Drinking Game

Welcome to the Renew Your Account Drinking Game for LiveJournal Malcontents!

Take a drink:


 * for every CSS or GreaseMonkey hack you've installed to make the site bearable


 * if the introduction of voice posts ruined your custom style


 * if the introduction of videos gave you some error and you couldn't use image placeholders when all your friends were first trying the new feature out, rendering checking your Friends Page a total pain. Or if you just don't like video posting.


 * if the NavStrip's inability to be turned off sitewide ruined your mobile browsing or your sense of aesthetics


 * take a drink for every feature LiveJournal's implemented since you've joined the site that you've hated


 * if you hate Horizon and the way it's replaced XColibur and Dystopia (which will no longer be updated) makes you a bit weepy, take three drinks.


 * for every personally questionable ad you've seen (hi WuLong! Why, hello American Apparel boobies and Amp'd Mobile!).  Ads that you think are questionable in principle to others but not to you don't count.  Those people will have to drink their own drinks.  Don't cheat and drink for them.


 * for every Plus nag you've seen as a Basic user. If you're a Paid or Permanent user and have seen Plus nags due to the icon-loading or other bugs present or past, take THREE drinks.


 * for every time you've been motivated enough to complain to feedback@livejournal.com


 * for every time you've asked a question in LiveJournal Support after reading the FAQ, and the first answer you got was to read the FAQ, even though you mentioned you read the FAQ


 * for every time your style has reverted to Generator or another style due to elusive style bugs


 * for every complaint you've made in a news post


 * for every statement from the staff or media, on LJ or off (hi Clickz.com!), that made you go WTF


 * if you survived the Great LJ Blackout of 2005, Great LJ Blackout of 2006, or Great LJ DDoS of 2006!


 * if you went through the period of unreliable memories


 * for every time period over the past year you ended up without comment notifiations and it wasn't your fault


 * if you ever use the LJ site search, one drink for every ten seconds it takes to load a search page with all of the icons on it (probably about 40 on broadband internet, so chances are you're looking at 4 drinks)


 * if you use the S1 style system


 * if you use the S1 style system and secretly believe in your heart that it will be killed off and everyone forced to use S2


 * if you tried to learn how to use the S2 style system and were stymied by the utterly deplorable state of its documentation


 * if you're a Paid or Permanent user who has a Basic account or two and gets to see ads while on them


 * if you're a Paid or Permanent user who resents how Sponsored Features were originally going to be branded even for you, and still smolders when running into links to Amp'd Mobile's stuff in places like the FAQ about TxtLJ


 * if you hate how ESN made replying to a screened comment and rescreening them both afterwards easily trackable


 * if you believe the automatic addition of your LJTalk ID (without mangling) on the user page if you had other contact information up led you to receive more spam


 * if the changes to the site CSS made your ad blocker break LJ's site scheme


 * if you hate how Sponsored Communities get to use third party tracking tools like Google Analytics and you're still stuck using web bugs for seeing hits to your LJ


 * if you don't see why the heck 7daysinasentra got to put a web bug on the front page of LJ


 * if you're convinced that Six Apart thinks LiveJournal is only for teenagers and everyone past their twenties will be shipped off to Vox in cattle cars, drink as much as you want, since you're an adult and nobody can stop you!


 * if you were convinced that Six Apart would add ads when they bought out LiveJournal despite all assurances, you were totally right. Take four drinks as a reward and keep on honing your paranoia.


 * if you're a Russian LJ user who hates the licensing of the LiveJournal brand to SUP, just keep on drinking and don't stop


 * if you have your own webhosting and the technical know-how to run your own blog software, such as WordPress, and escape your LJ problems by exchanging them for new ones

Congratulations! You should now be drunk enough to pull out your credit card to renew your Paid account, or upgrade to Paid.