- Zahingir Alam Last Update: March 31, 2017

About Xanga

Xanga  is a  popular website.Which is based in New York City.It  hosts  photo-blogs, weblogs, and social networking profiles. It is operated by Xanga.com.There are many page and link of this website in popular social networking site like facebook

Origins-
This sites  ranking has continually declined from 2007..ButXanga began in the year of  1999 as a site for sharing book and music reviews.Now it become a most popular weblog community.

Core features-
Every members get a “Xanga Site”, a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog,an audioblog a videoblog, ,asocial networking profile and a “Pulse” (mini-blog),  . Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings (groups).It has many features designed to enhance safety and privacy – and when you know how to use them they work best ! Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the safety feature.So it provide the user with a great feature with safety.

Weblog-
It  added weblogs to all of its Sites on November 5, 2000 at first.On December 8, 2000 Comments were added, along with the concept of “eProps”, which a user can give to another user’s entry as a sign of how much he or she has enjoyed the entry. Two “eProps” is the maximum amount that can be given. (By default, “2 eProps” is selected on the comment page.)

Photoblog-
Before the spring of 2006, it’s photo features were focused on enabling photo uploads within weblog posts. On May 1, 2001 it’s first started offering photo uploading . Actually,the photo uploading was available only to premium members, and was limited to 20 MB of storage (although this was not enforced). Then, ,Xanga overhauled its photo system to increase picture quality and picture size, as well as to increase capacity for the system overall on April 7, 2005. This was followed, on August 5, 2005, with the beta release of a new Photo Manager that allowed users to more easily edit and view their photos.

Videoblog-
It’s video blog become very popular after it’s videoblogs were officially launched by it’s employee Chris Choi’s dog Gromit   with a video featuring On August 9, 2006

Audioblog-

After about a month of beta testing on September 29, 2006, its Audio Blogs was launched

Pulse-
It’s introduced “Pulse”, which was described as a “carefree miniblog”on February 22, 2007. A Pulse message can also be uploaded by cell phone.

Profile-
It’s supported limited profiles as early as its launch in 2000. Profiles were revamped on February 1, 2004, to hold more information and offer better email security and control.

Privacy and safety-
It’s supports several privacy features that allow users to restrict or control access to their sites.Protected Posting allows users to restrict access of each post to a list of specified friends. Xanga Classic protected lists can hold only up to 10 members; you must obtain Xanga Premium in order to get a protected list of unlimited size.User Blocking allows users to block certain people from commenting or subscribing to their sites.

Tracking-
With Xanga Footprints, participating Xanga users can see the usernames of signed-in visitors to their site.It’s supports an opt-out for this feature if visitors are not signed in, then the Country or State is shown instead.

Flags-
Our developed a flagging system that allow users to easily report sites that violate Xanga’s terms of use (such as sites that contain Threats of Physical Harm or Underage Nudity). Flagged sites are reviewed by Xanga’s employees and shut down as appropriate.

Ratings-
To address the issue of clean content, Xanga has created a rating system that, among other things, limits access to age-inappropriate material. Xanga SafeBrowse, also known as Xanga Ratings, allows people to set their Xanga sites to one of five levels.

SIGNIN

You can sign into your Xanga account right here:

* http://xanga.com/wp-login.php

How to make an Xanga account and how to create a blog

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