They're doing it (wrong) again (or not?)

[triadruid]

Courtesy of matchgirl42, here's a head's up on another change to the way LJ works:

According to her, http://www.livejournal.com/manage/comments/ no longer allows Basic Accounts to receive email notifications of comments. That would well and truly suck, if true. I'm still paid for another half-year, can somebody else confirm?

::edit:: According to comments below, this may be just a case of transient error, not nefarious purposes. *shrug* Hard to say...

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Comment arrived via email, as anticipated. I don't think it's Evil LJ Overlords this time.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Freakin' WIERD. That's what I say.

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned below, sometimes LJ has periods of comment epilepsy. Some comments might go through right then, but others could take hours or even days to make it to your inbox. I have no idea what causes it, so I blame the dingoes.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just my server/sector, then.

I still don't like losing email notifications of the comments I make, though.

^{Have I mentioned I'm a bit of a control freak?}

from one control freak to another

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Emailed comment notification drives me fecking NUTS. I hate it with a seething passion, and have it disabled.

In my case, I control how much LJ interferes with my life, my attention, and the clutter in my email. :)

Re: from one control freak to another

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*nods* I can totally see that.

I, on the other hand, want to see my comments. Because I want to read them over again 5-10 minutes later, for editing purposes.

Of course, I've also lost the editing capability with the move to a basic account...but I could still *append* in another comment...

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

I do believe that notifications of comments *I* make would drive me nuts. However, if I did not get comment notifications from other people, I'd never keep up with any responses I get in other peoples' journals.