A sort-of sidebar comment on keeping paid accounts, is that LJ got too money-grabbing for my taste and didn't "sell the sizzle not the sausage" as the saying goes. I'd been a paid-up member for many years until just recently and, thoughout the period leading up to the termination of the paid account* they sent many emails asking (may demanding!) that I stay as paid with the text basically being "here are the methods you can use to pay us". Not once did they actually list what I would lose by not being paid status, nor even provide a link to an account comparison page, which - once I actually found out some things I hadn't realised were part of the paid status stuff would likely have got cash out of me to stay at paid status. Once I was a 'free' account though and had lost these I wasn't inclined to restart those options, so muy money has stayed lost from them,


* which means money for DW, obviously!