Schadenfreude over LJs woes is misplaced.

[randomness]

I've seen some schadenfreude expressed about LJ's current problems.

A glance at DW's newest posts shows a significant number of Russian language bloggers. From some of the posts I see that there are a number of migrants from LJ. As far as I'm concerned, they're most welcome. In fact, I'd like to know if there's an equivalent to the dw_codesharing community in Russian.

However, for those making light of LJ's problems, a question: if DW becomes another site helping Russian dissidents organize, why would anyone think DW will be immune from attack?*

And this from Dreamwidth News's Weekly Update: 6 April:

I'd also like to take a few minutes to publicly offer support to LiveJournal, where the team has been doing an incredible job in responding to and mitigating a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. If you haven't been able to reach LJ in the past few days, this is why; the current theory in the press is that the DDoS is a political statement being made against Russian-language bloggers using LJ as their platform. We wish the LJ team luck, perserverence, and a bottle of really good top-shelf liquor in trying to combat the problem.

*And no, this is not a reason to discourage Russians from coming to DW. Or at least a really craven reason.

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Does DW have similar russian-language services to LJ? Because if it doesn't, I will still be here every day, and not there. I love me some ЖЖ news, lemme tell you. (Hey, I found that letter blind on my Russian keyboard, I must be learning to touch-type in Russian!)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

No, and this is in fact one of the topics of conversation I picked up on while reading someone's post this morning: feature differences and how to ask about them.

[contrariety.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was having the same thought a couple days back. If it were any other blogging site getting shut down by Shadowy Evil Forces of Cybercrime (Possibly the Russian Government) (tm), the internet would be falling all over itself to scream the loudest about freedom of speech, the promise of the brave new world of cyberspace and need to defend it with our lives, etc., etc.

But since it's LJ, and the internet is pissy about LJ, this isn't an attack on freedom of speech: it's just funny.

[redbird]

I don't think there's a Russian-language codesharing comm, but I just asked about that in a comment to the latest DW Update post. FWIW, if someone finds the codesharing community at all, most posts are pretty self-explanatory; worst case is we'd have people using codes and not commenting so they could be marked as used.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I thought I'd see if there was some way to facilitate getting codes into the hands of those who want them.