I have a year left on my paid account on LJ. I have been on it a LONG time. I am getting sick of the way they are treating people. I have paid for my account as long as I have had it and this is stupid. I pay for it so people can have free accounts with no ads so when I go read their pages when I am not logged in, I don't have to read the ads either! I like the icons, but I don't need them. I use only a couple usually anyway. I am getting really frustrated that they are breaking away from their core concept so much. If I didn't already have so much time and effort invested in this journal, I would have walked away long ago.