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When LiveJournal, Inc., was launched in December the new team made it very clear that LiveJournal was going to change. We also said that we would respect the values and legacy of LiveJournal. But, we can’t ignore the fact that as LiveJournal nears its second decade it needs to make some business decisions
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There is nothing unusual in closing of basic account registration, says Anton Nosik, head of the blog service at Sup: ‘There are no other commercial services in the internet with similar accounts. There are non-profitable blog resources (for example, Lj.Rossia.org, Diary.ru, - CNews’s note) with no advertising, disputes committees, technical support services, additional services. So one can hardly predict what might happen to such blog resources in case of sharp increase in the number of subscribers’. Mr. Nosik adds that there is also nothing illogical in LiveJournal to have made no announcement: ‘We do not consider it necessary to inform those, who have not opened a basic account during 9 years of LiveJournal’s existence, that there is no such an opportunity any longer’.
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If there are no other commercial services in the internet with similar accounts. then wouldn't you think that would set LJ apart from all the rest ? I came here in the beginnings as a basic account user ... upgraded to a paid account after I realized how much I love LJ, and now I'm a plus account user by choice. I don't understand how they expect to get much new 'business' if they take away the sort of "try and buy" option that the basic account was for so many people.
Yes, they do need to inform everyone of the change. I tell lots of people about LJ, and they usually seem interested to join. A lot of the people on my friends list are people who joined after me because of me. If LJ is going to revert to a pay service, I doubt many new people will join by word of mouth from current users.
These people are stupid.
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That SUP does not realize how different a community site[*] is, does not bode well. Once again, it appears that LJ is owned by folks who don't quite understand what they bought.
[*] Social networking sites in general may fall into this category depending on how they were set up, run, and marketed, or may be in their own separate category.
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In a sense, LJ is like a company with stockholders (=paid account users). You'd better make sure your stockholders are happy.
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