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Would you be inconvenienced if I moved this journal mostly or entirely to Dreamwidth? Mostly would be cross-posting, but comments only on the DW side; entirely would be nothing posted to LJ except brief link posts, pointing to that week's posts on DW.
LiveJournal is once again inserting redirects and affiliate links on most outbound links. Apparently this round is better coded, and is no longer stripping existing links. But it seems that they are doing this to all accounts: and one of the reasons I've been paying for my account there is to avoid advertising. (I don't love that they have ads, but it's one thing to have that as the tradeoff, and another to have them dropping in links even on paid accounts.)
Part of the annoyance is that they haven't announced this: they could perfectly well have put it in a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news post, as "in order to help pay for the servers, we're doing X, here's the code if you want to opt out."
Instead, they waited for people to stumble across it, and when someone asked in the comments on the most recent news post, claimed that it was "transparent." As another user pointed out, if you're being transparent, you announce things, you don't wait for the users to stumble on them.
Mechanics: if I did move everything to DW, you could either comment using OpenID, pay a few dollars to start an account on Dreamwidth (it will revert to free when the paid time expires), or look on the![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_codesharing community on Dreamwidth or the dreamwidth community on LJ for an invite code.
If you want to move over and money is tight, talk to me: I have a couple of invite codes.
LiveJournal is once again inserting redirects and affiliate links on most outbound links. Apparently this round is better coded, and is no longer stripping existing links. But it seems that they are doing this to all accounts: and one of the reasons I've been paying for my account there is to avoid advertising. (I don't love that they have ads, but it's one thing to have that as the tradeoff, and another to have them dropping in links even on paid accounts.)
Part of the annoyance is that they haven't announced this: they could perfectly well have put it in a
news post, as "in order to help pay for the servers, we're doing X, here's the code if you want to opt out."Instead, they waited for people to stumble across it, and when someone asked in the comments on the most recent news post, claimed that it was "transparent." As another user pointed out, if you're being transparent, you announce things, you don't wait for the users to stumble on them.
Mechanics: if I did move everything to DW, you could either comment using OpenID, pay a few dollars to start an account on Dreamwidth (it will revert to free when the paid time expires), or look on the
dw_codesharing community on Dreamwidth or the dreamwidth community on LJ for an invite code. If you want to move over and money is tight, talk to me: I have a couple of invite codes.
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Also, yes, the post explains the opt-out. It also notes that LJ has done as little as possible to tell anyone about the opt-out, or about why we might need or want it. I don't much like the idea that ad-free status is, not a benefit of paid accounts, but something limited to the more technically savvy user who also makes a point of following communities that point out what LJ is doing now and not telling us about.