Wait, what?

[teyla]

LJ IS FUCKING UP AGAIN.

In a very weird and confusing way. I saw this first on beandelphiki's journal.

Apparently, 6A/SUP have disappeared a bunch of interests off the "Most Popular Interests" page, those being

Sex, Boys, Guys, Girls, Fanfiction, Yaoi, Hardcore, Porn, Bondage, Faeries, Pain, Depression, Bisexuality

What? What what? Makes no sense! Also, makes me unhappy. I've no idea what to make of it. Here's the source where Bean got the info from.

My paid account expires in May. I am seriously considering going back to a basic account.

ETA: Also, another idea I had. Someone should open up a comm where people can offer their old LJ's for new users to take over. Considering that new journals cannot be downgraded all the way to basic anymore, no old user should delete or abandon their journals. If someone wants to leave, they could put their journal up 'for sale' at that comm, for new users to take it over. Using ljArchive, the old user could backup their journal and then delete their entries, and all the new user would have to do was change the password, and optionally pay for a new name. I don't know if this is a good idea, but it's crossed my mind and I thought I'd put it out there.

Comments

[ausmac.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent idea, re the old journal comm. I have at least one spare journal I could do that with, it has basically no entries anyhow.

[teyla]

I might set one up. But I'll have to think of a way to let all of fandom know about it, and especially to let new users know about it. Don't quite know how I should go about that. It would be a nice fuck you gesture to LJ, though xD.

[(Anonymous)]

I suggest you just set it up (maybe call it basicaccounts if it isn't already taken) and then just let all your flist know. I will let all mine know and ask everyone to circulate it. But you should set it up so anyone can post so they don't need to join to do so.

You don't really need to do much monitoring, just let people know what they should do in the way of backing up and deleting their comments, posting the name of the journal and a contact email address.

I'd also suggest that you indicate in comments somewhere that people with Plus accounts have priority over someone who already has a Basic account.

Mac (typing from work, no signed on)

[teyla]

I've set up a comm now (basic_journals), but I'm waiting to hear back from brown_betty whether or not she's okay with me linking to her LJ backup guide.

It'd be awesome if you could pimp out the comm, but best wait till I've got it all figured out and set up, which might still be a while - I'll let you know :). Still gotta think of the best way to handle this - because ljArchive and LJSec only run on Windows. I'll have to find out if there are similar progs for Mac.