I’ve been thinking of starting a Live Journal and I know that several regular posters, here, have Live Journal accounts. I have a couple of questions.
[ul]I have seen requests for Live Journal codes (?) on the boards previously, but apparently Live Journal is accepting new accounts without the code. Is this new or do you get some benefit from receiving a code from an existing user?
Do most of you have a paid account (or just a free account) and is there a significant benefit from paying the $12.00/year for the upgraded account?
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Well, that’s it, I guess. Thanks for any responses.
LJ got rid of its invite code system on December 12th, so that no one needs an invite code to start a journal. IIRC, invite codes were originally introduced to prevent abuse, since a lot of people started up journals solely to harass other users.
Since there are no codes anymore, you can’t give them out; ergo, there are no benefits for getting a code from an existing user.
I have a paid account (my LJ name is “auster”, in case anyone’s interested, but I only talk about Harry Potter, Johnny Depp and slash fiction :D), and I got it mostly because I wanted to create my own custom layout (and my LJ looks very pretty now).
It’s $25 a year, by the way, but I thought it was worth it. Paid users can do a lot of things free users can’t, and there’s a nice FAQ on the subject (yes, referencing a FAQ is compulsory to me – I do LJ support).
Most people seem perfectly happy with a free account, although a lot of my friends upgraded because paid users can buy extra user pictures. Free users can only have three; paid users get fifteen with the option to upgrade to fifty.
Live journal used to have codes, but they scrapped it and now you don’t need a code. I don’t believe there’s benefit from having a code. In fact, I don’t think they ask you for it when you sign up.
I have a free acount. From what I understand, people with paid accounts get more options. They get to update from their cellphones, have more user pictures, able to do advanced searches. These are the ones I know about, but someone with a paid account could fill you in. If you don’t need any of those, say you just want to use it as an outlet for your daily musings, a free account is just as good.