Like many who are here, I'm not terribly happy with the changes that Livejournal has gone through for the past several years now. (I miss you brad.) I started thinking about how I am not happy with the profit model that Livejournal's running on and haven't been for a while. However, I am loathe to leave Livejournal. It's been my home for 7 years now and all of my friends are here. Moving your journal is something of a nightmare.

So, I started thinking about Livejournal and it hit me -- let's buy it and make it a non-profit.

Let's stop thinking small with protests and Livejournal News comment overloads. Think big.

Let's buy Livejournal and make it what we want.

Here's my crazy idea that I am sure will require some math/business/law geniuses to figure out the nitty-gritty details but why not seriously consider having the userbase buy Livejournal and run it as a non-profit? That way, we're not interested in shareholders or making money and we have our Livejournal again. Someone with a business degree can come up with the details but it's doable, isn't it? Create a non-profit board, having voting rights for all the members (userbase), spend income on upgrading and maintaining the site and don't care about how much money the site made this month.

Could we do this? What do you think?