Details on Possible sale (take 2)
I have shut off votes and comments on the previous post. The comments I received there made me rethink things so this is going to be the new poll to gauge things
We are considering doing a fund raiser on IJ so we can move off our of Dedicated Servers and onto our own collocated servers. What this will allow us to do is lower the overall cost for running IJ and therefore be able to more easily upgrade our service as we will only have to add in hardware and not up our monthly costs to do this. In turn we can look at lowering prices around here once the site is moved and everything is stable.
What we hope to do is offer a new kind of account. The name isn't locked in stone but we are thinking of calling it "Hospital Benefactor". We will limit the sale to 350 of these accounts and charge $100 for them. We haven't finalized what the specs on the account will be, just that they will be a little more loaded than Permanently Insane accounts. Something like 1000 userpics. And more notifications, etc.
We will only move forward on this if we can be sure there is going to be enough interest. Moving onto our own hardware has a number of benefits and we think it is worthwhile to attempt this sale.
Edit: We will allow you to transfer Permanently Insane status to another account if you already have one and you purchase one of these accounts
Edit 2>: If you answer maybe can you please let us know what we could to do change that maybe to a yes. Also please let everyone on your f-list know about this poll so we can get a large enough sampling of answers to know what we should do.
Poll #3722 Upgraded Account
Open to: All, results viewable to: All
We are considering doing a fund raiser on IJ so we can move off our of Dedicated Servers and onto our own collocated servers. What this will allow us to do is lower the overall cost for running IJ and therefore be able to more easily upgrade our service as we will only have to add in hardware and not up our monthly costs to do this. In turn we can look at lowering prices around here once the site is moved and everything is stable.
What we hope to do is offer a new kind of account. The name isn't locked in stone but we are thinking of calling it "Hospital Benefactor". We will limit the sale to 350 of these accounts and charge $100 for them. We haven't finalized what the specs on the account will be, just that they will be a little more loaded than Permanently Insane accounts. Something like 1000 userpics. And more notifications, etc.
We will only move forward on this if we can be sure there is going to be enough interest. Moving onto our own hardware has a number of benefits and we think it is worthwhile to attempt this sale.
Edit: We will allow you to transfer Permanently Insane status to another account if you already have one and you purchase one of these accounts
Edit 2>: If you answer maybe can you please let us know what we could to do change that maybe to a yes. Also please let everyone on your f-list know about this poll so we can get a large enough sampling of answers to know what we should do.
Poll #3722 Upgraded Account
Open to: All, results viewable to: All
Would you be willing to pay $100 for this account
That being said, I'm wondering if you've thought about just having another Permanent sale? I know myself as well as some other people would definitely jump at the chance to have more. Were a lot sold last time?
Regardless, thank you so so much for everything you do for the site and all the updates!
If LJ became so hopelessly judgemental that I decided to move my personal blog here then $100 for a lifetimes blogging is more than reasonable. But at the moment they are being sort of sensible and I can't justify spending that amount speculatively.
Also, in theory, say I buy this account would it be possible to transfer my perm account status to another username so I wouldn't loose that purchase?
Either way that's what would make me change my maybe to a yes.
How many...
To make my Maybe a yes, give me a way to back up or archive the comments to my posts!
Yes the icons would be great, I feel severely constricted right about now (I have found all my 'lost' icons, all 500 of them) and the option to have 1000 icons in one account is fantastic, but, to be honest i would rather preserve the writings of the RP Community I am a part of, so the archiving comments is far more important!
That said, there was a suggestion above of a donation button. That I can definitely do, even if it's a minimal amount. It does add up, so I hope you'll consider this, possibly in conjunction with the sale. I'd like to contribute in some way, even if I can't purchase one of the shiny new accounts.
Photo storage!
Better organization for uploading icons, it's so hard now I rarely do it. PLEASE move the "here are your pretty pics!" off the same page as the upload form!
Of course, fixing comment rot.
Ummm, I don't know... one free paid asylum that comes along with every benefactor account?
Ability to edit comments.
I'll post if I think of other features I'd pay for. But you've got my hundred bucks either way.
I primarily use IJ for roleplaying, and I think you'll find a huge chunk of your population does as well. I would pay 100 dollars if I could have one paid benefit for multiple accounts instead of just one. Maybe like... 125-150 icons or access to styles. One or two perks that I can spread out over, say, ten journals for a year. Buying a paid account for ten journals just isn't worth it to me, because there are only 1 or 2 paid benefits that I would actually utilise, but being able have an "ala carte" option on multiple journals would make me consider dropping that kind of cash.
Hope that made some sort of sense.