Livejournal no longer offers Basic Accounts.

Fair enough, it is a good commercial move.

Idiotic, because once more LJ did not notify their users, then again they didn’t lose that much business over the last SNAFU so I don’t see why they have to worry this time around.

I have nothing to worry about (yet) since I have a permanent account but I wonder what will become of annual fic-remixes and other fic competitions. This ought to make the fandom geography more interesting.