As is pretty obvious, I'm not participating in the strike. I honestly don't think it's appropriate -- mostly because I *didn't* find the original article, even in its possibly-badly-translated state, all that horrifying.
Yes, it's a bit paranoid -- but I can hardly imagine living in Russia today *without* getting a little paranoid. Yes, it's cynical -- but honestly, if someone's going to be a cynic, I'd rather they were an honest cynic, rather than trying to snow me. Yes, they screwed up the changes -- but they have publically admitted that it was a fuckup, and it's not a very surprising one for a company in the middle of major transitions.
So I can't really get hot under the collar about the situation. Am I sanguine about LJ's future? No, but I'm not totally despairing, either. And as a competitor-to-be, I'd be lying if I claimed that LJ slowly wrecking itself would be the worst problem in my world -- they're just providing good lessons to me of mistakes not to make...
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Yes, it's a bit paranoid -- but I can hardly imagine living in Russia today *without* getting a little paranoid. Yes, it's cynical -- but honestly, if someone's going to be a cynic, I'd rather they were an honest cynic, rather than trying to snow me. Yes, they screwed up the changes -- but they have publically admitted that it was a fuckup, and it's not a very surprising one for a company in the middle of major transitions.
So I can't really get hot under the collar about the situation. Am I sanguine about LJ's future? No, but I'm not totally despairing, either. And as a competitor-to-be, I'd be lying if I claimed that LJ slowly wrecking itself would be the worst problem in my world -- they're just providing good lessons to me of mistakes not to make...