May 31, 2013
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Xanga is Shutting Down?
I thought this would happen sooner or later. I’ve been on Xanga for over a decade. There were a few years in which I didn’t blog at all. I’ve experimented with other blogging sites, but I always came back to Xanga because I felt like it was a good old friend who knew my history. Maybe not the greatest quality friend, but an old friend nonetheless and I could care less about the other sites out there that promised so many innovative techniques to blogging. Xanga did the job, plain and simple.
As a site, I felt that it struggled too hard for too many years to stay afloat. During that time, we had to deal with them putting ads on our blogs and then provoking us to pay for membership to remove the ads. I am not really excited about Xanga’s proposed transfer to WordPress. I’d rather that they merge with Google and work with them to get a site that is clean, functional, and attracts more users and possibly more traffic for advertised content. We should be allowed to keep our blog sites.
In any case, we can always see this as a new beginning. What do you think?
Comments (7)
I’d be more inclined to go with Blogger than WordPress, if only for the Google integration… but I think I’m just going to start fresh with a new blog.
Th Xanga Team hadn’t tried at all for years. Xanga was obviously not a priority for them.
@coolmonkey - Yeah…it makes me kind of mad. However, their neglect contributed to the reason I liked this site – it was a forgotten time capsule floating around in the internet with relatively low traffic. I liked it because I had some level of privacy in posting my entries while not keeping them explicitly private.
I like your reasoning, @elainer7124 - . That’s why I could keep this site and be a professional at the same time, low traffic. Thanks for stopping by!
I think their biggest mistake going forward is trying to make it a “pay for” site with no free blogging. Traffic was dying down, but there would always be an occasional stream of new people to add some diversity/creativity to the mix. Charging will remove many bloggers which is going to make the place seem even more abandoned and less inviting.
@SoullFire - yeah, I totally agree…soon it’s going to turn into an elitist sort of blog site…
I feel exactly the same way about Xanga. I’m still not exactly sure what’s going on with the site now. I guess I should figure it out.