So Long, Xanga

Xanga logo

Anyone heard of Xanga? Amazingly it has been around for nearly 15 years. It is a blogging community, and I even had my own blog so I could keep in touch with my middle-school friends back in the early 2000's. (We were so "cool" back then to have our "own" website..!)

Well the news about Xanga is that it has gone bankrupt. The Xanga Team announced that they wish to relaunch Xanga, and started a fund-raising campaign to raise $60K. I don't think they'll reach their goal because with only 3 days left (donation page here), they've only raised $46K (even after their 15-day extension of the fundraiser).

Why only $60K? Because they want to make the blogging feature a subscription. So you have to pay to blog. Even with the "Vision for Xanga 2.0" from a July 8th post, I think that Xanga has already dug it's grave, and has been dead for a while.

An interesting fact: one of the co-founders of Twitter, Biz Stone, helped create Xanga. Stone designed the original Xanga logo, too. On his old Xanga page you can see how he posted about his new Twitter site.
Ironically, I think that Twitter's micro-blogging contributed to the downfall of Xanga.

Has anyone else had a Xanga blog? I would post the link to my blog here, but it's way too embarrassing. Plus, if/when Xanga shuts down, it will be gone forever unless you download an archive here of your entire blog. I've started my download, but I don't plan on ever looking at my old, silly, teenager posts.

'Til next time,
Amanda

P.S. Rest in Peace, Kidd Kraddick.