June 4, 2013
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Sit back and enjoy the show
So I hear that Xanga is on death’s doorstep. Can’t say I’m surprised. It’ll die unless it gets enough donations to their tip jar that they are calling a new pay-to-blog site. Well I wish them the best of luck with that.
Regardless of whether they succeed or fail, what I find fascinating is watching the death throws of Xanga. It’s amazing to watch how many people, myself included, have come out of the wood works to start blogging or commenting on the demise of their most beloved and hated blogging platform. And it’s even more fascinating to watch their reactions evolve over time. You’ve got hundreds of people going over to Facebook to wax nostalgic about their old Xanga experiences, most of which seems to involve talking about this or that person they didn’t like or this or that troll or controversy or scandal. You’ve got countless posts here on Xanga from the amusing, to the thoughtful, to the depressed, to the belligerent. And now we’ve even got people excusing their old blogging behavior as a “social experiment”. Ha. Can’t wait to see what comes next. “My blog was hacked. I can’t believe the stuff that guy posted pretending to be me”, “Everything I said was a lie. Deal with it.”, “I’m sorry if I YOU were offended by anything I wrote”, “I was just trolling, I didn’t mean anything by it”, “I’m secretly a super villain from another dimension, whose goal was to see Xanga destroyed and now I’m finally on the verge of succeeding MWAHAHAHA!”
One thing we’re almost certainly going to see is the community travel through the five stages of grief.
“No way Xanga will NEVER die.”
“DAMMIT PEOPLE DONATE YOU A-HOLES!”
“I promise I’ll never troll again if you just please please save Xanga! “
“It’s all over. Xanga will die. We’re all going to die. Even if it lives it won’t be the same. There will never be a place like Xanga. Blogging, no the internet itself, no joy itself is over forever.”
“Ah well, life moves on. Follow me on TWITTER!”
I fully expect to see people breaking down and running around with their hair on fire before this is through. It’s like a tragedy unfolding before us.
IT’S GREAT!
Sit back and enjoy the show people. Just because Xanga might be going away or at least will definitely be transforming, doesn’t mean we can’t have a good time with it.
- Nephyo
Comments (6)
I made it to stage five already. I’m just sitting back with some popcorn and a coke and watching Xanga end.
@Super_Rob_of_the_Sky - Jojo and I are eating molasses cookies and drinking dr. pepper while watching the demise of Xanga. Close enough.
Haha, look at those first two lines! Jolly good show.
Please don’t be too harsh on the excuses for blogging behavior. I mean, I *did* turn out to be a spambot, didn’t I?
Hey, you’re back!!
lol, yeah. I’d certainly like Xanga to continue, but if it doesn’t. Meh, its not like I’ve been on a lot recently anyway. *shrugs*
I should probably downlaod all my posts though… :/
@Celestial_Teapot - I always appear when the end of of the world is nigh! It’s my favorite time of the year.
@The44thHour - Heh yeah I haven’t posted in forever either, you’d think that’d mean I wouldn’t care what happened to the site. And yet I’d like for xanga to continue too. But I really don’t like or believe in the viability of the idea of a general purpose pay-to-blog platform. I’m just not seeing it. I’ll download my archives too and maybe blog a bit here and there before the end comes.