InsaneJournal

I have to pay to use InsaneJournal? That's stupid!

No, of course not. Paying for web services is annoying, we agree. That's why nearly all of InsaneJournal's functionality is available free of charge. However, if you're happy with the service you're being provided, show your support and purchase a Self-committed [paid] account.

It takes money to run websites (for servers, colocation, and bandwidth), and this seems like a better way to pay for it than blasting you with annoying pop-up ads and spamming you with advertisements to your e-mail.

Well, how much does it cost?

The rates are as follows:

You'll have a hard time finding a better value anywhere. The most annoying part will likely be pulling out your wallet, finding your credit card, and typing in your information.

So what cool features will I get?

Feel Great!

You can feel good about yourself, knowing that you are supporting the site that you love and store your most personal feelings and thoughts on. Your contribution will help this site keep running and growing.

InsaneJournal.com E-mail Address

All e-mail to yourusername@insanejournal.com will be forwarded to your personal e-mail address. Using this feature will prevent you from having to create a new account with another service for a cool address, since you're all ready using your favorite e-mail provider. You can also choose to show none, either, or both of your e-mail addresses in your User Information page, depending on what you want to expose.

Email Updates

You will have the ability to use your email client to update your InsaneJournal. This will save you the time and hassle of having to open your web browser just to make a post to your InsaneJournal. It will also allow you to update your InsaneJournal from anywhere using your e-mail enabled cellular device.

Complete Customization

In addition to just being able to pick the style of your journal and the colors, you'll also be able to create your own style using whatever HTML you like. Customize your InsaneJournal in any way you like. This will also let you be able to make new styles that match your website that you can then easily embed, never revealing that you're using InsaneJournal.com as your journal mechanism.

No Ads

When you are logged in, you can now browse through InsaneJournal.com, without seeing any of the annoying ads.

Text Messaging

If you have a pager or cellphone, you can receive text messages (or numeric messages) right from InsaneJournal. You can set it to allow all users, registered users, or only your friends to page you. This is especially useful if you don't want to expose your cell number to everybody, but want to be able to get messages on it. Combined with the "friends-only" option, it's just really cool.

Additional User Pictures

You're able to upload up to 250 user picture icons to choose which one to use on each entry, in addition to your current mood/music, etc. So, say you're feeling angry: in addition to the angry mood & icon, you can also choose to use your angry picture, which will then show up on everybody's journal that lists you as a friend for that one particular angry entry.

Automatic Polls/Surveys/Booths

You can quickly and easily create voting polls and full surveys inside your journal entries, embedded right within your text. You can customize your new polls in any way you like, asking any questions.

More Friends

You'll have the ability to list as many freinds as you like. Don't hassle with the 1000 friends limit for Free Patient Accounts. Now you can join all the asylums you want and be able to watch them all on your friends page, too.

Quicker "Friends" Updates

No need to wait 240 seconds (4 minutes) for your Free Patient friends page to update. You'll be able to see new updates in your "friends" view within 45 seconds.

Friends' Friends

In addition to your "friends" view [http://yourusername.insanejournal.com/friends], you can now also read your friends' friends entries [http://yourusername.insanejournal.com/friends/friends]. This is a great way to make new friendships, since these are the friends of your friends all ready.