Oh, yeah, I remember Strikethrough and Boldthrough - the original Strikethrough panic broke during Anime North and people kept running to the hotel business center - they had no wifi at the time - to make sure their journals were still there. The staffer who responded to that claims that nobody who was responsible for all that is still on LJ staff - not sure if that's true or a big "Please don't leave us, we admit we were wrong back in the day!", but it definitely sounds like they're aware people won't stand for something like that again.