LJ Account

[frau_flora]

I have a question for my friends with paid LJ accounts: My paid account will expire in two days. I tried to renew it by paying with my credit card but the transaction failed. Presumably because they only accept credit cards issued by Russian banks, it says so on the page where you can renew your subscription. But they don't offer any other methods

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[akane42me]

Last year I was unable to renew my account too. I sent a note to the LJ tech help explaining that my payment was not accepted. LJ renewed it for free .
I will be doing this again in a week or so,and I hope LJ will renew it for free again. I would hate to deal with ads.

I think anyone can own a community but maybe the FAQs would have that information.

[frau_flora]

Oh, that's right, I didn't think of that. I just wrote to LJ Support, asking what I could do. Thank you!

I couldn't find anything in FAQ but maybe I missed something. Now I'll just wait and see what Support tells me.

[fiorenza_a]

I can't answer the first question, but I can definitely say the holder of a free Lj account can own a community - but you might not retain all the bells and whistles - plus you might have to rethink your journal style as they're not all free. I've just taken over pros_wip and I'm not finding any issues, if you wanted to check that out.

[frau_flora]

Ah, thank you! That's very reassuring. I don't care too much for style etc. but I would hate for the comm to just disappear.

[spikesgirl58]

All you have to do is send a message to the folks at LJ and they will renew your account.

Hope that helps a bit.

[frau_flora]

Thank you! In fact that's what I just did. akane42me suggested that too and for her they renewed it for free. Did they do that for you too?

[spikesgirl58]

Excellent! My account is good until 2026, I think, but they renewed my user package for free this past December.