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[theljstaff]

In last week’s announcements we aimed to bring you up to speed on the progress we had made in the first 100 days, and describe how the user elections to our Advisory Board will be managed. Much has happened since the last update we made to the LiveJournal community last Friday

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[southernflower]

also can we bring back the option, if even for a weekend, the option to buy permanent accounts?

[acoustics1220]

I second this.

[not_a_lamb]

me three.

[kahlan_amnell]

With the way LJ is going now, I don't think buying a perminant account is a wise investment. I have a perminant account, but I worry if it will stay truley perminant.

[seasongs]

I think a limited-time free basic trial account for all new users might be a really nice incentive to get them to try the service. And I really do like the idea of current users being able to create new paid accounts.

I also really appreciate that you are trying to give the users a voice, and I'm glad for this post, as the last one was concerning.

[nimbrethil]

New paid accounts? Did you mean to say basic? Because anyone already can create as many new paid accounts as they like, lol.

I don't like the idea at all of possibly allowing existing users to create ad-free accounts (which is the point of basic) while not allowing new ones to. That's only going to piss off the new users. There's no reason at all to allow one group of users access to adless free accounts and have no way at all for new users to ever have access to them.

[tamibrandt]

You said: I think a limited-time free basic trial account for all new users might be a really nice incentive to get them to try the service. And I really do like the idea of current users being able to create new paid accounts.

My personal journal is a paid account.

The 3-4 communities I run are on Basic (as I have been a registered member since 2005)

I kinda like that I don't have to pay to keep my active communities going and so do thousands of other people who used Basic Accounts for communities.

The day that I have to pay more money to keep my communities, I'm moving said communities over to InsaneJournal COMPLETELY (ie: directing all members to use the IJ account to post/comment instead).

[sasha_davidovna]

I like the idea of basic accounts as a kind of free trial for a limited time, with users then having the opportunity to choose whether to stick with a free but ad-supported account or upgrade to a Paid account.

I also like the idea I've seen kicked around in a number of comments here of allowing basic accounts on a non-trial basis with invite-codes from paid users. It might be a little more complicated, but it keeps the option open for new uesers who really are uncomfortable with hosting ads on their journals. (Especially since some people use their journals to talk about sensitive issues that sometimes turn up wildly inappropriate AdSense ads.)

[sam42]

The announcement last Wednesday was a mistake in regards to Basic accounts, as the change was not clearly stated, it did not allow for you to provide feedback, and went into effect immediately. Many of you have pointed out that the decision worried you less than the way it was communicated. You should have been given a voice, and you were not; we didn’t follow our own rules, and we apologize.

At this point we are working on a solution to enable existing LiveJournal users to create new Basic accounts as so many of you have requested. Nothing has been decided yet, but we are considering options which would allow existing users to continue to create new Basic accounts.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This was exactly what I wanted.

This should also be posted in news.

And...first page?

ETA:
Subscriptions - Should moderators be able to charge for access to closed communities?

Very bad idea.

[bubble_blunder]

Thirded.

[maraceles]

Agreed.

[nekura_yamiyo]

I also agree that the apology should have gone in news.

[lion]

This is the post we all wanted to see in news last week, I think. Good job -- this is a lot better.