Not giving up

[dewline]

Noticed some of my friendlist considering walking away from LJ, and at least one contact deciding they have had enough.

Not me. Not giving up on the place.

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

*pats*

STicking around too. But I'm also on dreamwidth, so...

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

It does seem a bit like kicking someone when they're down. Other services have had DDOS attacks and you just ride them out. I think it's a bit childish, really, to act as if it's somehow LJ's fault.

[matthigh.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between being "LJ's fault" and being "LJ's responsibility".

Part of what was so irritating was the almost-complete radio silence coming out of Livejournal itself, other than a couple of sentences saying "we're under attack, we're working on it" more than a day after it started. It's now on Day Five, the site is still a bit wonky and kicking out errors (http://status.livejournal.org/), and lots of rumors flying around (http://varymydays.tumblr.com/post/8143622925/livejournal-ddos-attacks) about the Russian government (http://ericsriley.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/livejournal-ddos-an-actual-internet-human-rights-violations/) and political blogs and such. Bah.

Furthermore, this was not the first such attack. This was not the *second* such attack. This was actually the *third* (and largest) such attack in the past year. When does Livejournal stop playing the victim and start taking the preventative measures to make sure this does not happen in the future? What assurances do we have that Livejournal will be a reliable platform in the future?

I'm not leaving Livejournal, but it's quite clear that unless Livejournal takes some pretty serious steps to mitigate the affects of such DDoS attacks in the future (such as other companies have done (http://barry.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/wordpress-com-ddos-details/)), then I cannot trust it as a primary platform.

It's not so much the attack itself that is bothersome, but Livejournal's response (or lack of it) that is troubling.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Good points, all.

If it is a side effect of attempts by certain factions within the Russian govt. to bring the rest of their population to "Just Shut Up and Endure What WE Tell You to Endure", though?

That gives us one more reason to stick with LJ. For the sake of people we don't yet know, it's worth the trouble.

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

I'm not giving up on an organization which is fighting a hostile government to continue to give voice to everyone, including its nation's dissidents just because my access occasionally gets a little spotty:
http://squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com/176999.html

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

I'm in agreement with you, and will be sticking with LJ for the foreseeable future.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

So will I.

DDoS attacks are too damn common these days. [I wonder if Dreamwidth will also lose customers when the inevitable DDoS attack wallops it too?]

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You suspect similar plans in the works for them?

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Not specifically ... but it wouldn't surprise me if the [animal] crackers in question are (in effect) playing "Whack-a-mole". :-(

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Point taken.

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

Well, this is my thought, too. Eventually DreamWidth will get attacked, too, even if just out of some hacker group's boredom. What then?