Release 88, Paid time extension

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December 21st, 2011 - Happy December Holidays and welcome to the official LiveJournal newsletter! Bringing you system updates, community events, and other newsworthy nuggets from the world of LiveJournal. Here's a look at what's news on and around LJ:

Release 88
Our final site update of the year, Release 88, is live. Here's a look at a the most

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Enabling automatic payments?

[notaduffer]

I'm not too upset about the auto-disabling of customized comment pages. It could well be a glitch, and we can easily fix it.

But I'm hearing reports from my friends that you auto-enabled account payments on some of their accounts. EVERYONE CHECK YOUR AUTOMATIC PAYMENT SETTINGS HERE. My one paid was done with a gift credit card that I used up long ago, so I'm not worried for me, but this could be a serious problems.

[notaduffer]

I don't know. Could be a glitch, could be malicious, but I personally know three friends who had this problem and I'm hearing of more. Watch your paids, people.

[rachelmanija]

Please tell your friends to report this to the Better Business Bureau. This is an illegal business practice.

[neotoma]

The BBB is a voluntary association. If LJ is actually turning on automatic payments without permission, if a payment goes through, I'm fairly sure that counts as theft and the local Attonery General's office (in the US) needs to be contacted -- in other countries, I'm not sure who would be the relevant people to talk to: fraud division of the police?

[ccroquette]

O.O

Oh, wow.

Re: Enabling automatic payments?

[you_run_i_chase]

Man, this is super duper illegal. Holy shit, it's like they're trying to go out of business.

Re: Enabling automatic payments?

[flamingtoilet]

Honestly, I've been wondering that for a while. Strikethrough didn't kill the site and DDoS didn't kill it, so why not try something like this? I wouldn't put it past the government (of any nation, not just Russia) to try to kill something that was so big and caused so many problems for them.

But then, I'm a conspiracy nut like that.

[gyuri]

Conspiracy theory: igirick actually works for the government and was employed to take down livejournal from the inside.

[flamingtoilet]

And now it all makes sense.

[zimon66]

I'm thinking the same thing. igrick is pro-government/Putin supporter.

[soph]

I think that whatever trick you're using to make the user link there isn't working properly any more :(

Re: Enabling automatic payments?

[shiros_ashes]

This seems to be, primarily, happening to accounts that have been continuously paid for over a year or two or more, or more accurately back when LJ had automatic payments as the default system for paid accounts rather than manual. I checked all of my paids and none of them changed status, but all of mine were also only paid for relatively recently, just in the last year and a half, when manual was the default.

[notaduffer]

Yes, that's the pattern I'm hearing. So if that applies to anyone reading this, make especially sure to go and check. It was probably a rollback glitch with the settings or something.

[withoutverona]

This account has been continually paid since 2008, but I've never used auto-payments. Is it only happening to people who had it enabled at one point?

[morphitudinous]

No, I've heard it's happening to people who've never had it enabled before. If you have the info of an active credit card attached to your account you need to check!