# LiveJournal

7 Hacker News commenters recommended LiveJournal and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for fine-grained post privacy and a feed without algorithmic optimization. Critics say it was sold to Russian owners and turned into spam.

## Why people recommend it

- Nostalgia for the early social web (3 comments): "the wonderfully chaotic mess that was Myspace, livejournal, geocities" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023750)) "remember Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, AO3, etc.?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512303)) "That's why we went from MySpace to LiveJournal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763505))

## What people warn about

- Sold to Russian interests, spam (2 comments): "It's too bad it got turned into some kind of Russian spam site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429905)) "And Livejournal got sold to Russian interests too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747434))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Tumblr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tumblr.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.livejournal.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "LiveJournal", https://hackerapproved.com/p/livejournal/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).