Update to Development Priorities

[theljstaff]

Back in March we provided you with our Development Priorities for 2008, and updated you on the progress we made on the original 100 day plan. We also mentioned we would continue to engage with the community on future plans, and in subsequent updates talked about the Advisory Board elections (April) and Basic Account proposals (July). Thanks to

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[phoenixdreaming]

This sounds pretty good, and I'm very interested in the search plans. Thanks for the update!

[shatterstripes]

Search! Statistics! SEARCH!!!

Yay!

[claystorm]

Sounds good to me. I really like have two different-data centers in different parts of the US / World. Just incase crap happens, cus we all know it can and will one day.

[jewelianna]

Statistics will be opt-out, right? Or at least numbers only, not a "see who viewed my journal" thing?

[marta]

Yes. The way it works on lj.ru right now is that you can opt out of your information ever showing on anyone else's "My Guests" results - but you won't be able to see who visited you through that program if you opt out.

[jewelianna]

Since I seriously don't care who views my journal, I'm okay with that. I lock everything anyway- nothing to see here. But good, cause if my movements were being tracked I'd be out of here.

I hope you have a lot of notice before this goes live with clear instructions how to opt out. I know a LOT of people aren't going to want that feature.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

[marta]

Yes, we'll have plenty of notice before all new features - we'll announce it before it goes live, with the opt-out information.

[spectralbovine]

Single-post suspend
Very nice!

comments allowed per post
Oh, nice! That'll make the love memes last longer.

We plan another permanent account sale in November.
Now up to $200?

A la carte purchase of additional userpics to be released in November, and increased limits for free userpics for Plus and Paid accounts
But I assume Permanent account holders would get the maximum allowed already, right?

[marta]

We've got no final information on the price, so opinions would be welcome!

I'll check on the plan for the extra userpic packages and if that would affect Permanent Accounts.

[spectralbovine]

We've got no final information on the price, so opinions would be welcome!
Well, all I know is that it went up $50 each time, right? And I paid $150 for mine the last time. ERGO. But I think a discount may be in order, since I'm sure people are still somewhat wary of handing over their money to this new organization, although the recent developments have been looking good. Maybe $150 again, or just $100?

I'll check on the plan for the extra userpic packages and if that would affect Permanent Accounts.
Thanks. What does it mean, á la carte? Like, you could pay per userpic rather than only getting fifteen or sixty or whatever? As for Permanent Accounts, they've generally increased the limit for us each time they've increased the limit for Paid Accounts in general, but I don't know how crazy they're going with the new limit. I know some sites offer something like a thousand slots.

[matgb]

some sites offer something like a thousand slots.

GreatestJournal did. I understand GJ no longer exists. From what I understand the site architecture is really screwy with too many userpics, but maybe the CDN is helping there?