Don't drag the orchestra into this thing.

[reddragdiva]

My apologies for coming over all Chicken Licken. I got the discussion I was hoping for (technical discussion on how to implement separate blogs with friends lists, friends-only blog posts and that whole LJ as social life and way to get laid thing), but apparently it's been across LJ and back without people noting the bit in the linked post that says it's purely speculation, i.e. analyst wank. Sorry about that. Look at some of the linked response posts criticising the idea.

(redcountess and arkady both tapped me on the nose about this one. I didn't see fallout on my friends list, but Arkady sure did!)

I did think it was a serious enough threat to warrant discussion — Yahoo (and other companies) are known for buying things and cluelessly fucking them up, and we really have to solve the single point of failure problem in a way that's as technophobe-friendly as LJ. People who can't work computers can use LJ well. How do hundreds or thousands of individual blog sites run friends lists and friends-only posts as wonderfully easily as LJ with the user-friendliness of an appliance, so that people don't have to understand cryptography? (The dancing pigs problem — "given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.") It's a Hard One.

Nontechnical readers: you just need to know we're on the case so this last weekend of horror does not happen again and no-one needs to get a life or anything. Though in the middle future, not the near.