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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[erunyauve_e]

This is a big change. A huge change. A massive, giant, enormous change for LJ, so one should think it would have been mentioned in news.

I suppose they couldn't have told people this was coming for fear that people would create a hoard of free accounts. But yes, I wish they'd call it for what it is. It just seems to me that if they were less concerned with competing with Facebook and the like with all the extra features and more concerned with what LJ users want, they would do well enough in their niche.