Another LJ FAIL

[lavendertook]

LJ has just abolished a user's ability to create a new basic account.

If you already have a basic account, you can keep basic, but any new unpaid account will now be host to advertisements; i.e., a Plus account. And I assume that means if your paid account established before today lapses, it will return to basic, but that's a big assumption at this point. And the loveliest part is LJ has not announced this.

Does anyone know what this clause under basic accounts means:

* 25 subscriptions for notification of new posts, friends, comments, or events?

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[scholarist.livejournal.com]

A subscription means that a notification is sent to your message box whenever a certain event happens, such as someone updating their journal or a new post to a community I like to follow. The easiest way to do that is to press the thumbtack button that you see at the top of your user profile or wherever. That sends you to the message settings center where you can set what kind of notification you wish and also whether you want an email notification. Basic users get 25 of these and I can see how you'd use those up quickly. Paid users get a thousand, I think.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've never used those functions.