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I've been on the out with the idea of online journals. Among other reasons, the whole dynamic tends to bring out commentwhore tendencies in everyone and it's a miserable existence I don't want to continue. I just want to put up stuff without thought for the response it may or may not generate. I want to find some sort of journal publishing site that doesn't include comments. Or friend lists. Or god help us, viewing stats.

I guess what I'm saying is I want a regular webpage. That said, I'm not sure what options there are between springing for a domain name and designing it (very badly) myself, and like, GeoCities. Anyone have any leads?

I'm pretty sure most online journal / weblog things have the option somewhere to switch comments off / keep entries private / etc.

If you're looking for a site that specifically doesn't feature even the option to have comments then I guess that's another story.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's typical. Technically I could start doing this to my pre-existing journal, but it feels wrong somehow, like I'm squelching the people's right to air their views on the quesadilla I had for dinner.* Really, as long as the friend list was absent, I could just go disable comments and everything would be peachy.

*The fact that I even have this feeling is pretty telling. There's a temptation to leave open some way of contacting me, but all it does is allow me to hold on to my vain hope.

Just start a new thing on Blogspot or somewhere with comments flicked off from the get-go.

Or I mean I guess you could figure out what a Wordpress is and how you um press words with it or whatever the hell but that always looked like way too much fuckin' around to my lookin' at it.

I had a Bravenet site (well I still have it but haven't updated it for a year since I stuck up those Super Mario comics), and it was miles better than Geocities to use, I mean, by like hundreds of miles. Continental distances, in fact. It combined ease with actually looking pretty damn decent and not taking six hundred years to load and actually being user friendly. If you want to host images just make a Photobucket account too and stick all the images in there and use those URLs on the website. If you're just going for text though you'd have plenty of room. I had to do a little basic HTML for some extra pages but it was about as simplistic as it could be as it was just text I had written (rants mostly). In fact I think it had an HTML editor put into the thing somewhere or other if I remember correctly (I could be quite wrong, though).

EDIT: I actually haven't logged onto it in two and half years actually so it might be better than I remember (or worse?)

blogspot treats me pretty well. And if you've read fifthfiend's horrible blog, I mean, it's obvious they are pretty much ok with whatever meandering drivel you want to put up.

It's true!

My problem with facebook/friendster/myspace/ect. is the fact that they are basically datamining operations for the corporate marketing machine and probably also the government.

I think I saw it once, and the top entry was actually pretty thoughtful. Maybe I just happened to catch it on a good day, I dunno.

This might work, thanks. I'll try dicking around with it when I have time on the weekend and see what I can come up with.

Oh. Ok. Yes, let's lavish MORE praise unto Fithfiend. 'Oh Fifthfiend your blog is so good, I love crepes too! etc etc on and on'

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Yeah it's actually alright.