Paid Time Reimbursement

Throughout the history of LiveJournal, free time has been added to Paid accounts when an event has disrupted service for extended periods of time.


 * 2001-07-31: "Server hell" (+10 days; announcement )
 * 2001-08-26: Unhappy databases (+10 days; announcement )
 * 2004-06-30: Great LJ DDoS of 2004 (+2 months/+14 days; first and second announcements)
 * 2004-07-10: Chef8 maintenance (+1 month; announcement )
 * 2005-01-17: Great LJ Blackout of 2005 (+14 days; announcement )
 * 2006-11-13: Great LJ Blackout of 2006 (+7 days; announcement )
 * 2007-07-24: Great LJ Brownout of 2007 (+3 days; announcement )

Since this is the case, if you are a Permanent Account-holder, you may have between three days and 4.6 months of paid time in addition to your initial &infin; days.