LJ changing even further?

[ratcreature]

It seems there are even more fundamental changes on the horizon for LJ than this "improved" friends page. In this thread of the LJ release post a user links to a thread from the ru_news announcement in which apparently someone from LJ says that for spring next year they are planning to discontinue paid accounts.

If that is true it makes sense how they keep leveling the differences between free and paid accounts, like with the Scrapbook now being available for everyone, and the customization options (that were more flexible with paid accounts) being abandoned.

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[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

Whoa, have you tried the new version of the friends page? Now called a "feed"? Yucky. Wonder if we'll have any icons in the new set up?

I normally don't care much what LJ does or doesn't do, but I have to admit, I'm not wild about this change.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I tried it. Not thrilled. Besides anything else, it doesn't even have the summary module anymore and that's what I use to see new entry subjects at a glance and also whether a post has gotten new comments since I'd seen it.

My account expires in February, and I'm pretty sure once it does I won't renew it (especially not if I just risk having my money vanish two months later or so when they might abandon their account types). I've been using it less and less anyway.