I do want to point out that we never promised we wouldn't have another seed account sale -- the exact thing we said (after explaining the pros and cons of permanent accounts) was:

Because we're building Dreamwidth with an eye towards long-term sustainability, we don't plan on offering permanent accounts for sale except once, at site launch, to build our initial operating fund. Circumstances may change down the road and make selling permanent accounts a more attractive option, but we highly doubt it.

So, our argument for another seed account sale: we've been forced (by circumstances outside our control) to dip into the operating fund, and replenishing that operating fund would be a real benefit. Our argument against: all the arguments for not selling too many permanent accounts (as set forth in that link) still hold: we don't want to oversell them and cause shortfalls in the future (which is more an argument against having them on sale regularly -- any sale we'd do would be limited, like the first one), and we don't want to set up a situation where people in the future feel like we're not paying attention to their concerns because we already have their money 'in the bank', so to speak. (Which we obviously hope that we'll never run into, no matter what we do, but still!)

I'm not trying to change your mind or invalidate your opinion (and I do think that in the minds of many, it has been perceived as a promise, which is why we're particularly hesitant), but I did want to point out that we didn't actually say "we will never sell seed accounts again" -- we always said "we don't plan on selling seed accounts again, and here's why, and we doubt this will change". And, given a normal course of operations, things wouldn't have changed -- if we'd proceeded on with our previous rate of growth and corresponding rate of paid-accountness, we'd probably be breaking even month-to-month by now as well as for the year.