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[channonyarrow]

Wow.

So, I logged out of this account to do something else. Then I forgot that I'd done that, looked at my flist, and clicked on a three-word-entry that I wanted to read the comments on.

NOW I know why I pay for an account. When the ads are larger than the frigging entry? Yeah, that's bad. Of course, the ad would have been larger than the entry unless the entry had been a 20K-word polemic on Kant, honestly. Is it new that they put an ad bar IN the entries of Plus accounts, between the body of the entry and the comments? I hadn't thought that was something they were going to do, but then again, I'm paid.

Now I wonder why ANYONE signs up for an LJ if that's the sort of shit they see when they log in with a free account or just go directly to the page with no account

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[mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com]

the thing I don't get is what the real advantage is of a plus account. I mean, more icons and layout possibilities? is that really worth it?

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Well, it is to me (I have paid, as mentioned) because I like designing layouts and there are a LOT of things that aren't possible with a free account. Also, icons have really become part of my "vocabulary", and I promise that whenever an icon selection LOOKS random, particularly in comments, it's been carefully chosen on the basis of something that is probably not instantly obvious (oddly, no one's ever asked me why I picked a specific icon). So having a hundred and fifteen icons is something I use, though I don't know how often I use specific ones any more - they do tend to trend through use patterns.

But I suspect that the Plus accounts are crippled in terms of what I get as a Paid, so I don't know off the top of my head whether they have the true flexibility with design (and I do use flexibility loosely; if you ever want to spend four solid days swearing at the computer, try designing a Paid LJ layout - the one I'm using still isn't right, but I'm not interested in tweaking it further right now) or how many icons they get.