The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by MatGB:

Vicky (27); the sponsored communites aspect has been around for awhile, I think it's already made News, may be wrong, but we've known for at least a month.

The social contract wasn't "quietly pulled", Brad announced it in the "we've been bought" post January 2005, with a PSB explanation, admittedly, but it wasn't done quietly. You're right about the way it was done badly, and my reading of it is that Brad is really pissed about the thing, yes, he dumped on Raheali a little, but the tone of her post was completely out of order.

Short term, it's LJ to nothing. Medium to long term? My hope is a distributed, OpenID supporting platform that people can run on diffferent servers but integrate seamlessly with each other and with LJ; LJ2Wordpress is a good start.

6A haven't got a clue about the userbase, and ads are an awful idea, completely breaks the old business model in a bad way. But I think this was a genuinely stupid mistake. And the astroturfers are a bit too obvious. Ah well.

One of Brad's plus points about the buyout was the improvement in support staff. Maybe they could hire someone good at customer relations?

Josh? Please explain to me, as a longstanding gamer, fan of China's writing, opponent of his politics and liker of his persona, especially his many comments on gaming in interviews on various BBC shows I've listened to, where's the insult?

I think there is a straw man in this thread, but it's really not in the "insult" to gaming.

We, as gamers or as readers of fantasy and sci-fi, do have a problem in the desire for detail within the otherworldly. From Dilithium Crystals, Somebody Else's Problem fields, mages casting time stop spells on runaway trains and other PSB, you can't explain the unexplainable, but you have to for it to work.

Well, that's my take, anyway.

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