] It's official. LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick says:

] Why is Six Apart buying LiveJournal? Lots of reasons:

] * Our companies are more alike than different.

] * We both use Perl.

] * Together we form super robot that's stronger than
] the sum of its parts.

] * Super robots can fight super companies.

] * They respect us, we respect them.

] * We have a number of features they don't.

] * We have experience with making "inward-facing"
] community sites, whereas their sites/products tend to be
] "outward-facing". They want some of that inward-facing
] action.

] * Because we're awesome.

] What does this mean for LiveJournal? Nothing
] earth-shattering. LiveJournal development and support
] will continue, and will probably even accelerate, as we
] grow the team. We'll continue to work on speed,
] reliability, and new features. LiveJournal won't become
] paid-user-only or anything crazy like that. We're not
] going to raise prices. We're not going to cancel
] permanent accounts, etc, etc. And we're not going to spam
] or sell your information. You own your journals, not us.
] Really you shouldn't see any negative changes. The most
] immediate changes will be that we'll start to get
] prettier... more styles, themes, etc. Six Apart is really
] good at that and we're not.

LiveJournal announces sale to Six Apart