Should I give Six Apart more of my money?

[matgb]

OK, it's that time of year. My paid LJ account expires in 12 days. I like livejournal, I like the community, I like the functions, I like the filtering and the privacy options.

I strongly dislike the management and owners, who, it seems, don't actually like Livejournal, and most certainly don't "get" it. So, should I give them more of my hard earned? Should I switch back to Sponsored? Should I go all FreeBasic?

I'm tempted to pay for a 3 month renewal, but, well, I'm not at all sure. It's the old ethical market consumer in me, I don't like giving money to companies I disapprove of. But I really love the product. Opinions?

Oh, Circus types and a few others would probably be very interested in this post on livejournal_uk...

Comments

[recursived.livejournal.com]

Aside from icons and polls, I don't see what the advantage of a paid account is anyway (self interest declaration: apart from subsidising all us free-loaders)?

[matgb]

Syndication feeds, more layout choices, setting up syndication feeds, more storage space in scrapbook (I don't use it muc, but the option is useful for when I do), syndication feeds, never (ever) seeing any of the annoying adverts and, well, did I mention setting up syndication feeds?

[vodex.livejournal.com]

You seem to know loads about LJ feeds - is there some sort of aggregation/searching/intelligence tool so I don't end up trawling through a feeds freinds page of 300 entries? I doubt it, but you never know...

[matgb]

How d'you mean?

I set up a lot of filters and read them in different groups (see links to the right under Interesting).

But to find if a feed already exists, only way to do it is try to set it up.