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LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account. LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account.


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LiveJournal is a website where some Internet users keep a journal or diary. It is one of many sites that come under the term blog, or weblog. The software running the site is open source. What distinguishes LiveJournal from other blog sites is the "Friends page", a list of the most recent posts from people a user has added to their "Friends list" -- this turns LiveJournal into a community of interconnected weblogs.

LiveJournal was started by Brad Fitzpatrick. As of October 2002, 732,465 accounts had been created, of which about quarter of a million had been updated at some point in the last month . Between them, these users make about 120 thousand individual posts per day.

LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account.

Because LiveJournal is an open source project, many other communities have been designed based off the original. However, these, apart from DeadJournal, tend to be unstable and short-lived. These include, but are not limited to:

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