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<?page
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title=>About LiveJournal
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<?_code
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LJ::set_active_crumb('about');
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return;
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_code?>
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<?h1 Features h1?>
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<?p Here's an overview of the features that make LiveJournal interesting. Also, be sure to check out our <a href="./accounts.bml">Features by Account Type</a> comparison chart. p?>
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<table border="0"><tr valign="top"><td width="50%">
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<ul id="features">
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<li>Your Journal
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<ul>
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<li>Entries can include:
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<ul>
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<li>The basics: subject, text, and date.
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<li>Small pictures used to represent you.</li>
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<li><a href="/moodlist.bml">Current mood
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text/icon</a> and your current music.</li>
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<li>Polls that automatically tabulate votes.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Per-entry security lets you restrict entries to just yourself or groups
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of your friends.</li>
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<li>Comments on each entry support paging and threading (comments replying to other comments).</li>
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<li>A user profile includes:
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<ul>
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<li>A mini-biography.
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<li>A list of <a href="/interests.bml">your interests</a>, another way to
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find other users</a>.</li>
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<li>A link to our text message gateway that won't reveal your cell phone number.</li>
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<li>Who you've befriended, who's befriended you.</li>
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<li>What communities you read and participate in.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Fully integrated <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/">photo storage</a> with basic image and photo editing.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Privacy
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<ul>
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<li>You control:
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<ul>
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<li>Who can see each individual entry.</li>
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<li>Who can see your contact information.</li>
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<li>Who can <a href="/tools/textmessage.bml">text message</a> you.</li>
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<li>Who can leave comments, and whose comments are screened pending your approval.</li>
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<li>Who can participate in individual polls.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Ban other users from your journal or community.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Customization
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<ul>
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<li>Easily modify the look of your journal, using either a template-based
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style system or a higher-level customization wizard.</li>
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<li>For more control, program your own style with the <a href="/doc/s2/">S2
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programming language</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/developer/embedding.bml">Embed your
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journal</a> into your own web page.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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<td>
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<ul id="features">
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<li>Friends
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<ul>
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<li>A built-in aggregator (called the "friends view") shows all of
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your friends' entries in one page.</li>
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<li><a href="/friends/editgroups.bml">Friend groups</a> let you classify
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people for both filtering and security.</li>
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<li><a href="/syn/">Syndication</a> lets you read offsite news sources (RSS)
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just like they were other users.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Software
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/download/">Client programs</a> (for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more) let you update
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journals without opening a web browser.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Social Networking
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/community/">Communities</a> get groups of people with a shared interest together.</li>
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<li>Use the directory to find people by <a href="/directory.bml">region</a> or
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<a href="/directorysearch.bml">other criteria</a>.</li>
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<li>There are <a href="/stats.bml">over three million other users</a> to interact with.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Interoperability
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<ul>
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<li>The <a
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href="http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149">RSS
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feed</a> of every journal lets other sites/tools aggregate your content.</li>
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<li>Full Unicode support allows you to write in any language.</li>
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<li>Our site is available in <a href="/manage/siteopts.bml">many languages</a>.
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Open Process
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<ul>
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<li>Our <a href="http://www.livejournal.org/">open source code</a> means
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anyone can start their own LiveJournal-derived site.</li>
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<li>Our <a href="/community/lj_dev/">open development process</a> lets anyone
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contribute or just watch and learn.</li>
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<li><a href="/support/">Support</a> is self-managed by volunteers who care
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about the site.</li>
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<li>No advertisements, etc. (See our <a href="/legal/principles.bml">guiding principles</a>.)</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</td></tr></table>
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<?p This site was started for use amongst a small group of friends.
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The fact that it got so popular without any advertising just goes to
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show how cool it is. Try it out .... if you have any problems or
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suggestions on how it could be made better, <a
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href="/suggestions/">let us know</a>! p?>
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<?h1 Frequently Asked Questions h1?>
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<?p Some <a href="/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=about">frequently asked questions (and answers!)</a> about LiveJournal can be found on <a href="/support/faq.bml">our FAQ page</a>. p?>
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<=body
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page?><?_c
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<LJDEP>
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link: htdocs/site/contributors.bml, htdocs/support/submit.bml
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link: htdocs/paidaccounts/index.bml
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</LJDEP>
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_c?>
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