On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:12, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
What's Livejournal?
:-o
It was one of the first free blogging sites, before WordPress or
Blogger or the like. It has a number of forks, one of which is extant
and alive: Dreamwidth. It's the site that memcached was written for.
I've had a personal blog on there since 2002, and a technical one
since I can't remember but not that much later.
Like Google's Orkut, it ended up mainly popular in 1 geo-market --
Brazil for Orkut, Russia for LJ. Google just killed Orkut, as it does
with a lot of its sites -- it didn't even make any effort to roll it
into Wave or G+ or anything.
LJ's founder sold it off, took the money and semi-retired. The
management sold it off and now it's Russian-owned, but the English
site still works fine. I just ignore the odd sponsored link in
Russian. It has a great threaded commenting system, the basic free
offering is all I need, and because I had 400+ friends on the site at
its peak, whenever I post, a few dozen people with active accounts
still see it, so it gets a bit of attention. It was always more
community-oriented than very solipsistic sites such as WordPress or
whatever.
(Don't you mean created by kids who think the
existing community is
boring / irrelevant / dominated by someone they don't agree with and think
their new creation is going to be cool, interesting and open to all but
have yet to discover that they don't have the ability to make this happen?)
Also could be, of course.
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