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So... I've been mostly gone these last several days and I haven't looked at my flist for about two weeks... and people are striking tomorrow? It appears to be a big hullaballoo.

IF I don't post tomorrow, it will just as likely be because I'm busy (helping GrandmaShaka move) as because of the strike. I'll let you know after the fact.

Edit: apparently basic accounts might get eliminated? HuWHA? What if we had a paid account for two years but lapsed into basic again? Would we get warnings for this kind of thing? I don't want to wake up one morning and have my LJ gone.

Fuck. Well, good thing I have an Journalfen account. Even if I have never used it except for f_w... damn this is annoying. And the comm fee subscriptions suggestion? WTF was that about? I can't think of a more off-putting idea, and I've been a mod for a long time.


Sometimes thinking about LJ's technical drama is just too worrisome. I haven't personally gotten stricken for content yet, so I forget that this drama stuff affects me, even though it does.

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You can't make new basic accounts as of March 12th. Only free-with-ads and paid ones. They didn't announce this, just did it, and had the usual commentstorm and Public Relations fumbling in a news post before claiming that it was part of planned streamlining. Then 'depression' 'fanfic' and a few other terms disappeared from the top interests list. That was a glitch and they were restored.

I'm not sure if a content/adhits strike will actually do anything...but a lot of people are at the last straw...but don't like the other journalling services and just want LJ to stop messing things up.