25.5.07

Comparison of Livejournal and Blogger

Recently, I moved my blog from Livejournal to Blogger. I maybe wanted to distract myself a bit, I thought Blogger had some interesting features and I also liked Google.
For now, I'm quite content with my blog at Blogger (except for that I haven't had much time to post recently), though in some things Livejournal may have been better.
  • Livejournal was much more profiled toward diaries; there was the "memories" feature, user groups, "friends" and stuff like that; one can mostly emulate it in Blogger as well, though.
  • With Livejournal, I had feeling that there were almost no new features added. And those added were mostly designed only to suscribers - that irritated me greatly; on the other hand Blogger has no subscribing and money is raised by other means.
  • Contrastingly, in Blogger (and other Google products as well), there are new features being added constantly. Not that I would need it, but I like experimenting.
  • There is more that you can do with your blog in Blogger - one can customize it freely; on the other hand, in Livejournal there were many more (and prettier) templates.
  • Blogger is a little bit buggy, seems to me; but I may reasonably expect bugs to be fixed quickly.
  • The overall design of Livejournal looked better.
  • Blogger account may be the same as Google account.

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