Online journals.. What can I choose from if I wanted one?

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I use currently Livejournal, Xanga and Blogger, so I can compare a bit for you.

Ease of Posting: Livejournal wins. As Ryan said up there, you can change HTML options to suit your need. Xanga is ok, and blogger take a little longer and you have to refresh a bit and all. It takes a while to "Republish" as it's called.

Templates: Blogger wins. It's very easy to download or create templates and put them onto your journal, and alter them to include whatever you need. Xanga and Livejournal both make you pay for this creation of custom template feature, although Xanga has good color variety choices.

General Appearance: Blogger is a lot nicer. My template is really efficient, and easy to read. I don't like how Xanga is set up very much, and Livejournal is a decent balance between the two depending on your template.

Community: Livejournal wins. Oh very much so. It's very easy to join communities, and you can stay updated on all your friends doings on your friends page. Xanga does a really annoying subscription thing that frankly gets odd, they send you a load of stuff, but you can see all your friends listed. Blogger is the most technically efficient, because you can access the journals of friends from all different groups. However, you have to exit your journal which is really obnoxious, and you have to program it into your template. Livejournal's robotics community rocks. Xanga's soooo doesn't.

Go for Livejournal.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Live Journal is slow. Beside that it is a great site.

But.... its as slow as molasses, and is very sketchy. Your luck of the server actually being up is as good as the flip of a coin. I wouldn't recommend it.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Live Journal is slow. Beside that it is a great site.

But.... its as slow as molasses, and is very sketchy. Your luck of the server actually being up is as good as the flip of a coin. I wouldn't recommend it.

It's really not THAT bad... It generally is a lot slower than your average site, but you're almost always able to access it. Occasionally you'll get an error when you log in saying that your journal is unavailable or something similar, but it's almost always working.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Cory

It's really not THAT bad... It generally is a lot slower than your average site, but you're almost always able to access it. Occasionally you'll get an error when you log in saying that your journal is unavailable or something similar, but it's almost always working.

Mmmhmm - the last few weeks they've been moving all of thier stuff to a different server, so it's been going down more than usual. Even with this, I've hardly had any problems getting on the site.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I have a Deadjournal (sorry no link ) and I love it. All the upside of Livejournal, without the outages or slow pages. But, you have to know someone who has one. Sorry, I used my invite a long time ago and it's gone farther than I can track it.
I also have a LJ account but it's mainly for commenting in other people's journals. And I just joined the FIRST community.

I came close to switching to blogger the other day. They look so much nicer compared to most people's LJs.

And, as Brandon said, Wordpress.

[looneylin]

Honestly, I really like xanga b/c
1) my friends have it
2) it's sooo cool to customize
check mine out here it's all LoTR!