Journal-based Sites

Journals — from the Old French "daily" — are websites where the user can create a profile and make posts in a blog, journal, diary or community. For many people these journals was served as a home for their fannish activities.
Several online services started providing diary-type websites and blogs around the same time, but after LiveJournal made its code "open source" and freely availableThe software running LiveJournal is primarily written in Perl. It was open source software under the GNU General Public License until 2014, when LiveJournal closed their official source code repository to the public; the license continues to apply to the old code from before this change.
Archived copy of the old LiveJournal codebase on GitHub, retrieved 2017-04-22. several "clones" emerged over the years thus contributing to the boom in journal-based sites. Some LiveJournal clones were short-lived, but others remain active today, such as Dreamwidth and InsaneJournal.: "While the sites that are hosts to online journals may attract different crowds, their formats vary only slightly: a LiveJournal is a Blurty is a Xanga is a DeadJournal is a DiaryLand."
The other communities designed using the LiveJournal software or code forks of it, with features and formats similar to LiveJournal itself, they often was has different terms of service than LiveJournal's, making them attractive to users who have become disenchanted with LiveJournal's rules and wished to move their journals to other hosts.
==Journal-based's List==
*LiveJournal, Descript: LiveJournal.com is a free service here on the Internet that allows you to create and customize your very own "live journal" ... an up-to-the-minute log of whatever you're doing, when you're doing it. It's free, it's fun, it's easy to use!
*DeadJournal, Descript: DeadJournal.com is a journal site (much like LiveJournal), but as you will quickly see, not all journals are apple pie and fruitcakes. Here is where you find the journals that nobody else wants to see, or even host. We love pissed off people, if you're a pissed off person who hates incompetence, please sign up now! **Joey, DJ Offical Mascot**
*ParaJournal, Descript: ParaJournal.com is a free service that allows you to create and customize your very own "live journal": a journal that you keep online! You can update with short entries many times a day, or with long entries a few times a week... however you'd like to use it. It's free, it's fun, and it's easy to use! So come and create your very own ParaJournal. Let the world know the story of your life, as it happens!
*uJournal, Descript: ujournal.org is a free service that allows you to create and customize your very own journal that you keep online! You can update with short entries many times a day, or with long entries a few times a week... however you'd like to use it. It's free, it's fun, and it's easy to use! Perhaps more interesting for programmers, uJournal is based on LiveJournal an open source project. The source code to the server and all the clients are available under various open source licenses, mainly the GPL. We welcome any and all contributors to the project in the lj_dev community at LiveJournal.
*JournalFen
*GreatestJournal
*InsaneJournal
*Dreamwidth
*OpenDiary, Descript: the first interactive online diary community on the Internet. We are currently home to 2,571 online diaries.
**FreeOpenDiary -- Open Diary News, If you are looking for the original Open Diary, it has moved to [Welcome to Free Open Diary, the first interactive diary community on the Internet. Read about the lives of thousands of real people, or get your own free online diary. We are currently home to many diaries from around the world. www.freeopendiary.com].
**TeenOpenDiary, Descript: This is Teen Open Diary, the online diary community especially for teens. Right now, there are 5523 diaries here.
*Diaryland, Descript: DiaryLand is a place where you can get your own online diary, that you can update super-easily just using your web browser! DiaryLand is also a community of people like you who also have online diaries, and you can discuss stuff with them on the member discussion boards. They can give you useful tips on how to use DiaryLand and how to make your diary amazing, or you can just chat with them about stuff in general. We want your diary to be as cool as you want it to be!
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