April 24, 2009
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Blogging Communities in the Xanga Network
We’ve gotten a lot of requests for what we’re calling Xanga Network sites (like Mancouch or Momaroo).
A bunch of ideas for Network sites have been submitted to the Ideas forum:
- Artists – submitted by xxbabyjen_babybrittxx
- Atheists and non-Christians – submitted by LiLbabeSwT and LadyLibellule
- Book lovers – submitted by deposed_queen
- Dads – submitted by Romans_837
At the same time, we’ve also been getting emails from various users asking us if they could launch their own Network sites using their own URL’s. A few users have even started turning their Xanga sites into collaborative blogs .
- Vanedave started a collaborative sports site at http://bfnsports2debate.xanga.com/
- Edlives is creating a collaborative site about autism http://autisable.xanga.com/
Then it hit us: we could solve both problems, and create the ability for anyone to create and manage your own blogging community! You could not only manage your own blog, but you could host blogs by members of your community.
Here’s how it would work:
- You pick an audience or topic you’d like to build a blogging community around.
- You buy a URL and point it at Xanga’s servers.
- You customize the look of your site, using something ideally like Themes
That’s pretty much it actually.
It’s actually a lot of work to run a collaborative group blog – so we’ve built software which people to submit posts, and editors to edit and schedule them. It really streamlines the whole process of running a collaborative group blog.
The software would be free to you (well, we might charge a small fee for the URL hosting). You would put in your own Google AdSense codes, and keep most of the ad revenue; to cover our hosting costs, we would run our own ads about 1/3 of the time.
Naturally, any sites in the Xanga Network would fully interoperate with Xanga.
And you could use these tools to build sites about artists, atheists, book lovers, dads, or whatever else floats your boat!But before we build this, we wanted to get your feedback. Would you be interested in something like this? What kind of collaborative Network sites would you like to see us (or other Xangans) launch?
Thanks!
Comments (181)
This would be awesome!!!! I would start a blogging community about marriage and the struggles and joys of being married!
Dear Team,
This is a great idea. I often wondered why these satellite sites couldn’t be run by any blogger who wanted to invest the time and money to set one up.
Bravo.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
I like the idea…particularly for art centered topics such as writing and photography.
doesn’t interest me
I didn’t understand half of the words in this post… I’m so internet unsavvy! Lol. But I really hope people do this!
Artists for the win. Let me know when we can buy ours!
@repressedwriter - writing, ftw.
I wouldn’t do this probably but I think it’s an awesome idea for others!
I wouldn’t do it, but it sounds like a great idea for other users. It’s good that you’re charging to keep out the riff raff.
I sound 90 years old.
Hi
From a third world country like India I can only wish I had such a manna from Heaven!The central bank does not allow any online payments now–not because of he Recession–and I do not know much about designing a website of my own too!
So let me pray my kids may be lucky enough to make use of your gracious offer.
If I could i would have my blogsite with its focus on INDIA mainly!!Ha ha!!.
sadaboy india@xanga
Both “atheists” and “nonChristians” seem awfully narrow as ish sites. Properly speaking, there should be a monotheist -ish for all the Abrahamic faiths, a polytheistic -ish, and an atheist/agnostic -ish. Then you would also have to do something about worldviews such as Taoism or Buddhism, which might technically be considered polytheistic but don’t necessarily center on deities.
Also, I note that in your mention of collectives you neglected catpooish.
Hmm, interesting. Sounds good. But you’ve kind of totally removed the need for blogrings now. Because you *know* it’s not going to stay a select list, even with making people pay for it.
If there was a way to moderate it before starting the thing, just to save people spending money on a group that already existed, would be ideal, even if it means hiring someone to read every single freakin’ proposal.
Not saying that I think it’s a bad idea by a long shot – I’d love to see more communities, especially as arty ones are all I’m interested in, but at the same time, my two worries about it are sort of niggling. Blogrings have already been almost completely sidelined in my time here… Now no one’s ever going to want to join another except for as a cheap club or something between friends.. I can bet every other interest will be quickly covered, making even the oddest redundant pretty quickly.
@moritheil - Just sharing ideas that Xangans had suggested.
The nice thing is that if we did this, you could create a site as narrow or as broad as you saw fit!
@john - I understand. I realized it days ago when I was browsing through the Ideas and “nonChristian ish” kept popping up, but there was nowhere to leave this comment at the time
who wants to collab with me????
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I’ve tried this past month to start up a successful social-issues related blog (and may also add a feminist blog), but I would love to know how to take it to the next level (i.e., with a bona fide community URL). My site has been successful (somewhat) thus far, but this would be a great opportunity. Thanks Xanga!
Hmmm, I see it getting a bit ridiculous, with way too many, and multiples of the same type. You know how there’s already a ton of ideas that get submitted multiple times? Kinda like that. But with this, there’s a chance to make money. So people are going to be discouraged that someone else is running the site that they wanted to, so they might start their own of the same to give it competition. Or someone will want to get a monopoly on the popular topics, and so someone will go through and get urls or politicish, abortionish, atheish, sexish, etc, until there’s like 20,000 ish sites and nobody cares anymore. Just like blogrings. And since it won’t be driving traffic to people’s actual page, just the ish page, and nobody will read the ish page anyways because there’s too many to keep track of, they will die off.
That sounds great. Do our google ad sense codes work on multiple sites? As in could I use the one I use for my personal page on this one as well?
Simply due to my interest in the sports realm…..i think this idea is full of win…charging a small fee helps cut down on spammed sites….
Often when I hear complaints about what Xanga isn’t, I normally point to what it is, and the advantages many don’t appreciate…traffic, servers, and giving people a launching pad to create something themselves.
While many people may not have the ability, the interest or the time, giving the ones who do the platform in which to try things with a very minimal risk factor is great.
I know we see a lot of things opposite, but I have never sweat that. I appreciate the platform, and the ability you are giving people to launch their own creativity to make it a even more unique community. This seems to make a lot more sense than investing in a bunch of new revelifes, etc…
This may get people back into utilizing blogrings in different manners that they have not previously used them. Thanks for making the new software available.
BTW, do you have code available for us “old siters” to add edit to our comments box?
hm… sounds like ning.com
Dang skippy….the sports site dave and I are working on, along with the autisable site…PLUS the BFN….dude…that’d ROCK!
Sounds like a good idea. Sounds like the way it should have gone in the first place, but your plan makes both blogging and business sense. It still seems a little obscure, though, how much these are going to be “Xanga sites” versus a private site built around Xanga and functional with the “Xanga-scape”. For instance, is it essentially going to be a personal blog with upgraded features for managing a community that has its own URL or is it going to be more open to manipulation by the host user to really edit and control the structure through their own html, javascript, etc.? I imagine it would be something like a modified user account that acts like a CMS “user portal” to their blogging community content with a lot of features just like users or premium users have available with their themes and modules. But I’m not even premium so I don’t know what all that extra “stuff” actually is, nor how it would differ to being a community host.
This is an awesome idea
Sigh.
Great. 500000 more ish sites.
Good idea! I like it!
I don’t have a concrete opinion about this just yet. We’ll see.
I personally wouldn’t host one, but I think its a good idea. Run with it.
It think that you should have the ability to shut any of them down if you have to.
There should be something like a list so that we don’t have five Dad sites, three more Momaroos and seventeen Mancouches.
We should also be able to rate/flag these generally (much like how we can rate individual blogs) so that we don’t have a whole system of haters or spammers or whathaveyou.
But yeah, cool idea.
Great idea. Will we be able to buy the url with credits. If so, can members of a group donate their personal credits to their group admin in order to pay for the url, premium or whatever else in order to help maintain the site.
Isn’t xxbabyjen_babybrittxx that creeper Ron???
Sounds interesting.
This sounds awesome. I don’t think I’ll be using it, or I won’t right away, but it’s nice to know that the option is there (if launched).
this is a fantastic idea!
@SilverBird_Loves - Look, Ron. You’ve got some nerve STILL making Xanga sites EVEN AFTER John made his post. Seriously? Leave Xanga alone. You’re lucky you’re not in jail.
ok – most of that did a “fly by”. I don’t really grasp the concept or how it will work… but then again, I’m not that ‘up’ on tech etc…. and can’t help feel that there are a lot of xangans that may be in the same boat.
@john - The ONLY concern I would have is over duplication of topics. Might be good if there was a way to reduce duplication. After all, we wouldn’t want 40 blogging communities about autism – it would defeat the purpose of creating ONE community on the Xanga Network to address it.
At least in the beginning stages, anyways.
Just a thought to ponder.
@hubbaduh - lololol yuppp…and @SilverBird_Loves - this is him, as well. Not that Xanga cares…
I’ll use the arts site if I’m doing my second story arc of my web fiction.
@Adalyne - This is ridiculous…didn’t John post about how they were going to shut down all of Ron’s sites? Seems like he even asked us to message him if he we knew of any…I know that I did, but never heard back from John (even asked for some clarification about the whole thing).
This is a nice idea, but Xanga is already cluttered as it is.
These Xanga Mini-Me will ultimately self destruct in the future.
@hubbaduh -
trying to start some drama there, rhea? highschool antics belong in highschool.
I don’t want more ish sites flooding my front page and universal inbox.
I’m not sure I’m for this… wont this make us all further disjointed instead of together? *shrug*
@Adalyne - @SilverBird_Loves - I care!
@hubbaduh - ”creepers” have the coolest ideas, don’t they?
What a fantastic idea!
You got me until I read:
“You buy a URL and point it at Xanga’s servers.”
Roughly how much is it going to cost?
@SilverBird_Loves - Are you one to talk about highschool antics you pedophile? I mean, really? Isn’t dating minors for highschool? I mean, really? And don’t we all lie and pretend we’re people we’ll never be…in high school? I mean? C’mon. Use some sense. It’s clear you have none, but you’re such a good pretender, I’d presume you’d act like it. Leave Rhea alone. She’s got a lot more sense than you, puto.
@AnGeLmArYy21 - MMM. Creepers DO have the coolest ideas! If you think child molestation is for the win, then you’re right on board! Suck it, puta.
@Adalyne - LMAO!!!!!!!! BAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Adalyne -
hahahaha! puto, puta! cute, britt. showing some really nice maturity there. restraint, sistuh! you got what you wanted, no laws are broke, and you need to chill with sundaysex and move on please.
@The_Female_Essence - Oh, I’m sorry. Should I be showing you something different? I can’t think of anything better you’d deserve.
That’s a great idea!
Sounds pretty cool.
@SilverBird_Loves - Your welcome, love!….uhm, eww!
@AnGeLmArYy21 -
thanks, babe… she’s one angry girl. i hope she finds her peace in life.
I think it’d be good to have a site about books, like you mentioned.
Sounds like a great idea. I personally wouldn’t use it much, but I can think of a handful of people who would. This would be a great way to run contests that are usually very unorganized around here.
Great job Xanga team!
I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to run a blog with a few authors, but not something as open as an ish site, however.
@ProvokingThought - yes, I would like that comment editor on look & feel as well. I’d put it in as an idea a while back…
@The_Female_Essence - Play everybody else? You’re insane. I do believe YOU are the one who played everybody. Am I the one who pretended to be half my age and of a different gender? I told no lies. The only thing I did was leave out how sexual the relationship was, to keep YOU out of jail. Watch your step, sick boy.
this is like the much more advanced form of the original blogring idea with members of the blogring posting photos or individual posts to the blogring. but you pay money for it. well, by seeing how groups like tripcrazed, revelife, mancouch have taken off, i guess it’ll draw interest from those bloggers who want to seriously participate in these kinda networks.
@elvesdoitbetter - It does sound a lot like ning.com
Xanga is getting a little segregated it seems like.
I don’t see how this would be significantly different from blogrings, except it would make money for Xanga and let you host more ads. After a while, it would get bogged down with people starting groups that begin with *~*~*~ and !!!! to get bumped to the top of the search list, and there’d be 50,000 groups with the same focus. What’s the point?
Regardless, it seems to be dividing the community more than attempting to bring it together. Xanga has already moved dramatically away from the pure blogging site it used to be. This will make it worse. People may as well join outside forums for whatever focus group they are interested in participating in.
@Adalyne -
thank you. it’s finished, brittany. please let it go. if you care to, message me. if not, please have a little respect for this post. if we would have communicated after the break, you would understand so much more than what you do.
There you go again, Xanga Team, listening to your bloggers.
This is why I love this place. Y’all are doing wonderfully!
look, in every community there are artists, musicians, painters, writers, you name it! (i’m speaking only for the “arts site”). this IS a community, and how is it being torn apart? these “ish” sites actually draw people IN and you don’t have to give up blogging to also be a member of one.
your blog site is where you go home to relax and chill and write about your life! the “ish” sites are more like going to work everyday and talking about your specialty! sure, a few of them are a little funny – but remember this is all still in the infant stage and bugs are being worked out. i say thanks to the team for caring and NO, silly!!! it’s NOT about the dollars – this is NOT myspace! this is – and we ARE family here. ♥
It sounds like a great idea.
@moritheil - i like the idea of dividing it into monotheist, athiest, polytheist, etc – ish types, but i think just for the sake of not getting the divition too out of control, the polytheist could be more of a general “new age” type thing, emcompassing the multiple deity views as well as the bigger picture views of taoism and buddhism, and the like. since, as a society, at least in the US, such things are all lumped together in the general category by the more structured (and in this i mean to say mainly Christian and/or other monotheists) views. other than that, i heartily support thy logic.
I think it’s a great idea, as long as people are willing to pay. The people who suggest the ideas probably wanted something free. I happy with just plain xanga myself.
-Heidi
I would like to have a blog site on grief and separation issues.
the artists ones sounds awesome.
I would definitely be interested in a community for atheists and the non-religious. I don’t know about hosting, but I would definitely love to have all of that stuff together in one place.
Not my cup of tea, but thanks.
That sounds like a good idea. I won’t likely create my own, but I’ll probably be interested in the stuff other people make.
I’m sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but I don’t agree with this.
It is chaotic, and what exactly is the point of building your own blogging community when you already belong in one? (Xanga, that is)
The ish sites were cool, but I won’t give them 5 stars. Mainly because I find that it diverts away from Xanga.
Xanga is already a community in itself. There’s a search bar in which we could search for topics and stuff to read. If people are making their own blogging communities here in Xanga (which is already a blogging community in itself – need I mention this twice?), wouldn’t this just make readers STRESSFUL for having too much to read, when in fact you can blog about this same topic (artists/atheists/book lovers/sports/dads/autism) in your own Xanga blog?
This is unecessary.
I don’t mean to be a downer to everyone who agrees with these ideas, but its just too much. It is becoming more chaotic. Xanga should be an exceptional website, not making too much fuss that it becomes just like any other website.
This also poses a concern from me. I mean, what if I would decide to write about those same topics (artists/books/atheists/autism) in my own Xanga blog? That would mean LESS readers for ME because now, people won’t be going to MY Xanga blog or any other Xanga blogs for that matter. They’d just simply go to that other “blogging community” that certain users have created.
Please clarify more on this.
Thanks.
@TheDumberScott - I really agree with this.
@edlives - I find that BFN sports thing….unecessary. I mean, if I want to see some sports-related stuff, I could just find them on the internet. Or watch TV. Or CNN sports.
@moniet - LOL. I feel the same way.
@c_jamaica - it’s not just about watching news and sports, it’s about discussing and debating it amongst Xangans.
I’m a purist when it comes to blogging. Doesn’t interest me at all.
Sure, but I think we sorta already have this with blogrings. Upgrading blogrings with these functions would be great IMO.
I like this, it seems to take blogrings to another level and allows for smaller communities, like groups of bloggers that have been “hanging out” together on here for awhile.
@edlives - Well, yeah. I think that is pretty much obvious. But if you have read my comment to the XangaTeam (the long one above), why should we have this separate blogging community when we could just as well discuss some sport stuff in our own Xanga blogs and have others debate about it?
@Adalyne - I second that, I’ve been waiting for that idea to come through. I post plenty about my art on my own blog I’d have plenty of submissions.
@c_jamaica - A very good point, indeed. the challenge is obtaining the number of people who want to actually discuss the same topic (be it sports, or otherwise). Collaborative efforts have proven to help out on this end, allowing people to do what they want on their own site – while having mutual discussions about the same topic on a separate site. It creates an even (non-bias) playing field to allow for that level of open discussion.
Blogrings couldn’t be effective on that level, so opening a new site on Xanga and collaborating with various Xangans allows for that to happen more effectively.
And it’s not like it completely a separate blogging community either…think about it a bit more, and you’ll see that going the route theXangateam is going allows for others not normally on Xanga to see the wide variety of subjects Xangans talk about.
(we’re all still Xangans…it’s just a Network now)
I would love to see a political network. Political issues seem to come up a lot on Xanga.
Whoooooooooo!!!
You guys are so awesome!
I think it’s starting to get a bit too divided. Too many separate sites other than xanga!! why?? O.o
Too many ish sites!!
If you’re going to do this, you should at least moderate it to make sure these sites don’t overlap (so you don’t get two of the same kind of site). It would be really irritating to have 12,000 ish sites floating around.
What a swell ideal, but I’m a bit concerned that all xanga is going to be is these ish sites in the near future. They already take up most of the frtonpage (however I noticed lately there has been some mixing of blogs, most of those which are always picked as the top blogs). Where will xanga be in 5 years?
Does this work sort of like a wiki or ning?
Is it just me or is xanga getting more and more segregated? Jeez. I don’t like it.
Sounds interesting!
Aweome idea. I want to start “Hatingish”, for people who don’t like the ish sites. The posts will all be sarcastic spoofs on Ish posts.
But seriously, this is a cool idea. It could get out of hand, but it’s cool.
I think there are too many Ish sites….there will always be another one that someone else wants…the possibilities are endless. Whatever happened to just plain old Xanga??
wow sounds great! you should see queerish.xanga.com
nice xanga! If I graduate and get my degree I would definetely try this… congrats! You’re making the internet a great thing to have. You make boredom disappear… and trust me, as a student… that is a great thing!
how bout a blogging community for teens? :] don’t have one of those yet.
Freaking brilliant!!
@SilverBird_Loves - I believe that you started the drama Ron when you pretended to be a high school aged girl….but anyhoo….
@AnGeLmArYy21 - Um…..no, not so much. The whole artist idea isn’t even that great….no offence.
@hubbaduh -
yes, rhea. you are correct. i did do that. i apologize to you. my comment was out of line and in response to “creeper” remark which is accurate if only one side is known.
I think this is a great idea. My only concern is how would these new sites that cropped up get the advertising like the current ‘ish’ sites?
Neutral
So, is this going to replace blogrings, which are quickly having functions taken away from them anyway?
So we have to pay to have our own network site while Christians get theirs for free?
Yeah… that makes sense.
i think i like it
I think this idea is fabulous although I’d love to see a *free* version of it at least to begin with. I have been recently diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom (PCOS) and would love to start a community for other women facing the same disease. It is a genetic disorder that alters hormone levels in females causing infertility and other awful symptoms. I look forward to seeing more on this… Please keep me in the loop!
That sounds awesome, actually. Do it, to it.
I am not interested in these speciality sites. Judi
@hubbaduh - I think the arts idea is a very good one. Writing goes with art. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be enjoyable. I’d be more likely to look at that one (and the book one too of course!) than most of the other ones..
@Dare2BDiferentt - I’m with ya’ on the Hatingish thing .lol.
atheists sounds cool
there would be many sub community within xanga, is it?
@edlives - I see your point. But you’re not seeing mine. MY point in this matter is that I want other Xanga users to read what I have to say in my own Xanga blog. I don’t want them to go running to another “networking” site here in Xanga just to debate.
As I’ve said, I could easily just post something of my own in my Xanga blog. How else would other people know my opinion if they’ll just go to that “networking” site anyway?
I don’t see it as NECESSARY.
I want to be able to write my opinion, my thoughts, my life in my OWN xanga blog and have readers read them as well as I would be able to read other people’s opinions, thoughts and their lives in their own xanga blogs.
If this idea should be fully launched, we might as well say goodbye to Xanga.
That’s why Xanga is Xanga. Because we are ONE, big blogging community. Why should we put other “networking” sites when we already are one?
This idea is ridiculous. Sometimes I think people are thinking up of these ideas because they have nothing better or “creative” things to do.
This is something I’ve been wondering how to do for a while now. What’s the prospective launch date?
@c_jamaica - I do see your point. Here’s how those “other” sites work….and it actually creates more traffic to one’s site than one may or may not think. (I say this because it’s worked for me in many ways)
If your posts on your site are used on ANY of these other sites, then you have more exposure. That exposure translates into more traffic for your site.
Collaboration breeds traffic.
@edlives - Hm. But won’t people just use the “reply” button when replying to a certain opinion in a debate in one of these “other” sites around xanga? That would mean people won’t bother to go to my own xanga blog. They’d just hang around that other site, read and reply to someone there.
(shrugs)
I know this is an idea and I do welcome lots of different ideas, but I’m sorry I don’t buy it. It was kind of you to explain it to me anyway. I do appreciate that.
Thanks again and have a good day!
-Jam
@c_jamaica - no problem, and I do understand what you mean. I’ve been on here for several years, but working with and learning from people that have a lot of traffic has made me appreciate the oddities and decisions that have been made.
@edlives - Well, thanks for understanding. I suppose you’d think I’m being er, self-centered? Haha, but no, I’m not. It doesn’t really matter to me if people would visit my xanga or not. I’ve been here for years now too. But it would be nice if a few people would still visit my site even if it matters less to me.
@c_jamaica - LOL – nah, we all want traffic and are a bit self-centered at times…it’s all good.
like the booklovers idea. @moritheil - buddhism and taoism are not polytheistic.
@edlives - Haha.
I rather like the idea better than rings, because like material can be kept in one place instead of being scattered all about. My concern, however, is that rather than remaining focused on a topic area, posts will start to drift away from the original intent of the site. This will become a management nightmare for the site owner/moderator, because the amount of work needed to keep the site focused will be beyond what most bloggers would be willing to handle, and the potential for a site owner to offend and lose authors who don’t comply with the site’s focus area would be very high.
And then there’s the ownership/copyright issue. Who owns the content? The site, or the individual owners?
This is a good idea, but it sounds terribly complicated. Could it be streamlined a bit?
@tata_on_the_roof - Dunno where you live, but in india and Japan at least, buddhism is polytheistic.
@moritheil - I’m wondering why they seem to have forgotten the need for “non-equistrians-ish” and “nonpumpkinpiefan-ish” and “nonredneck-ish”
Goodness… Are we really so concerned with our image that we have to define ourselves by what we aren’t?
*sigh*
What happen with a network for Spanish Speaking People?
I don’t see why you would want to start a community that is anti something. Like for non-Christians? What would it be about? Bashing Christianity and religion in general? Dangerous ground, that.
I think that’s brilliant. You guys rock, Xanga Team. <3
@NightCometh - Most religions aren’t anti-christian or anything…and atheists aren’t all against religion, it’s just that they don’t have one. Bleh. Many of them just can’t help debating with the rest of us — and we shouldn’t complain, talking to people with different viewpoints from ours if good for us!
meh =
I’d appreciate it if this idea could be launched. LINK
Love the idea, I only wish that the front page wasn’t attacked by them
This is a brilliant solution to a complex problem. I totally love it and am 100% behind it.
@thereluctantsinger - good questions. (I’m not seeing major issues, as they’re just robust Xanga blogging sites – in my opinion)
Hey, I got a question. What happened to the censoring on the Top Blogs? I really liked that. And I think y’all should do it on the featured weblogs as well.
you guys should have a blogging section on astrology and you got my vote on the artist and atheist, non-christian section.
TOTALLY. Especially since blogrings are so underutilized — you still have to go to each individual page to view what’s new there, because they don’t have their own Universal Inbox feeds like subs, friends, etc. I think that might be a cheaper or easier option for you? Just push what you already have??
BUT … people do need that sense of community, and it’s certainly been easier to achieve in smaller more-focused communities.
im still all for the creativity blog! which kinda goes with the artistish one
Literish! For people’s poems/fictions!
Also, there’s currently a site called “Queerish” that definitely deserves xanga-wide attention.
There should be some sort of requirements to do this. (Age, experience with a site, some sort of base of professionalism) I wouldn’t want to use Xanga anymore if like 100s of useless collaborative blogs were everywhere.
I wouldn’t do it because I don’t really have the time but I think it’s a great idea and a lot of people would be into it.
How about college life?
The only problem if you let it up to just anyone is you may get repetitive subjects like in the blog rings. Of course if someone is paying that will cut it down.
Personally I would love to see a network for older bloggers like over 40 that is aimed towards the every day blogger (not adult in the porn sense like others). I think if the older blogger could find others easier we would attract so many more.
Would the url have to be renewed? And what exactly would it take to monitor such a group time wise, computer savvy wise. Can it go ad free?
I’d like to see you guys make an artist site, mainly featuring videos, music, photography on front page. Pete
Of course, you realize that eventually this will reach an event horizon where we have a community site for people who moderate community sites– and it will be called Ishish. At that point Web 2.0 as we know it will have to go back into beta.
I do like the idea of a book-lovers site, though.
Would it be simpler to create a more streamlined form of blogrings? We already have those, and with just a bit of tweaking (e.g. the “submit to blogring” feature) they would be not entirely unlike what you describe here.
Great idea.
I love the idea.
@PPhilip - $5-15 a year. Depends on who you buy it from.
The ish sites are already horribly broken as is. They don’t get the new features and seem totally neglected. And then you want to add this to it?
I think this is a bad idea and will hurt xanga in the end even if it does bring in a few bucks early on.
Why are the ish sites so incredibly slow tonight anyway?
(Yes, I’m aware that I am an ish site user, that will last until I can think of a good name to use when switching back to Xanga)
I wouldn’t want to be a part of it, but it sounds like it would make a lot of people happy. As long as it wouldn’t change anything about the way Xanga works now, I’m fine with it. :)
this collaborative blog thing just might bring sexy back.
@ProvokingThought - being able to edit comments: word.
I have an sugestion. On the front page you could put who is now having an webcam shoe or “Xanga tv’ at that time.
whats up with all the maintenance recently?
I’ve been noticing that my site never updates the timestamp correctly in blogrings. I have to go in and edit the time in my entry more than once before it register as a recently updated blog. Especially tonight. No matter how many times I update the time, it never appears in the blogrings as “updated 1 minute ago”, etc.
FIX THIS PLEASE.
I know that this isn’t relevant to the above post, however, it would appear that I have no access to my personal page.
I haven’t been able to access it for over an hour now.
It would be greatly appreciated if this could be fixed promptly.
Thanks.
why does my webpage say not found I was trying to access my website and socute_laiisx3 and it tells me that the page cannot be found I didnt shut it down, whats the problem?
My only concern with this is that it’s bringing Xanga further away from being a community, which is what makes it such a great place to be. How many people will invest in one of these sites and then run out of steam for it after a few posts?
please,you have to reply!
why the heck did you shut down brainanimenetwork the xanga site?i was just workin on it one day,went to youtube,came back, it was gone please tell me what happened
no i absolutely hate this idea.
i dont get it. if xanga can have a christian ‘ish page built up for free why cant xanga just create another one for a non-religious/atheist or perhaps for other religions as well?
i mean not even just that. like if you never put up the link to the autism or the sports page i’d have never be able to learn about those websites.
because they were never on the front feature page.
and it’s always the same goddamn thing on the front page.
xanga needs to do something about this.
Hi my add a profile pic is not working. There’s no logo saying Upload – Browse at all. What’s going on?
Val.
I think Xanga should have emo-ish. hahaha. Just kidding.
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Yes! I love it! When can I get my own?
http://queerish.xanga.com/
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i think the ones for books and artists would appeal to the most people.
also, one for music.
That’s a pretty cool idea.
I’d like to see The Xanga Team launch an arts and crafts blog site.
I’m probably a bit late in commenting, but I do not like the idea of users managing such large communities. For one, you’re eliminating blogrings. For another, what would stop multiple communities from existing? It’ll become a bit out of hand and confusing like Livejournal.
I love Xanga and I know it needs to grow – what with the network sites, but this is going to create mass confusion, imo.
@Daithi - EXACTLY!
aw! yes please! and with those Xanga tutorials, please, so we can read and write about the function at ease!
i like it
Both artists and atheists would be awesome.
hmmmm.
regards.
trulytito.
(tito dutta)
I suggest we have a car group
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THIS IDEA?!??! :[ :[
I’m becoming increasingly disappointed with Xanga, and as a long-time member it hurts to say that.
It’s not even what Xanga Team does or doesn’t do — mostly it’s that the site isn’t that accessible. Users physically change pages every time they comment, unlike *cough*Facebook which keeps users on the same page to comment, etc. so that everything is more centralized.
Also the front page is a mess. Things I know are there I have trouble finding — like submitting a featured question, reading the top blogs, or submitting an idea. I already know they exist and they’re hard to get to — how is a new user supposed to feel at home like that?
I’m just …. I’m disappointed guys. Very disappointed.
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