Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

[azurelunatic]

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Title
Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

Short, concise description of the idea
LiveJournal should offer use of the Edit Journal Privacy tool at no charge to all users,

Comments

[kayt_arminta]

-1 It's a paid feature. Why do people keep asking for paid things to be free? There's a reason that it's a paid feature and not a free one, just think about it a little and maybe you'll see how selfish and entitled people sound when asking to make paid things free.

Maybe LJ should start an a-la-cart features list, so you can just pay for the paid features you want instead of everything you won't use. Like for me, the polls and a bunch of other features I'll never use, but if I could take them off and make my yearly paid time just a little lower that would be cool... though I'm betting there would be a LOT of fiddly code to work with and it's probably not worth the time for LJ staff for a couple of bucks here and there.

[koulagirl666]

Now that I'd go for - there are so many paid features that I just don't/can't use, and if I could sell back/not buy them maybe LJ wouldn't have to keep that space for me. Like scrapbook space on the server that I'm not using but someone else might like to, or the phone posts my provider is incompatible with.

[kayt_arminta]

Exactly. A lot of people would benefit from it. But I doubt it'll happen, like I said, it's probably a ton of fiddly code.

[koulagirl666]

I don't see it being all that fiddly actually. They can already add things like support privs on an individual basis, and userpic add-ons are done individually as well (like if you buy the 100 userpics on a paid account, you have 100 more than someone who hasn't), so the structure exists. So it would just be like having everything like that, so when you logged in the system would go Y or N for each add on and for each Y quantify an expiry date, the way it does for userpics now.

then again, if they're having so much trouble making the userpics a la carte, I guess it wouldn't happen.

Even a tickybox when paying for a paid account that asks what features you want?

[kayt_arminta]

Would be handy *nods, then shrugs* But I can live without it, especially since it's probably never going to happen.

[radiantsoul]

It would be quite hard to document and might be pretty confusing to new members.

[cesy]

They'll already take into account people who don't use all their scrapbook space, though, when calculating how much server space they need.

[worldserpent]

Possibly it wouldn't necessarily make things cheaper, though. The polls and the features that lots of people don't use would probably be cheaper. Icons and the features that take up resources majorly would be more expensive, because they can no longer rely on the people who get paid accounts and don't use that many icons to subsidize the people who use all of their icons frequently.

[charliemc]

Well stated. I agree.

-1

[kayt_arminta]

It REALLY pisses me off how entitled and pampered people sound when they demand to get for free stuff that is PAID. There is a REASON for it to be paid, it's either high demand or a high resource user and it makes sense for LJ, as a BUSINESS, to charge for such things.