Comments on: SUP forces ads on LJ users http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/ Aaron B. Russell's personal blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:47:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: jon http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/comment-page-1/#comment-8352 jon Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:47:54 +0000 http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/#comment-8352 livejournal isn't the site it was when brad ran it. Back then it was run like an excusive club for its members. That worked ok back then but whether that could have been sustained or grown i don't know. The site always had to make money, so the advert revenue is essential but Brad fitz is right. I still have a paid account so why do i have to see an advert when i log in? I'm more annoyed at that than the fact that new users can't be free users. This is only the latest in a long line of things to make the user experience worse. Free users always see adverts on other peoples' journals so the only yay to get rid of them is to get an increasingly expensive paid account. Still the removal of free accounts was probably only to be expected from this trend.. livejournal isn’t the site it was when brad ran it. Back then it was run like an excusive club for its members. That worked ok back then but whether that could have been sustained or grown i don’t know.
The site always had to make money, so the advert revenue is essential but Brad fitz is right. I still have a paid account so why do i have to see an advert when i log in? I’m more annoyed at that than the fact that new users can’t be free users. This is only the latest in a long line of things to make the user experience worse. Free users always see adverts on other peoples’ journals so the only yay to get rid of them is to get an increasingly expensive paid account. Still the removal of free accounts was probably only to be expected from this trend..

]]> By: Aaron B. Russell http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/comment-page-1/#comment-8350 Aaron B. Russell Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:31:02 +0000 http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/#comment-8350 @jon: I'm not against adverts. I'm against forcing people to have them where they don't want them. I want them here at LostEntropy.com because I'm taking on the cost of managing the site myself and I'd like the few pence a month they earn me. Over at LiveJournal.com, users had the option of turning ads on for more features, or off for a basic feature set, or paying to get no ads AND more features. Now the free, no ads option isn't there. Also, they're on the site chrome at LJ now. It's the general mismanagement of LiveJournal since Danga sold it that frustrates me, though. @jon:
I’m not against adverts. I’m against forcing people to have them where they don’t want them. I want them here at LostEntropy.com because I’m taking on the cost of managing the site myself and I’d like the few pence a month they earn me.

Over at LiveJournal.com, users had the option of turning ads on for more features, or off for a basic feature set, or paying to get no ads AND more features. Now the free, no ads option isn’t there. Also, they’re on the site chrome at LJ now. It’s the general mismanagement of LiveJournal since Danga sold it that frustrates me, though.

]]> By: jon http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/comment-page-1/#comment-8346 jon Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:49:30 +0000 http://lostentropy.com/2008/03/13/sup-forces-ads-on-lj-users/#comment-8346 http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68484587#t68484587 Wow that spin is worthy of the labour party. Having said that isn't this somewhat hypocritical of you aaron? You've gone from a blogging site that stopped new users signing up not having adverts and replaced it with one that has adverts anyway. http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68484587#t68484587

Wow that spin is worthy of the labour party.

Having said that isn’t this somewhat hypocritical of you aaron? You’ve gone from a blogging site that stopped new users signing up not having adverts and replaced it with one that has adverts anyway.

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