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Paid Users Permitted To Buy Over 100 Userpics
Short, concise description of the ideaPaid users are now permitted to buy 100 userpics, billed annually. Permit us to buy additional increments of 100. During subscription reductions, allow us to review all active and inactive icons, and choose for ourselves which will be active at any given time
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It's a great idea. As you say it gives LJ more money; it keeps their customers happy.
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I couldn't imagine having more than a dozen... how confusing... unless your viewing it as an art gallery. :)
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Then again, I don't have any issues with the need for more, I sometimes go through and delete old ones I don't like/use anymore to make room for more. :) I guess it might be nice to buy another 100 spaces, but if it were to increase too much then overall it could start slowing down the servers a bit...
If each paid user bought it, I'd estimate theres half a million paid users, x 200 icons, thats 100million icons x 30 kb (we'll estimate the average size is this) Thats approx 6 mb per person of icons... so 3 million mb, or 2,929 gigabytes (2.9 terrabytes) worth of icons... Thats a hell of a lot. XD heh
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I think I know that only a certain proportion (how many?) of paid users currently buy the extra 100 pics; and an even smaller proportion of those would want to purchase a second or third hundred.
There may not be that many people, as a proportion of all of LJ, paid and unpaid, who would use this option. But the people who want it, want it very much and are willing to pay for it. And as long as there are enough of them in raw numbers (rather than proportionate to all LJ users, paid and free) to make this worthwhile and profitable, I hope the LJ programmers will go ahead with this. :)
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There seems to be plenty of server space for all those ads you've got going on the basic accounts, so seems like there would be room for more user pics as well.
LJ, what say you?
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