Shit.

[azurelunatic]

Create your free, ad-free accounts now, goddamnit.

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Postcard time.

Jason Shellen
576 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA 94105

Six Apart - Sales Department
548 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

feedback@ is preaching to the choir.
Support requests are preaching to an increasingly pissed-off choir.
Postcard time.

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19:14
http://www.sup.com/en/contacts.html has information on it that would be useful if one wanted to contact SUP management for any reason. Say, to talk about recent (upper) management-level decisions at LiveJournal. (stolen blatantly from idonotlikepeas, via a few people)

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Comments

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I think it may already be too late.

[trickofthedark.livejournal.com]

It is too late. I just tried.

[azurelunatic]

Dammit.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask?

[azurelunatic]

SUP just made their first major misstep, in not giving PLENTY OF MOTHERFUCKING WARNING for disabling the creation of basic, plain, ad-free accounts.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

What. The fuck! >.<;;

If everyone else's sudden posts about this subject is any indication, I guess it was only a matter of time. I hope that enough of us write in and can convince the management to change its collective mind. >.<

[azurelunatic]

Oh dear. It's going to be Our Fearless Leader who has to deal with it, not the suits.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Depends on how people write in.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Why is it that the ones who were LEAST involved with the decision-making process AND the concealment of it until after the fact, have to deal with the fallout? >.<;; Damn!

ETA (well after the fact by now): I now know who you actually meant. ^^;; I had foolishly assumed that by "Fearless Leader," you meant someone entirely different (as in someone on one of our teams). The one to whom (I think) you refer, I had never even heard of before, and I hadn't been following the news threads. ^^;; My apologies for any confusion I may have caused here due to my own ignorance of the situation and my misunderstanding of it.

[azurelunatic]

I had actually been referring to an IRC regular who routinely deals with feedback@.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute. So if you have a "free" account now, you aren't allowed to have it without advertising?

This just gets better and better every day, don't it.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

For new accounts, yes. Old basic/free accounts aren't being converted.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

What gameboyguy13 said. Also, after a bit of testing to make sure, it looks like an account that existed prior to the change and is currently Plus level, can still be switched to Basic and vice versa. This change applies only to new accounts that didn't previously exist.

Still... I agree, this sucks ass. >.<

[raranax.livejournal.com]

sigh. It is bad enough that I have to see the adds on other people plus accounts.

[azurelunatic]

Yeah. So glad I'm permanent.

[sarahendipity.livejournal.com]

Firefox + AdblockPlus = Adfree every webpage, including LJ, no matter what = LOVE!

[azurelunatic]

I've got a permanent account, so as long as I'm me, I won't see ads. But. Argh.

[pne.livejournal.com]

so as long as I'm me, I won't see ads.

Which, unfortunately, also means that if you're logged out (cookie expired, you clicked Logout, random glitch, whatever) - ads. Permanent account or not. Because if doesn't know your account level until you've logged in.

I wish that when they had introduced ads, they'd be shown only to Plus users. Not even to Basic users who're reading a Plus account, let alone on the logged-ou main page. But ah well. That's all water down the stream.

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

I would have really liked that too. But, yes, water up the rope.

[http://users.livejournal.com/chas_/]

You people are assuming that upper management gives a shit about what users really think.

All the bellyaching in the world isn't going to change this decision.

SUP acquired LJ for one reason and one reason only - to make money. Free accounts don't make money.

If I were a permanent account holder, I'd start getting nervous. You folks are only slightly less money making than free accounts.

[http://users.livejournal.com/chas_/]

"slightly more money making", I meant to say

[azurelunatic]

I'm going to go with Brad on this one: http://brad.livejournal.com/2368071.html

[pne.livejournal.com]

Free accounts don't make money.

As azurelunatic said by pointing to brad's post - maybe not directly.

But if free accounts go away and take their content with them, there'll be a number of paid account users who'll no longer see the point, if much of their community is gone.