Not a Good Sign.

[swestrup]

LiveJournal has removed the option to create a free ad-free account. From now on you can only create an ad-supported or a paid account. "Justification" Here. Note that there still has not been an official announcement of this. I think they were hoping no one would notice. Cretins.

I've been resisting believing that LJ was going down hill, and had pretty much persuaded myself to get a paid account once I could afford it again. Now I'm seriously rethinking that. I may just have to find another site for my journal.

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[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

When I had a paid account, it wasn't for the features; I wanted to support something that I believed in. I let it lapse in the early 6A era because I was suspicious of the changes and corporate attitude. I regained much hope when SUP announced a more transparent policy-making structure, but this has just blown it out of the water. I can't imagine any feature they could add that would convince me to pay again.