conuly | Huh.

Link to the permanent thingy page?

It's in

news. They're not on sale yet, so you can't buy yourself an end-of-year present.

They've raised the user picture limit for permanent accounts to 100.

Where'd you see that?

Update: In light of all of the feedback regarding the permanent account sale, we will be raising the user picture limit to 100 for all permanent accounts.

I don't want 100 pictures...I had trouble filling 50. Now, if they made it so that you could upload mood icons to LJ (scrapbook doesn't count; it's an unwieldy system with illogical filenames), or enabled FTP upload of images, I'd be a lot happier. Oh, and the ability to make unlimited styles. I think it stops you making more than 10 or 15. I'd trade a userpicture slot for a style slot :)

FTP?

You get a client program, a username and a password, and then you can upload a lot of images at once. Advantages over the Scrapbook interface include the fact that it wouldn't have horrible preview images, the files keep their own names (try doing a mood theme when all the files are called a string of random letters and numbers) and it's much faster than uploading images individually, since you can just shift-click and select a lot of images.

Why wouldn't it have horrible preview images?

Because you don't get preview images :) scrapbook's ones are badly compressed.

This is what the client I use looks like:
http://www.smartftp.com/screenshots.php

Ah. That makes sense :)

You should suggest some of this, really. Like the idea of being able to pay to create more styles (though that's never been where my interests are), or the FTP thing.

I'd love unlimited styles too, and no limit on layers (I think I'm five away, thanks to making layers for the stylecontest and also having a lot of testing stuff there). There is a hacky way to increase the style limit, though (which you may well know, but I'll explain it just in case).

Using the wizard with a layout creates a new style, which counts towards the style limit if you try to create a new style, but which can be generated after the limit has been exceeded. So you can switch to Clean and Simple, for example, through Customize (http://www.livejournal.com/customize/), and it'll generate a wizard style on the Custom Style page for that layout.

You can then edit that custom style in any way (rename it, change the layout to another layout, etc). If you switch to Clean and Simple again, it'll create another of those wizard styles, again modifiable. And so on.

Yeah, I noticed that by accident this weekend as I started playing with the new system styles :) Say, if you use the simple customisation wizard when you've no more layer space left, does that work the same way, since it creates a new layer? What is the layer limit, anyway? I have no idea how close I am to that.

Jeez. How mean! Now it almost is worth it.

Hmm .. my birthday is coming up ... only eighteen days away, in fact. I wonder if I'll feel guilty later if I ask my rich and generous friend K. to buy me a permanent account for my birthday. He has, after all, been paying for LJ for years now. Hmm.

Curse you, livejournal, for putting me in such a moral dilemma!

Ask him to help you pay as your combined birthday/cristmas present.

I think you're one of the very few people that actually NEED a permanent account. I'll see what I can do or maybe I might feel generous. Keep up the LJing.

No, really, I don't. I want one, yes, but even I, with my immersion-in-all-things-online will stop short of saying I need anything online.

Though it's very sweet of you to offer, of course, and I'd be thrilled to get a permanent account - even from somebody I'm pretty sure I don't know.

I would only buy one if they other things like tweaking your journal bling bling style or something like that. Forget the pictures.

They've raised the user picture limit for permanent accounts to 100.

*gasp* Dude! Rock. :)

*grins*

I wish I had that attitude. Instead it's "oh damn". Wait, you read my post. Nevermind.