What strikes me, from reading lj_maintenance is how much money and personnel time LJ must be burning: A staff of three or four are both supporting tens of thousands of users and pretty nearly constantly (incidents at least once per week for the past few weeks) replacing and upgrading servers and networking hardware. Being able to pad their wallet will help prepare for the day that there aren't enough $2.50/month users to support all the freeloaders.
I'm sympathetic with Brad being forced to decide between becoming a platform developer or corporate manager and choosing the one he's happier with. Judging from his remorse in previous announcements about surrendering his absolute control of LJ to new staff hires, I don't imagine he's thrilled about selling off the whole package.
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Date: 2005-01-06 10:53 am (UTC)I'm sympathetic with Brad being forced to decide between becoming a platform developer or corporate manager and choosing the one he's happier with. Judging from his remorse in previous announcements about surrendering his absolute control of LJ to new staff hires, I don't imagine he's thrilled about selling off the whole package.