Update: Seed Account Re-sale, Free Users + Custom Styles

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Two things for you today!


Thing the first:

We have not been able to finish and fully test the new site functionality that enables people to purchase accounts without a PayPal account. Instead of finishing it up an hour before the first sale is scheduled and crossing our fingers that it works, we've decided to push the sale off another week.

The new time of the Seed Account re-sale is Thursday, May 14th, 9PM EDT and again at Friday, May 15th, 9AM EDT. In total 200 accounts will be available.


Thing the second:

People with free accounts have probably noticed that a few days ago we took away the Advanced Customization area of the site. (The pages that let you make a custom style.) We had never intended for it to be available unless you paid, and having it on was an oversight on our part. After we turned it off, we got to hear a lot of really good comments from people and we reevaluated the original decision.

We've turned it back on, but gave free users a pretty low limit on the number of styles you can create (1 custom style, up to 5 layers). Short story: you can once again go back to customizing and importing styles from other sites. Sorry for the trouble!

Comments

[nandamai]

Not related to this post, but this is as good a place to post it as anywhere: thank you for making the Expand Comments feature actually work in Safari. I'm sure I'm not the only Mac user who appreciates it.

[denise]

That was one of the first bugs that I demanded we fix, and now that we've had a week of not getting bitten by the bug, it looks like our fix (which was kind of a shot in the dark) actually did resolve the problem! (I've actually even requested that the patch be taken upstream at LJ, because I run into that problem on LJ about ten times a week.)