

If it's true, this is my cue to jump the sinking ship of livejournal. I have personal vendettas against yahoo.

[conuly]

Like what?

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing terribly sordid. I just don't like them. They were okay to begin with, but every single one of their chat rooms and game things have become either inconvenient to use or overrun with idiots, geocities has too many ads to function, and I hate the designs of all their sites.

Really, it would just be an excuse to quit. I'm morally opposed to change. Maybe I'll go to deadjournal, but probably not.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, they took away the hello kitty faces from their messenger, and I've had multiple scary encounters with random people through yahoo messenger, games & chats. Those were really what made me dislike it, poor design & customer-ignoringness aside.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

It does seem to be speculation -- nothing has actually happened yet -- but if this is confirmed I'll start weaning myself so that I'll be able to delete without regret within six months. Hopefully it's just a rumour, but I so do not like the sound of it. It's the pay per click ads that get me. The article speculates fairly strongly that that's half the entire reason yahoo would buy six apart, and therefore LJ: to make it into one big convenient billboard. That so does not fit into the concept of the livejournal that I joined, oh, three and a half years ago. Online or not, it's a journal, not a fucking commercial, and I won't have anything to do with it if it changes.

[conuly]

*nods*

It'd be one thing if they were *my* ads, if I were getting money for having them, if I were choosing. I don't want somebody ELSES ads on *my* journal.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Coraline! Good book. *nods*

[drapery.livejournal.com]

*shrug* As long as they don't add ads and spyware to every page like they've done with Geocities, etc., I don't care.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I'm having scary flashbacks of when they demolished Yahoo Clubs. This isn't good.

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

I just had a horrific vision of LJ being overtaken by weight-loss ads, "Meet Sexy Singles," and spyware on everyone's user info page. If that happens, I'll be upset about the change. *cry* They promised nothing would change when Six Apart bought LJ, but you never know...

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Well, they promised Six Apart wouldn't change anything. They didn't promise that someone else woulnd't buy Six Apart and change things.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Yes, I seem to recall a comment out of the 5,000 on the news post Brad did that addressed this exact issue (the one of Six Apart being bought out; it was a "what if," but apparently, it's either coincidence, or they knew something). I believe it was by someone I don't know, but was replied to in agreement by decadence1. Now...I know decadence1 does support, so that can't be good.

Gah. This sucks. Next thing you know, AOL/Time Warner will be all over it, just like everything else.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Next thing you know, AOL/Time Warner will be all over it.

Hahhah, in my journal I just said that it would be Wal-Mart.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Crap. I missed my end italics at the end of your quote.

Sorry.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

S'ok. :)

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

This was exactly what worried me most about Six Apart buying Livejournal: not so much what Six Apart might do, but what would happen once Six Apart was inevitably bought out itself by someone bigger and meaner.

*sigh*

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm the one who's totally misunderstanding the situation, I think all of you need to take another look at that article.

The article isn't revealing a rumor that Yahoo! is planning to buy SixApart; it's arguing why it thinks that Yahoo! should, and eventually will, buy SixApart. It's an opinion/economics piece, it has no (apparent) basis in any actual negotiations or even hushed insider plans.

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've googled around a bit; I'm glad to see that my reading comprehension skills haven't deserted me. :) This is NOT a rumour; it's total speculation, at the same level as speculation about who the Half-Blood Prince will be, albeit with a bit more reasoning behind it than most idle speculation. The author simply believes that Yahoo will find it absolutely necessary to buy its way into the blogging market, and for lack of anything else, will have to buy SixApart, and will offer so much money that they won't be able to refuse. That's not a totally off-the-wall premise, but it's absolute, pure speculation.

[conuly]

Oops...

*blush*

I'll go re-read now. My reading comprehension must go way south after midnight.

gott im himmel!

[scottrossi.livejournal.com]

my god. it was nice knowin' ya. i am thinking about fleeing to deadjournal how about anyone else? lol

[feathered.livejournal.com]

If it's true, this is my cue to jump the sinking ship of livejournal. I have personal vendettas against yahoo.

[conuly]

Like what?

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing terribly sordid. I just don't like them. They were okay to begin with, but every single one of their chat rooms and game things have become either inconvenient to use or overrun with idiots, geocities has too many ads to function, and I hate the designs of all their sites.

Really, it would just be an excuse to quit. I'm morally opposed to change. Maybe I'll go to deadjournal, but probably not.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, they took away the hello kitty faces from their messenger, and I've had multiple scary encounters with random people through yahoo messenger, games & chats. Those were really what made me dislike it, poor design & customer-ignoringness aside.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

It does seem to be speculation -- nothing has actually happened yet -- but if this is confirmed I'll start weaning myself so that I'll be able to delete without regret within six months. Hopefully it's just a rumour, but I so do not like the sound of it. It's the pay per click ads that get me. The article speculates fairly strongly that that's half the entire reason yahoo would buy six apart, and therefore LJ: to make it into one big convenient billboard. That so does not fit into the concept of the livejournal that I joined, oh, three and a half years ago. Online or not, it's a journal, not a fucking commercial, and I won't have anything to do with it if it changes.

[conuly]

*nods*

It'd be one thing if they were *my* ads, if I were getting money for having them, if I were choosing. I don't want somebody ELSES ads on *my* journal.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Coraline! Good book. *nods*

[drapery.livejournal.com]

*shrug* As long as they don't add ads and spyware to every page like they've done with Geocities, etc., I don't care.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I'm having scary flashbacks of when they demolished Yahoo Clubs. This isn't good.

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

I just had a horrific vision of LJ being overtaken by weight-loss ads, "Meet Sexy Singles," and spyware on everyone's user info page. If that happens, I'll be upset about the change. *cry* They promised nothing would change when Six Apart bought LJ, but you never know...

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Well, they promised Six Apart wouldn't change anything. They didn't promise that someone else woulnd't buy Six Apart and change things.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Yes, I seem to recall a comment out of the 5,000 on the news post Brad did that addressed this exact issue (the one of Six Apart being bought out; it was a "what if," but apparently, it's either coincidence, or they knew something). I believe it was by someone I don't know, but was replied to in agreement by decadence1. Now...I know decadence1 does support, so that can't be good.

Gah. This sucks. Next thing you know, AOL/Time Warner will be all over it, just like everything else.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Next thing you know, AOL/Time Warner will be all over it.

Hahhah, in my journal I just said that it would be Wal-Mart.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Crap. I missed my end italics at the end of your quote.

Sorry.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

S'ok. :)

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

This was exactly what worried me most about Six Apart buying Livejournal: not so much what Six Apart might do, but what would happen once Six Apart was inevitably bought out itself by someone bigger and meaner.

*sigh*

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm the one who's totally misunderstanding the situation, I think all of you need to take another look at that article.

The article isn't revealing a rumor that Yahoo! is planning to buy SixApart; it's arguing why it thinks that Yahoo! should, and eventually will, buy SixApart. It's an opinion/economics piece, it has no (apparent) basis in any actual negotiations or even hushed insider plans.

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've googled around a bit; I'm glad to see that my reading comprehension skills haven't deserted me. :) This is NOT a rumour; it's total speculation, at the same level as speculation about who the Half-Blood Prince will be, albeit with a bit more reasoning behind it than most idle speculation. The author simply believes that Yahoo will find it absolutely necessary to buy its way into the blogging market, and for lack of anything else, will have to buy SixApart, and will offer so much money that they won't be able to refuse. That's not a totally off-the-wall premise, but it's absolute, pure speculation.

[conuly]

Oops...

*blush*

I'll go re-read now. My reading comprehension must go way south after midnight.

gott im himmel!

[scottrossi.livejournal.com]

my god. it was nice knowin' ya. i am thinking about fleeing to deadjournal how about anyone else? lol