Xanga? ...

I just want your opinon here, what do you think is so special about xanga? I mean everywhere, I hear "Dude! What's your xanga?" instead of "What's your AIm"? I really don't see anything in xanga. What do you think of it?

same thing with me... i personally dont like xanga, tho i have one i hardly ever update. i have one with blogger.com and hell i can edit how it looks like a real site. xanga just well...sucks lol, in my opinion. i hate the templates and how the default template is like. plus all of the xangas i go to are all decked out in weird crap thats besides the actual point of having a blog lol.

lol...Almost all the good blogs are based upon the same code anyways, unless some new one comes along and tries makeing the code itself, like livejournal.com for example . And other companies just edit the code of the original blog so meh.It's all the same to me.I personaly don't like Xanga though, and I use livejournal, or my websites journal.

I dislike Xanga. I mean yeah it's cool that people with no knowledge of webdesign can make their own site and stuff, but that makes me angry that people do that and then brag about how good it looks. It like the beginner thing on freewebs. You tell it what to do and it does it, nothing to be proud of there. Oh well, I guess as long as someone is offering to make the websites with just user-input people will continue to use them.

Well, there are a few reasons I use xanga. First, and foremost, xanga is compatable for me. I only have internet access from my cell phone, and its browser is mozilla 5.0 compatable. It supports no flash, so I can't login to blogger.com and it has no javascript support, so livejournal and myspace are limited at best.The second reason I use xanga is I'm lazy. I could just as well write my own blog script or use the one from here in Xisto, but I've already got a xanga.And yes, the look of xanga is way overrated. In a way, I'm glad my cell phone doesn't display colored text or backgrounds. I'm not proud of how mine looks. It was just an easy alternative to writing my own script.

I only use it because my friends all have xangas. The whole IDEA behind it - keeping track of your day to day life for random people to read - is ridiculous!

See, I have a xanga, somewhere deep down in the depths of hell
http://aymelek.xanga.com/

In case you wonder about the name, I started on xanga because xanga was the prefered ShadowMud ring. Shadowmud is well an rpg mud LOL that I used to play for oh about 10hrs straight Since I've started here as mod, I hardly showed up there *cries* Anyhow, that's how and why I got a xanga. I don't really like it, although I used to browse through them just to feed my voyeuristic and curious nature LOL.

For the record, I posted there a minute ago that they all can check my blog here

I only use it because my friends all have xangas. The whole IDEA behind it - keeping track of your day to day life for random people to read - is ridiculous!

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Personally I prefer Nucleus, I discovered it while playing with Fantastico. It's pretty cool and nifty. I guess why Xanga is so popular, is because it's more of a community. Like here, except instead of web hosting, they offer blogs.....I don't know, I'm just guessing,

The thing about Xanga (it was my first weblog), is that, often than not, Xanga was the first weblog for a lot of people. I got mine more than 4 years ago, it was the Xangabot who sent me an innocuous email, and I was just curious, and got onto the weblog bandwagon very early. Like Livejournal (which I currently have), Xanga was and still is all about the community. It's about having your blog, and making it easy for you to check out your friends' blogs, join communities, and let your friends see your blog easily, things that other community-based weblog sites also have. Xanga is really a lot like Livejournal, but slightly less customisable, and thus, aimed at the less web-savvy people. The reason why there are so many people on Xanga, as opposed to Livejournal or Deadjournal, is that in the beginning Livejournal worked like Gmail, in that you required an invite in order to get in (this was cancelled a few years back).I'm one of those people that really believe in weblogging. I have gone from Xanga to my own site, blogging by Blogger at first, then Greymatter, then got an extra blog at Livejournal for writing purposes, and then shifted my main blog over to Livejournal, because practically all my friends are on Livejournal. The community factor here is very important. Lots of people never switch from Xanga or Livejournal because it is just made so easy to check your friend's journals or comment or post in a community blog. When I post something at my Livejournal, I know all my friends will see it and know about it (it works better than email and SMS sometimes).Now I'm still keeping my Livejournal, and planning to have two blogs on my website, one for writing, one for opinions, serious stuff that I don't need my friends to know, and those will be operated by a blogging system. I've tried MovableType, Wordpress, Nucleus, Textpattern, but none of them really work the way I would like them to, so in the end I might just end up blogging manually.I agree that people who have a Xanga shouldn't show off, it's not that big a deal in terms of how much skill is required to maintain one, but look at it this way: people who think they've done a lot for their Xanga probably are not very web-savvy anyway, so it really might have been a big deal for them.

Hmm... I concur.I have been to peoples xangas website thing and they're like "ohh look at my new 13374g3 back ground! its totally teh r0xx0rs" or something stupid like that because they can't really speak in hacker speek. (not that I can either obviously.)I have xanga. Mine isn't incredible flashed out. Its got a blue back ground with black text in size 12 i think with comic sans MS as my text style. I joined xanga because all my friends where. A few months later my friend(s) goes "I don't like people reading my thoughts. I'm going to stop xanga" so they go and start a website.... To write about their thoughts in their days. They soon decide that this makes no sense so they go back to xanga. Meanwhile I wasn't updating my xanga then all of a sudden everybody in my life starts talking about xanga and how awesome it is and how you should go read this current xanga entry and blah blah blah, so i decide to start xanga again cause... my friends have.I find where my old friends had their xanga and I find out that they started xangaing it again... Well ok, sorry for that little part of my life, but its cause people decide that they wanna do it, and get their friends to do it....If I remember correctly, live journal is pay to use? Correct? unless you're invited by someone who is paying? Thats another reason I'd say, is because xanga is free unless you subscribe to premium, which I don't think is necessary though they do make you think it is. Community, free, people making them selves feel smart... it all works for xanga...

Livejournal is free. There is a paid option, which has more features, but to have a livejournal is free.

Well, there's no doubt that for a "computer savy" person, Xanga is a bore. But it does have easy features to use and because of that everyone has one. I don't have one personally but it is interesting sometimes to see what people do in their lives . Also, someone here said, "why not AIM" and that is because xanga is a much more personal thing then aim and most other online stuff like that.

I have an xanga, haven't touched it too much recently...plus the people who used to chat with me on xanga jumped over to myspace or something so i haven't gotten any comments neither...lol

Anyways, I'm proud of my xanga design - http://chronicloser.xanga.com/ - except that it runs really really slowly whereas if i were to have the same code on my Xisto account it'd run twice as fast. Xanga has to find itself some faster servers. Anyways, I like'd xanga a lot when i actually had readers and such. Now...well it's pretty quiet now i've just started to kinda make new entries recently but it's all been those "I'm really busy right now so I'll make another entry later" type of thing lol