Paid users will have the "jump the server queue" thing here, too, and there'll be some styles and themes that are only available to paid users, and there are a bunch of other little tiny paid user features, but the overwhelming #1 reason people paid for their accounts on LJ was more icons. (Well, until ads came along.)
When we were designing our account levels, we erred on the side of giving more things to free users in a bunch of places, because we thought they were silly to have as paid features or because they were part of what we wanted to include in the site culture (for instance, all users can create syndicated feeds, because we want to be really interoperable with other sites). We do have one paid user feature that LJ doesn't -- Google Analytics integration -- that isn't on the comparison on the Wiki yet (but will be on the site by open beta launch), and many of the features we develop in our first year will be paid account features or significantly enhanced for paid users. But for the first few months at least, the major reasons to pay for an account will be to support the project and icons.
(Photo hosting -- we don't have it yet, but we're hoping to get it done by the end of this year or around the beginning of next year. LiveJournal's photo hosting is both an administrative and usability nightmare.)
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Paid users will have the "jump the server queue" thing here, too, and there'll be some styles and themes that are only available to paid users, and there are a bunch of other little tiny paid user features, but the overwhelming #1 reason people paid for their accounts on LJ was more icons. (Well, until ads came along.)
When we were designing our account levels, we erred on the side of giving more things to free users in a bunch of places, because we thought they were silly to have as paid features or because they were part of what we wanted to include in the site culture (for instance, all users can create syndicated feeds, because we want to be really interoperable with other sites). We do have one paid user feature that LJ doesn't -- Google Analytics integration -- that isn't on the comparison on the Wiki yet (but will be on the site by open beta launch), and many of the features we develop in our first year will be paid account features or significantly enhanced for paid users. But for the first few months at least, the major reasons to pay for an account will be to support the project and icons.
(Photo hosting -- we don't have it yet, but we're hoping to get it done by the end of this year or around the beginning of next year. LiveJournal's photo hosting is both an administrative and usability nightmare.)