Some good info in here.
Friend: elloit u should switch over to xanga instead of blog
Me: xanga sucks..
Friend: lol
Me: i created my xanga in march but it’s just a commercial business
Friend: ic
Me: they force ads on your blog
Friend: ic
Me: the features are horrible and you can’t customize very much without paying $
Friend: im not surprised
Friend: so ur making money off of xanga?
Me: no. xanga is
Hm… looks like xanga is just as sneaky as we are. Ad removal no longer working…
Finally someone who feels the way I do. My whole school is so actively engulfed in Xanga that it sickens me. And the blogrings are the worst. Why join something you can’t contribute to at all?
I think I love you ^_^
Wow. This post and this comment is a pretty interesting read. Here are my opinions about all these things.
I personally like xanga, blogger, livejournal, and other manual ones (wordpress, b2, etc…). I don’t mind at ALL. But why diss Xanga? It’s not bad. Try to validate? Of course it can’t! But (ho, ho, HO), fix your blog a little before saying stuff like that. 7 errors were found during your XHTML validation (13 if you validate comment pages) and 2 were found during the CSS validation. Plus a large amount of CSS warnings.
And anyway, with a little patience, you could make a xanga look not that bad. I once had a layout that make it look like a wordpress powered blog! That was fun :D.
And anyway, the javascript is just to help enhance it a little. The kids who put things like that on are just school followers with DSL. They think it’s “k00l” because some person started to and now it’s the trend.
So it doesn’t really matter what those kids think NOW about how a website works. Because some people I know have learned a little HTML from playing with xanga and they are (a’hem) kinda… thick. And they are either going to get interested and get into a Webdesign class in 10th grade or never use blogs or websites or anything again later on. And if they think it’s to the trend, they’ll start to browse things and soon, they’ll discover validation and things.
So why do other people’s blogs mess with how YOU feel about the site that hosts them? What did XANGA do? It’s not like Xanga allowed scripts that slow YOUR Xanga down. They didn’t do anything in general. It’s like a free web host. Of course they should put ads to make a profit, but if you hate them just because they host immature people. Then wow, you’re a bit shallow I must say…
I’ve been with Xanguh for a while, I think it’s just great. My layout has many adjustments, but it’s still simple, so yeah. Thanks for the banner removal code (: Check my site out.
actually.
livejournal is better than xanga/blogger.
though blogger>xanga if you’re comparing the two.