LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed

Kingfox writes "Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, finally confirms the story that was posted to Slashdot yesterday. Six Apart has purchased Danga. This means that they're moving to San Francisco, LiveJournal users are finally getting the trackback feature, but the project will stay open source, and little else will change for the end user."

Little will change...?

[JediLow]

Sure, just like they weren't being bought...

Re:Changes

[BumpyCarrot]

Actually, they were planning on never ever changing their prices, not ever. If they do, you should sue! Oh hell yes.

Re:Thank goodness for TrackBack

[AndroidCat]

And all trackback and blogging can be replaced with Usenet. (Over UUCP like in the good days!)

Re:Mod Parent Offtopic

[Anonymous Coward]

You clearly don't know LiveJournal. It's all about the amateur porn.

Six Apart v Google

[RobertTaylor]

"Why is Six Apart buying LiveJournal?
Lots of reasons:

Together we form super robot that's stronger than the sum of its parts.
Super robots can fight super companies."

Blogger.com bought up by Google...

To think that millions of £££ venture capital will be spent over which system publishes what 14 year old Lisa's dog ate last night.

Yes, that's it *exactly*

[wirefarm]

The content management system is doing that.
Just today I was posting an article discussing Renaissance architecture and what came out was a shoegazer post about cat shit.

I think it must have something to do with the version of PERL I'm using.

As a livejournal user...

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.

Mood:

[rmart]

depressed :(

Newsflash!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Beaverton, OR: Due to personal greed, Brad Fitzpatrick has single-handedly unleashed over 5 million whining emo-punk bloggers, Paypal scam artists and just plain weirdos onto the Internet.

"I was sick of their shit", Fitzpatrick told reporters earlier today, "I mean, how many times can some mediocre-looking chick post a picture of herself and say 'Dang! Don't I look teh sexah in this? Donate money to my PayPal account and I'll show you my boobs, or maybe I'll blow you if you come visit me in Portland'? How many uneducated political opinions can be posted on the web before it collapses under sheer ennui? How many times does one have to be told that nobody gives a shit about you and your family before it sinks in?

"I mean, really. Y'all have more computing power on your desks than Project Apollo, and this is what you use it for? It's time to end the era of the mundane blog, so fuck you, I'm taking the money and running. Turn off your fucking computers and go outside for once in your miserable whining lives."

CERT has been alerted to this sale and is initiating emergency procedures to deal with the expected onslaught of juvenile, tattoo'd, mentally ill sluts, depressed housewives and ass-kissing single men with poor hygiene habits looking to score some 'net pussy.

Details at 11.