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Has anyone heard of xanga or has a xanga site?
Features





Xanga offers both a free service (Classic) and a paid service (Premium and Premium Plus). All Xanga accounts are accessible via the username feature. One popular aspect of Xanga is the ability to customize the appearance of one's journal. Included with their free service is a basic layout formatter that allows non-HTML literate users to change their journal's layout and style, including colors and border styles. Those who do know HTML are able to include their own code within the page, allowing customization beyond what the basic layout system supports. Many other websites supply premade HTML "layouts" for Xangans to copy and paste into their "custom headers" or "webstats". In addition, Xanga offers a paid premium service offering many extra features.


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Pictures





Classic users can have a maximum of three profile pictures, which are displayed next to their posts and comments, and maintained in their photoblogs. If a user decides to pay for the Premium service, the amount of user profile pictures are upped to ninety-nine. Xanga also offers over 200 MB of free space to upload pictures, with additional picture storage space available to Premium users.


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eProps





In addition to comments, Xanga allows users to add eProps to encourage some users to post more. Usually, those who write what is considered interesting content build a large fan base behind them and thus accumulate more eProps. See also Xanga's explanation of an eProp.





By default, you automatically give out 2 eProps with the first comment you make on a new weblog entry unless you specify otherwise. Because of this, most users of Xanga don't bother to worry about eProps and instead just focus on the comments. Commenting again on the same post does not produce more eProps, and neither does commenting on one's own post. For this reason eProps are usually used as a gauge of how many different unique users have commented on a post.





The most commented and ePropped post ever, as of April 24, 2006, appears to be John's Comment Update post of June 18, 2005 with a total of 18,626 comments and 28,094 eProps.


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Subscriptions





Subscriptions allow Xangans to stay up-to-date on other Xangas to whom they're "subscribed," and bring the latest blogs from selected Xangas to the user without having the user manually visit each site.





Subscriptions were originally called "Sites I Read," so some older users sometimes refer to them as "SIR" as in I SIRed a steak.





Subscriptions can also send your friends' posts to your e-mail. Some people have more than one site and have used a different e-mail address for each one, so if you have subscribed to the friend on one of your other sites with an e-mail address you do not check, you will not be able to get the subscriptions.


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Privacy Options





Any Xangan can utilize a blocking feature to block other specifically-designated Xanga members from posting comments on his/her blog. This feature is often invoked as a response to offensive commenting behavior. There is also a feature called "Protected Posting" which makes it so that entries designated as "Protected" can only be viewed by Xanga members that are added by the blogger to his/her own protected list. (The Xanga Classic protected list can hold only up to 10 members; you must obtain Xanga Premium in order to get an unlimited list.) In addition, users may enable a xanga lock, which prevents non-xanga users from viewing a site. If a casual web browser who was not logged in to a xanga wished to view someone's xanga, he or she would first have to log in to a registered account, or else he or she would only see a page indicating that that user has chosen to "lock" their xanga.


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Blogrings





A Blogring connects a circle of Weblogs with a common focus or theme. All Xanga users are given the ability to create a new blogring or join an existing one. Blogrings are searchable by topic. A list of blogrings that the user is associated with appears in a module typically on the left side of the website. Each user is allowed a maximum of 8 blogrings.


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Metros





A metro is a social networking feature that provides an indication of the geographic area where Xanga members live. Xanga limit metros to large metropolitan areas. If you visit a metro, you can see a list of metro members who have updated recently. If you click of their names (or pictures), you will be sent to their site. Some Xangans leave comments on the sites of other Xangans in their metro whom they would like to get to know better.


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Xanga Premium





Xanga also offers pay services called Xanga Premium and Premium Plus. Members who subscribe to either service receive additional features, including additional photo storage and monthly uploads. The Premium plan provides 2 GB of photo storage and 100 MB of monthly uploads while the Premium Plus plan provides unlimited photo storage and 1GB of monthly uploads. Premium members may also fully customize their site using skins, post entries to their site via electronic mail, and download archives of their entries. Pages of Premium members also do not contain web banners. Some other Premium features include: a higher limit on profile pictures, a custom sidebar, and specialized page skins. [2]


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Xanga Skins





A Skin is a CSS stylesheet paired with HTML and Xanga's own language. Xanga Premium allows for complete customization of a user's page; Classic users have more restrictions because of users attempting to remove the leaderboard ad. Xanga Premium skins are referred to as "skins," while Classic templates are referred to as "layouts," but are oftentimes mixed up with Premium skins. There is a specific page for adding skins, and many inexperienced users mistake this for the "Custom Header" and "Website Stats" for which Classic users only have access to. Xanga Premium skins and Xanga layouts cannot be interchanged without prior editing.


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Customizations





In recent years, there have been a large upspring of Xanga related communities that specialize in contributions by layout designers, blogring.net and createBlog.com (formerly xangans.com) being the two biggest. Submitting to either one of the above sites exposes users to constructive criticism from other experienced users. There have also been banding of guilds, more commonly called "collaborations," where veteraned designers form a team to create layouts using each one's specialty. These collaborations involve small-scale message boards where they can recieve feedback and a server host to host peripherals such as banners and music.





Aside from layouts, Xanga users have access to almost unlimited capabilities. This has determined the devout in Xanga, since the start of MySpace and other blog/profile sites. Xanga Classic users can use all HTML properties, only excepting the %26lt;META%26gt; tag, which Xanga banned in 2004 for being associated with advertisment removing. %26lt;META%26gt; tags is one of the tags that page trasitions can be made from. At the time of the ban, page transitions were at the peak of popularity. The most controversial among the user community is the use of an HTML encoder. Since most Xanga users are Classic users, they feel that all scripts should be public domain. Xanga is one of the few blog/profile sites that allows the encoding property to work. The encoding property is not bound by Xanga's Javascript blocks, so a user may encode a %26lt;META%26gt; tag and place the encoded script into his/her blog and "trick" Xanga into thinking that it is a safe script. Thus being said, Xanga blogs have an infinite number of customizations, and has led to a sense of uniqueness within the community.


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Innappropriate Usage





Even though Xanga provides positive interaction between millions of users, inappropriate use of user blogs remains a large problem for the Xanga administration.





Many of the users of the site use their blogs to post inappropriate pictures. These pictures could range from child pornography to pictures of the deceased.





In addition, there have been many sites created for the sole purpose of expressing dislike or animosity towards others. These types of sites tend to attract retaliation in the form of negative or offensive comments, promoting hate-speak within Xanga. The Xanga Team has attempted to close such "hate sites" down, along with restricting other users who they feel misuse the Xanga environment.





Although it is briefly mentioned in its About page, many users play copyrighted material without permission. This has not sparked investigation by the RIAA yet, but widespread playing of music can end this. It is stated on copyrighted material that "distribution" is also not allowed without permission; there are a slew of Xanga users who specialize in finding uploaded audio other users may hotlink to.





Some users who have mastered basic HTML and CSS create more advanced and eye-pleasing templates for other users who are less apt. These users are called "designers" or "layout coders." A problem Xanga not yet solved is copyrighting of images. The mass of designers use a generic search engine (such as Google Image Search) to find a picture of the defined theme (such as video games, music artists, atheletes, etc) and merely add text or other embellishments. The designers then stamp the image (banners, backgrounds, avatars) as their own copyrighted image. When other users copy designers' images and claim theim as their own, these users are called "jockers" adapted from the word "hijack." The confrontation oftentimes involves flaming. Xanga has not commented on the subject because layout designers are the actual copyright infringers, but they add the visual appeal to Xanga.





The Xanga team has also been making other more recent efforts to fix the above problems.
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