InsaneJournal Announcements

I don't know; it just feels like a kind of LJ-ish tactic and that's a turn-off for me.

An LJ-ish tactic would be to delete your account without warning. XD

Seriously though, did you know that LJ had begun collecting information about users' searches on the site and never made an announcement in news about it? In order to opt out, you had to stumble upon the old announcement in lj_biz.

Before Strikethrough happened, I was going to buy three permanent accounts on LJ. After Strikethrough though, I came here instead and bought fifteen. Not sure if you've ever checked prices, but running a site is damn expensive, especially one this size.

Of the sites that use the Danga software (LJ-type platform), IJ is the ONLY such site that has free accounts AND has a VERY responsive owner and support staff.

GJ might have free accounts, but there's no way to buy a paid account there. Don't use your account? They'll start trimming your icons out. Have an icon they decide is too revealing? Permanently suspended account. LostJournal, DeadJournal, and JournalFen ALL require either a code to join or for you to pay up front. There's Blurty, but I'm not very impressed by it.

I still think IJ is the best of them all.