jasonshellen, VP of product development at LiveJournal Inc, has resigned.

Late last night (01:43 GMT):

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 ( Read more... )

In summary:

• LJ has halted the creation of new "basic" accounts, so that the only accounts that can be created henceforth are "plus" (supported by advertisements) and "paid". In addition it's not possible to take an account created after yesterday and revert it to "basic". They have sound business reasons for doing this, reasons which they could ( Read more... )

It seems quite likely that other people on your friends list have mentioned this (and jasonshellen's reply hidden under the news post here). If you can't see the the change in FAQ 38 that may be because it hasn't been translated into your language -- try looking at the EN_US version. The UK English version, for example, isn't up ( Read more... )

When an LJ account which was previously a paid account becomes a permanent account, the excess unused paid time can be transferred to another account ( Read more... )

Just a little note to say that this LJ was created five years ago, as of lunchtime on the day before yesterday, as I omitted to mention at the time. Too much else going on, sorry.

Lots of friends have LJs created about then, thanks to hawkida's activities at Damn Fine Con.

Five years, 2598 entries, 11583 comments posted and 15400 received.

The bug which prevented me from commenting from the handheld (a problem since about March of last year) has now been fixed:

Bugfixes -- Yay It's Finally Fixed
Tweaking submit buttons for comments so that it works on Win Mobile IE

Yaaaaaaaaaaay!

A reminder to burr86 of a bug unfixed for the past nine months.

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/12157.html?thread=930685#t930685

... to demonstrate that the day hasn't been completely wasted.

If I've accomplished the necessary voodoo correctly, those of you who are on my friends list can now add tags (chosen from my existing tags) to my posts.

A list of my existing tags is here.

You could suggest new ones in a comment, and I might add them to the list.