Woah

[eohartman]

FYI: LiveJournal is getting rid of the "Basic" (no ads) account.

Everyone who has a free account now still has a free account. However, everyone who chooses to create a new LJ will have to choose between Paid and Plus (with ads). brad's journal goes into a good description of this and also relates how he feels about it.

Comments

[cynicalsiren.livejournal.com]

While I'm glad that Dana and Brad share our sentiment that this decision sucks, it blows even harder that they were overruled and not advised of the choice, much less asked to chime in on it. Lame.

[ftmichael.livejournal.com]

This is why everyone must use Firefox, install* Adblock and Greasemonkey (and the LJ Ad Remover script once you have Greasemonkey), and never see ads on LJ again! (Or anywhere else - between Adblock and Greasemonkey, you really can get rid of just about every annoyance on any website you look at.)

*Please note that 'install' means 'click the install button and it does it all for you', which means it is utterly moron-proof and lazy-bastard-proof. I accept excuses from no one. ;)

[ganimede]

I understand that there are bound to be overheads and wages and things, but somehow I doubt that they require quite the amount of money they seem to be making off this. This will pretty much kill off all the RP communities and no one will be able to make a spin-off journal anymore for anything. LJ has now turned into a business instead of just a blogging site, and of course, they're forgetting the main thing about LJ which is that it requires people. Keep pissing everyone off like this and they will just leave. I keep wondering why I stay but I've been on LJ for five years and there's nowhere else like it. Vox is SixApart, DJ is ..well... dead, JournalFen is so weak in comparison... and I have no idea if GJ or IJ are any good. I really don't like the idea of moving everything, that's like my life there.