The surf is great at IJ!

[lavendertook]

"May?" We MAY criticize you? You damn well got that right, you mealy-mouthed fuckers. Yeah, LJstaff's really pissed me off this time, and it's migration time.

I've heard nothing but good things about Squeaky's handling of IJ, and with 100 icons for an unpaid account, their welcoming of fandom, and no bullshit, I can put up with the ads there and the stupid asylum theme. strangemuses says IJ took to the influx of thousands of GJ refugees without a hitch, so they're definitely doing something right thus far.

The only thing keeping me on LJ now is ya'll. The more of you I can woo over to IJ with me over time, the better. I guess I'll be double posting for the foreseeable future, but I'd love to move my main base over there now. Got to dig up my bookmarks for migrating tools and get my IJ running. Yay 100 icons again!

I just hate generating revenue for folks who do business like LJ is doing, and yes, we are generating revenue for them, even with basic accounts, by creating community. Even this post is helping them with that. I'd just like to see IJ overtake them. And if not Insanejournal, than another text-based networking site catering to epistolatory-types, but right now, IJ looks like the best bet.

Comments

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

How you make your money and how you treat your customers does make a difference--I don't know if you've been following the news posts and have seen how they have handled all this. But as far as a business decision goes, getting rid of basic accounts is not a good one--not just because this is a social networking business and the sense of community is what makes it run, but because basic accounts are one of the things that LJ had to offer that distinguished it from other services, so in the sense of getting rid of one of its assets, it's a bad move. And as Brad, the founder of LJ explains, basic accounts create revenue that bring in more users.

But yeah, mileage varies on how you feel about seeing ads, and I just got an adblock program that does much to solve that problem for me, but I hate doing business with people who try to sneak stuff past me and treat me without respect, and this has been an ongoing problem since 6A took over LJ and has continued with SUP, which is why I'm looking at IJ as a better community service.