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About Paid Accounts
I have to pay to use LiveJournal?
No, of course not. Paying for web services is annoying, we agree.
That's why nearly all of LiveJournal's functionality is available free of charge.
However, if you're happy with the service you're being provided, show your support and get a paid account.
It takes money to run websites (for servers, colocation, and bandwidth), and this seems like a
better way to pay for it than blasting you with pop-up banner ads and spamming you with advertisements. Well, how much does it cost?
The rates are as follows:
That works out to a little over $2/month for the year plan.
That'll hardly break your pocketbook.
The most annoying part will likely be pulling out your wallet, finding your credit card, and typing in your information.
So what cool features will I get?
- LiveJournal.com email address --- All mail to your_username@livejournal.com will be forwarded to your personal email address.
You can then choose to show none, either, or both of your email addresses, depending on what you want to expose.
- Personalized domain name --- Instead of having your journal at http://www.livejournal.com/users/your_username/,
it'll also be available at http://your_username.livejournal.com/, much shorter and more personal.
- Fast Server Access --- Paid users automatically hit a group of really fast servers when they access any part of the site,
instead of the normal servers which we try to keep moderately fast, but not as insanely fast as the paid user servers.
- Customize your journal --- In addition to just being able to pick the style of your journal and the colors,
you'll also be able to create your own style using whatever HTML you like.
This will also let you be able to make new styles that match your website that you can then easily embed,
never revealing that you're using LiveJournal.com as your journal mechanism.
- Text Messaging --- If you have a pager or cellphone, you can get text messages (or numeric messages) right from LiveJournal.
You can set it to allow all users, registered users, or only your friends to page you.
This is especially useful if you don't want to expose your cell number to everybody, but want to be able to get messages on it.
Combined with the "friends only" option, it's just really cool.
- Multiple user pictures --- You're able to upload up to 10 pictures of yourself, and choose which one to use on each entry, in addition to your current mood/music, etc.
So, say you're feeling angry: in addition to the angry mood & icon, you can also choose to use your angry picture,
which will then show up on everybody's journal that lists you as a friend for that one particular angry entry.
- Automatic Poll/Survey/Booths --- You can quickly and easily make voting polls and full surveys inside your journal entries, embedded right within your text.
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