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Update: Seed Account Re-sale, Free Users + Custom Styles
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!
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!
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Had a meeting this evening, bunch of prominent party bloggers talking crap. Spent a good ten minutes talking through why LJ (and now DW) is so much better than Blogger and merely different to the other prominent platforms.
Other things I'd like in my "proper blogging" wishlist would be aggregator pinging (maybe a deal with automattic, they ping everywhere for you if you've got a WP install), and sidebar widget embeds for things like Twitter and Delicious. Easy incoming links tracking is good service, not pingbacks, pointless, but technorati/icerocket stuff, etc.
Styled profile/about pages would also be fairly essential—in fact, static pages generally would be good.
But like you said, wishlist for down the line.
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Having said that, manually pinging everywhere is better than not pinging at all, that's something I missed existing, danke.
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This would rock like a big rocking thing.