Meta / LJ: fare thee well, oh LJ basic account, and Godspeed!

[erestor]

There is "thinking your customers are not the brightest candles on the Christmas tree" and then there's "thinking your customers are complete eejits."

Let me introduce you to jasonshellen, who is LJ's Vice President of Product Development. He's of the latter school of thoughts, as you will soon learn.

Recently, LJ made a news post in which, beside a lot of

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[hms_dauntless]

It seems they like to regularly beat their users on their head. Must be a habit they got from old KGB...
Can only say word to what Alex said about having a backup Wordpress account. If one, I'm happy I did not renew my LJ paid account when it expired.

[deathangelgw]

oh the stupid...it hurts....

[jaiden_s]

LJ has dumped a lot of crap lately, but I think this is by far the smelliest pile of dung. Seriously, what are they thinking??? Why would someone looking for a good blogging experience sign up now? Way to shoot yourself in the foot, LJ.

[chaotic_binky]

I found a way around the advertising. They give a list of types of advertising and if you do not select any you do not get any adverts on the page.

This lot are incredibly greedy and I cannot see it working out for them.

Hugs Binky xxx

[mhari]

o rly?

I've tried that with plus accounts before, and it has never spared me ads.

[chaotic_binky]

I have a plus account, not this one I am using but another one, and never get adverts because I did that. I still have the little advertisement link though at the top of the page but underneath is blank.

[half_elf_lost]

Brad may very well not like it, but his balls have been removed now that he's on the impotent "Advisory Board". See how much his advice that they not do it helped?