GreatestJournal
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GreatestJournal.com is a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. As of 22 July 2006, there were almost 1.5 million users and communities. It was founded on 2 September 2003 as an alternative to LiveJournal, offering for free many of the features which LiveJournal offers only to paying users, such as extra icons, voice posts, and unlimited styles. GreatestJournal operates on LiveJournal's open source server software, but with add-ons such as phpBB forums, video hosting, and a photo gallery called GJPix. The community is completely governed by its members; its motto is for us, by us. More than 700,000 users joined in 2004 in which the site had almost no downtime thanks to a robust setup of about a dozen database and web servers spread over two datacenters. In February 2005 one of the biggest ISPs in the world, ThePlanet, started sponsoring the site's hosting. On 20 June 2005, the site surpassed 1,000,000 users. On 23 August 2005 a new video section was launched.
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Much like LiveJournal, DeadJournal and Blurty, users of the service are predominantly female. Females comprise 74.8% of the service, outweighing males at a ratio of nearly 3:1.
These are site usage statistics, as of July 22, 2006:
- 1,493,239 accounts have been created.
- 145,685 accounts are currently active in some way.
- 863,807 accounts have been posted to at least once.
- 67,635 accounts have been posted to in the past 30 days.
- 32,028 accounts have been posted to in the past seven days.
- 9,465 accounts have been posted to in the past 24 hours.
GreatestJournal is most frequently used in the following nations (based on users who declared a nation of residence):
- United States: 419,457 accounts
- United Kingdom: 38,299 accounts
- Canada: 24,047 accounts
- Australia: 6,177 accounts
- Japan: 5,183 accounts
- Finland: 2,544 accounts
- Scotland: 2,245 accounts
Other countries listing greater than 1,000 users are: Philippines, Russia, Germany, Ireland, France, Spain and Mexico.
For complete and current statistics, see the GreatestJournal Stats page.
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All of the following are free.
- 2000 user icons
- Mood themes and custom styles
- All users can customise mood themes and layouts
- Short URL
- A subdomain (username.greatestjournal.com) for all userpages.
- Private messaging
- Part of the phpBB forum.
- 1GB free photo hosting in the photo gallery
- Including hotlinking
- Videos'
