I'm not sure if I understand you right, but permanent account holders only serve ads on their profile pages, isn't that so? I've got two accounts here, one of which is a permie (this one isn't). The account which I bought for my friend also doesn't reflect this tendency. Might I ask where you saw it?
Actually, if the account holder has the custom comments page style turned off, their journal entry pages are served up in the default style, which includes the ads, regardless of their account status. I tried this out on![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
liz_marcs' journal while logged out, picked a random post and saw the ads.
While I do agree that not having the hike will be nice, like many people I feel that the price is reasonable. It's only because I've been here for a while (like more than a year) that I feel a little irritated with the hike (because it means that I'm paying more).
I don't really care about the pricing (which I think is reasonable to increase if they need to cover the server costs or even just plain feel like it) so much as the timing and the way it was presented. I was wondering “Feedback from who, what, when, where? Did I miss an earlier announcement/request for comment?”.
I haven't been here long, so it seems a bit like they're trying to get any upcoming new users to rush to buy a permanent almost right after signup and sort of justifying it by saying “we asked around and people said that's what they wanted” (which, to be fair, it looks like they do), only without having asked in a more public place where a wider range of users could have given their opinions and they'd have gotten a better sample size of what people really wanted before presenting these things as fait accompli.
I don't know; it just feels like a kind of LJ-ish tactic and that's a turn-off for me.
Actually, if the account holder has the custom comments page style turned off, their journal entry pages are served up in the default style, which includes the ads, regardless of their account status. I tried this out on
liz_marcs' journal while logged out, picked a random post and saw the ads.While I do agree that not having the hike will be nice, like many people I feel that the price is reasonable. It's only because I've been here for a while (like more than a year) that I feel a little irritated with the hike (because it means that I'm paying more).
I don't really care about the pricing (which I think is reasonable to increase if they need to cover the server costs or even just plain feel like it) so much as the timing and the way it was presented. I was wondering “Feedback from who, what, when, where? Did I miss an earlier announcement/request for comment?”.
I haven't been here long, so it seems a bit like they're trying to get any upcoming new users to rush to buy a permanent almost right after signup and sort of justifying it by saying “we asked around and people said that's what they wanted” (which, to be fair, it looks like they do), only without having asked in a more public place where a wider range of users could have given their opinions and they'd have gotten a better sample size of what people really wanted before presenting these things as fait accompli.
I don't know; it just feels like a kind of LJ-ish tactic and that's a turn-off for me.