I cannot tell you how MUCH I love IJ and buying permenet accounts seems like the least I can do to help out (and I'm going for more when I get home!). I love the atmosphere here and just wanted to thank YOU again!

You're very welcome. It's user's think you and the rest of the Permanently Insane that make this site a project worth doing.

I'm feeling very comfy here and recc'd the perm accounts at my LJ. It's a real sweet deal, I hope lots more people get the word.

The only complaint I've heard so far is the default text size is set to Tiny for most styles and a few of my friends can't figure out how to change it. Any advice for them?

Again, keep up the great work! :D

Thank you! At the moment, I'm rather broke, so simply_ellie is responsible for my permaccount, but I do plan to buy some myself once I'm more solvent. As many as I can afford, really, and I brought over 25 roleplaying accounts and my "mun" journal, so that'll hopefully give me a chance to show lavish appreciation. I love it here. I love your policies and features, and Tweak is ridiculously cute (yes, I'm also planning on buying some things from CafePress once I'm solvent). I'd have been here years ago if I'd known about it; if there's one good thing Strikethrough 2007 did, it's that it made a lot of us aware of you.

One little question I have is whether it's possible for IJ to acquire the 3-column stylesheet. That particular stylesheet is very popular with a lot of RPers, and I haven't been able to quite duplicate its features with any of the available styles here. I'll totally understand if that's not an option, but I'd love it if it is. :)

Unfortunatly that style is closed source and not part of the free distrobution. I'd make something similar to it, but I am more of a programmer than a designer. If you know anyone that is good for design, I am more than willing to barter for services.

I've made myself a custom layer that replicates most of its features, after doing a little bit of research. Is there any way to make it available to other users?

Possibly. Right now I really don't have the time to research it. But I will put it on my todo list and get back to you.

No problem. Thank you. :)

No, thank you, too. Looks awesome!

You're very welcome. :D!

Oooohhhhhh, pretty!

I like the Opal set, but it would be great if I could get Big Derek's journal looking back like it should. *g*

I just emailed you something that should help with that. :)

Hee!

(the shinies...they et my braaaiiiiinnnnssss)

Hey, I never got your email, what address did you send it to?

Oh, sorry about that! I sent it to Derek... I'll forward you a copy, too. It's the 3-column layout and instructions for how to install and customize it.

Much welcome. Looking forward to some good years, and getting my other two journals perms once I get the money up for them.

I'll probably get a creative journal at some point too, when I have a job. I decided last night it was the right choice when I read this post researching the contents of the journals and communities still suspended on livejournal (including a survivor journal) and mentioning another community that was suspended without warning a couple of days ago. I can't be bothered dealing with that crap, there's so much less drama over here.

I hope it stays that way. We've had our moment of drama but noting to the level that LJ is experiencing right now.

Yeah, it's cool that we don't have to worry about that sort of thing here. It's much more personal. Hell, I still haven't heard back from GJ Support about their policies, and it's been nearly a week since I asked? I wouldn't even have a clue who's staff there, or if they even pay attention to the site.

And we'd like to thank you, for being here as a very nice new home.

(Also for having a very cool name... insanity suits a lot of us!)

Made the move from LiveJournal and very glad I did! I like the community feel at this journal site -- crazy is good. ^__^

Thanks, I'm glad you like it here.

Quite welcome, Squeaky. I'm a transplant from SixApart's LiveJournal site. After 4+ years of being a paid member there, I got tired of watching a repeating pattern of leaping-before-looking + user-backlash + damage-control from the corporate end.

I figured my dollars could go to support a different group of people trying to run a good journal site, and ended up here after looking at a few, and evaluating things like look-and-feel, response time from the server, etc...

Maybe I'll be able to bring a few good users along, and maybe some of those will also buy permanent accounts. :-)

That would be great! We really do need and appreciate every single paid account that we get.

I would like to thank you, squeaky for giving me (and my typist - who will also be getting a permanently insane account for herself next paycheque) a comfortable home where I can enjoy my unlife and not worry about my journal being disappeared. If I were the type to squee (as my typist is) I would *squee* over the wonderful journal style she was able to create for me here.

May the nights be kind to you, always.

Isabel

I haven't quite figured out how to post a new topic to the asylums yet.
[but I will]...

Now, I was thinking an icon that connects to insane journal's join up page that we can put on our other blogs in order to get folks in.

The orange happy face with a "join insane journal" perhaps that those of us who blog in other places can use to promo.

spike

When you go to insanejournal.com/update.bml there should be a drop down box at the bottom that shows all the asylums you are a member of. You can also go to the profile page of each asylum and click the pencil icon at the top to post to that asylum.

Found it, thanks.
I love Insane Journal.
spike

It's my first day here on IJ, and I have felt nothing but comfortable and welcome here. I've been on LJ for three and a half years, and I have been looking for a new "online home" in case things become too Orwellian there in the name of corporate greed. I believe I have found that new online home in IJ... so much so that I've already purchased a permanent account.

Thank you so very much for all of your hard work and for the welcoming, homey vibe you have here.

Thanks for supporting the site. We really appreciate it. We also hope we will remain your online home for a long time!

I have purchased two permanent accounts and will be buying one more for a community.

I'm very happy with InsaneJournal. Thank you for being here!

Thanks a ton!! We really do love each and every one of you who show how much you enjoy the work and time we put into running this place.

This is old, but I just purchased a Permanently Insane account for my private journal, since it's the best place to update about whatever I want. I love this website. You do so much for us and really care. It's very refreshing. I'm eager to see how everything goes in the future! It's nice to be apart of it. :)

Thanks for supporting us, we really do appreciate it.

I'm finally permanently insane :)

Thank you for running such an awesome site and being so responsive to your userbase.

You're welcome. I'm really thanksful to all of you who have purchased an account.

i havn't brought myself to buy a perm at lj even though i'm a member there since 2002 but here, i bought one instantly. just because the deal is way better than ant LJ. i hope this site grows soon :)

the only thing i'm missing over here is Flexible Squares layout *sigh*

Yeah,

Unfortunately 6A owns the rights to that layout and haven't release it publicly.

I have to admit, I liked my personal thank you. It was a nice touch, and made me feel very welcome and comfortable here.

But mass thank-yous are good too, and leave you with more time to make this great place better and better.

I love it here. ^_^

You are welcome! I love this site since I have moved over! :)

Thank you for all the communication you give to the members. It's a huge change from GJ.

Y9ou're very welcome

I'm really impressed with the administration on IJ. Thank you!

Hi there,

I've had my account here for about a year, but didn't update all that often. My main place is either LJ or GJ. Well since GJ is taking a serious nosedive it was time to move away from there. Luckily most friends went to LJ. But then I noticed quite a few listing their IJ. So back here I came and have been updating quite often. Found some cool friends here and joined a few communities.

I'm loving this place more and more each day. Thanks for all the work that goes into maintaining and running a place like this. Infact in the past 24 hours I renamed my account to my fav. user name. And then just today I purchased a permanently insane account. Things like that aren't very affordable elsewhere, but thanks you to they are here.

With the rapidly-multiplying servers, is there any chance of some sort of paid-user speedup? I have a vague recollection of LJ claiming something about paid users getting faster access and I think that there's some tool that facilitates prioritizing certain requests over others in the set of things that came out of LJ (among the tools like memcached and BML). I'm really more curious than anything, since the site always seems plenty fast to me.

We don't quite have the setup to handle that. We are on leased servers, and I woudl need my own rack of servers and more efficient load balancers and stuff to handle that.

yeah, i'm not surprised. i just thought somehow that i'd read that some piece of code that the old LJ people had hacked made it simpler, but that was probably wishful thinking.

thanks.

After what happened at GJ I am so thankful that you care enough to keep this site running so well! It's just awesome and like so many before me have said, buying a Permanently Insane account is the least I can do.