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ex_uniquewo in no_lj_ads

The end of Basic accounts 0_o

Mar 13, 2008 00:26

Account creation:When creating a new account you're no longer asked to choose an account level. You're only asked if you want to upgrade to a paid account. It is not mentioned anywhere that you can have a free and advertising-free account.

krysaia tells us why: "Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No ( Read more... )

pushing plus level

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tiferet March 12 2008, 23:41:57 UTC

for serious?

ex_uniquewo March 12 2008, 23:50:22 UTC

For serious. I ended up with a Plus account on the first time so I repeated the process a second then a third time to see if I had missed something. I hadn't.

girlfight March 12 2008, 23:54:37 UTC

I don't like that one bit.

tiferet March 13 2008, 00:32:34 UTC

Omfg. They swore they would NEVER do that.

Again.

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girlfight March 12 2008, 23:50:20 UTC

...REALLY? :|

ex_uniquewo March 12 2008, 23:51:18 UTC

Really.

krysaia March 12 2008, 23:56:23 UTC

Apparently new accounts will never be able to switch to Basic - see FAQ #38.

trobadora March 12 2008, 23:58:24 UTC

WHAT.

Okay, that is just... *seethes*

tgies March 13 2008, 00:36:25 UTC

that is just...

business

trobadora March 13 2008, 00:40:29 UTC

Not notifying users of major changes to the site isn't good business practice, though.

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foxfirefey March 13 2008, 00:00:09 UTC

This was pretty inevitable.

ex_uniquewo March 13 2008, 00:05:06 UTC

Yep but I didn't expect the end of basic accounts to happen so soon.

foxfirefey March 13 2008, 00:10:35 UTC

Well, it's the perfect time. SUP didn't make the reassurances that 6A tried to. They've taken over a new property. They paid good money to do so. Time to maximize their investment's monetization. We're just lucky they didn't kill Basic accounts altogether. We know that SUP's head honchos don't really care about soothing ruffled feathers from their past actions--like coopting all those Russians into the SUP program after they said it would be opt in.

donutgirl March 13 2008, 11:42:53 UTC

We're just lucky they didn't kill Basic accounts altogether.

just a matter of time, isn't it?

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emarkienna March 13 2008, 00:08:09 UTC

I wonder if they will even announce this somewhat significant change? Especially since this isn't just an issue for new users, because existing Basic users will also see ads on all the new accounts.

This also means that more and more Basic users will be tempted to switch (if you see ads left, right and centre, why miss out on the extra features? It is a bit annoying when you're the one who sees the ads, but only the ones who put the ads on their LJs are the ones who get the extra features...)

Brad's insistence of it'll only be for those who opt-in looks increasingly laughable...

krysaia March 13 2008, 00:22:41 UTC

I'm sure they won't bother announcing it on news. They just snuck it in to the FAQ - a now-typical LJ tactic.

Thank goodness for AdBlock, because there's no way in hell I'm switching away from Basic.

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yakko March 13 2008, 21:54:21 UTC

That's got to be a joke. What next, outlawing things like noscript on LJ because they will (and I mean they will) disappear ads served via javascript from third parties?

My other account is a basic account (I switched from Plus after I heard about the account change and wanted to test the system). Maybe I should carefully watch things go downhill.

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