Basic accounts and Paid Users

[rob_donoghue]

Title
Basic accounts and Paid Users

Short, concise description of the idea
I would suggest that the paid users get the ability to create even a limited number of basic accounts.

Full description of the ideaI'm a paid user, and happy to be one, but I occasionally spawn off secondary accounts for projects, games and other entertainments. The recent

Comments

[vvalkyri]

Somewhat off topic, but I would be overjoyed to have other accounts behave like subaccounts. I can count on one hand the times I've read the friendspage from anything other than Vvalkyri, and it would be nice to be able to maintain another reading list on a special interest account.

[isiscolo]

Oh! This is an awesome idea!

[charliemc]

This is an incredibly reasonable suggestion, considering how negative most of us feel about the loss of Basic accounts...

The stats show that there are very few Paid users compared to those who don't pay, so it seems reasonable regarding numbers of accounts this would impact.

(Of course, I'm not convinced Paid accounts add up to revenue for the LJ owners in the same way that the advertising dollar does, so...)

Obviously Paid users feel invested in LJ and would like to feel that LJ is open to concessions for us, whether this is true or not. (smile)

I agree that most of us have multiple journals -- and rarely pay for more than a couple. And I also agree that Plus accounts are unattractive, at best...

[turlough]

+1

[ex_uniquewo]

If you set them up as subaccount, I'm even willing to share content between my own accounts, so as to not require more resources for userpics and such.

Nifty idea.

[pbristow]

Ooh, yes! I missed that on first reading. That's good sound economic reasoning.

Effectively, what we're talking about here is one *account* (at least in the financial sense), but with multiple associated *userIDs* (each with their own associated journal), yes?

[isiscolo]

In a way, this kind of goes with the old "invite code" scheme, doesn't it? In that paid users got invite codes that they could distribute or use for secondary accounts.

I think this is a good idea, and I like the sub-account idea as well.

[lovefromgirl]

Oh, lordy, yes. :-)