The end of Basic accounts 0_o

[ex_uniquewo]

Account creation:When creating a new account you're no longer asked to choose an account level. You're only asked if you want to upgrade to a paid account. It is not mentioned anywhere that you can have a free and advertising-free account.

krysaia tells us why: "Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No

Comments

[polyfrog]

Brad promised that we would never be forced to see ads.

And so we are not.

Those new guys, though...they have to see ads or pay.

[emarkienna]

Remember that we (non-paid/permanent users) do still see adverts on various "official" pages and on plus accounts (which will obviously be increasing in number now...)

[sabbrielle]

And basic users see "sponsored content," a useless distinction.

[matgb]

Including those signing up just to comment because it's easier, or vote in my polls.

I was planning on doing a push amongst my non-account-holding readers to get them to sign up so I can keep track of them (because OpenID isn't good enough and I doubt they're going to take it out of alpha on LJ for ages). Don't think I will now.

[akashattered]

I gave up on OpenID when they suspended mine with no warning. And I won't even get into why I believe it happened.