"Otherwise, opt-in really means "opting all your friends in to see ads on your journal entries"."
Yeah thats the part I didn't like. Then even more users will go 'well, i have to see ads on my friends pages anyway and those suck, so I might as well see ads everywhere,' then sign up for sponsored+ and make LJ more advertising money.
Despite the promises that more money = more staff = better features? I don't see it happening. LJ is too disorganized for that to happen. How many features have been broken for eons upon eons? And how many new "features" could the actual users give two shits about, whereas things that are in 'suggestions' are getting ignored.
I think mostly I feel like LJ was a place for USERS and with every move recently (6A and now ads) that its being taken away from users and made more corporate and stinky.
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Yeah thats the part I didn't like. Then even more users will go 'well, i have to see ads on my friends pages anyway and those suck, so I might as well see ads everywhere,' then sign up for sponsored+ and make LJ more advertising money.
Despite the promises that more money = more staff = better features? I don't see it happening. LJ is too disorganized for that to happen. How many features have been broken for eons upon eons? And how many new "features" could the actual users give two shits about, whereas things that are in 'suggestions' are getting ignored.
I think mostly I feel like LJ was a place for USERS and with every move recently (6A and now ads) that its being taken away from users and made more corporate and stinky.