On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:12, Peter Coghlan via cctalk <cctalk@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. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053