May 17, 2008
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People Whining about Xanga
You people need to quit complaining and whining about xanga all the time. It gets old.
You know what would happen if xanga listened to your advice?
Here are the type of complainers out there:
# 1 Xanga should not change.
Xanga adds features. People complain that xanga adds features. They say things like “If I wanted myspace or Facebook, I would go there. We don’t need that feature here on xanga.” So I guess the thinking for these people is that xanga should never change anything.
# 2 Xanga should have done this or that and they would have kept up with facebook and myspace.
These are the Monday morning quarterbacks who obviously know how to run a social network. They have great advice on what xanga should have done two years ago. These people are always brilliant. By the way, you should all bet on the Bears for SuperBowl XX. I think their chances are pretty good.
# 3 Featured Questions and Featured Posts.
These people want their questions and posts to be featured and always bag on xanga for each and every posts they feature and the questions that are on featured questions. This is because their current post is so much better than the one xanga just featured. I especially love the groups that think there is a xanga conspiracy against them or their people group. For example, “Have you noticed that xanga never features left handed hispanics that are missing one testicle?” Or “Did you notice that Xanga has never featured a person who is both Indian and a Ron Paul supporter? What are they trying to hide?”
# 4 True Badge
Does this one even need an explanation?
# 5 Ads
These are the people that block the xanga ads and will not pay for premium because it clearly doesn’t cost money to run xanga. I am sure the xanga employees will just work for free and the office space is donated and financed by some generous soul.
Comments (160)
O_O
Woah, this one has rubbed you the wrong way! I wouldn’t want to be on your bad side when the push comes to shove.
As for the complainers, it’s just soo much fun! Notice that the complainers are probaby the most loyal to Xanga….
…I can’t believe I was first….
I admit I was being a wiseacre about the featured questions for a while, but I wasn’t really complaining, haha. Whoops, I’m so vain I think this post is about me.
I didn’t know someone could block the ads without paying. Sounds like hacking, to me, and therefore illegal.
Ha. Theologian Dan ranting. Nice.
“Have you noticed that xanga never features left handed hispanics that are missing one testicle?”
This made me laugh…
I’ve never complained about any of those things.
Hey… guess what… AMEN!
If you don’t like it, and you’re not paying for it, go somewhere else. Lamer. Like LiveJournal or wherever…
Complaining about complainers……………………………… ?
Fo’ real. Word.
Oh man, you should rant more frequently. This the post you were debating about on fbook?
GREAT rant Dan!
hahaha dang, you’ve got attitude! but yeah, i agree. i think xanga’s run really well, but you can’t please everyone.
Wine, wine, wine, wine, wine…
I for one Love Xanga
You have a point about all of these things. I just joined, and yet I still see several people on here carrying on about it.
Theo’s kissing up. He wants to become part of the Xanga corporation. Little does he know, however, that Xanga is just another branch of Scientology.
Other branches include:
1. Wendys
2. Canada Dry
3. Staples
Tell ‘em Dan!
You go, Dan! See how CLEVER you are!!!
Perfectly stated. Great post!
I’d love for you put me through to the next round.
A rant by Dan, Awesome dude.
(hey, it would be nice if you voted for me for the xangan idol.)
Blessings, dude.
yay! i completely agree- im tired of the complaints
it’s ok, the complaints are mostly from those left handed one testicled hispanics. that’s why we never feature them…
they need some cheese with that whine
Here, here!
ryc: So true.
i concur! viva la xanga!
They DID feature an Indian & I subscribed to him after that!
@mayanao - Yes he was Indian, but he wasn’t a Ron Paul supporter…
They have nothing else to complain about.
They need a purpose in their life…
=)
That’s probably it.
Meh.
Tell them to go watch scandalous youtube!!!!!!!!!!!
=D
Well said!
Who’s complaining?
@john - Cause he’s from Canada.
…I do find myself thinking of something else.
There’s a certain amount of peer pressure on Xanga. If someone approves of everything Xanga does, they’re a suck-up. But if someone complains too much, others will accuse them of being a big mouth.
If you approve of this but not of that, you’re still bound to upset someone.
I guess the best thing for one to do is not say anything positive or negative. (When I say “one”, I mean me.)
The Xangateam works hard to make Xanga the best blogging community available, and it is for free.
I believe that positive and even negative feedback is appreciated but the whining is irritating!
“You people” gets pretty old too.
I have a true badge because I am a pathetic loser who has not has sex in almost two and a half years.
Do you want a cookie?
Well, you’ve gotten it out into the open now haven’t you. Now everyone is aware of the Xanga corporate conspiracy against the league left handed Hispanic Indian Ron Paul supporters who are missing one testicle. High up in the sky the Xanga masters sit in their grim skyscraper like dark lords of the universe, deliberately oppressing some of society’s least recognized special interest groups. It’s rumored that they also plan to begin censoring the Tibetan vegetarian used car salesman’s antarctic surfing club as well. When oh when will the tyranny end?
i miss classic xanga… i opt to see old format
-adieu, stace
I think its dumb to complain so much about xanga. If they don’t like it then they should go to blogger or something.
P.s. please vote for me and keep me in the running for xanga idol.
Donating cheese for the whiners
If I wanted a Facebook or Myspace look, I’d spend my money there. I love Xanga
ranting about ranting
@Don_Cauchi - Not so true on the second one
I’m very loyal to Xanga, but I don’t complain. 
is this rant aimed at Paige. I stood up for you on that post Dan! Whatever they add is fine with me and whatever they take away is fine with me. Sure I do a post every now and then I wish could be featured, but then I think maybe I don’t want to be featured cuz I would think I needed to comment back to everyone that commented.
I think the stuff that Xanga doesn’t charge for is great, people like me that just do it at their leisure for fun and to meet people from all over the world that normally would never be able to meet is something you really can’t put a price on. I trully enjoy it, Thanks Xanga
well i my complaint was not one of these, but close enough I suppose. I was nice about it and so were they.
whine to much and no one listens and besides if they were really all that bad, we would not be here..
Oh and Dan one of your biggest updates ever was a long drawn out proposal on what xanga could do to improve itself. and what they did wrong
No complaints here…I
Xanga.
Your right on with this Dan…….those that know it all or can do better….hell start your own……..if you out there have nothing better to do than complain then …….hell….fix the gas prices, change the world you know it all
It’s is very annoying. I have to agree with you Dan.
word.
None of my Xanga suscribers whine about Xanga. Does this mean I’m hanging with the wrong crowd?
You’re right, but, changes should be optional and ads should be unobtrusive. Google ads, for instance, are awesome. Moving blinking lights? Not so much.
amen! tell it like it is brother!
I think you should seriously reevaluate your life and your priorities if you have time to rag on xanga.
I must admit that I am guilty of one of those complaints. But I don’t think that I ever actually said it. I thought it in my head…..>.>
But now its just gotten old. All complaints.
I agree Dan. I agree.
i dropped some subs because of xanga whining. douchebags!
REDHAIREDCELT for XANGAN IDOL 2!!!!!!!! Pretty Please!
woo hoo!! Thanks for standing up for Xanga!!!
@madame_butterfly137 - ”I must admit that I am guilty of one of those complaints. But I don’t think that I ever actually said it. I thought it in my head…..>.>”
ditto.
Put me through to the next round of Xangan Idol part 2.
Or you should.
Or I’d like it, so you should.
hahaha….love the sarcasm!!
i must not be ‘The People’…because i so don’t give a rat’s ass what xanga is doing with mini’s, points, and who know’s (or cares) what else it is doing.
It’s just a blog.
It’s not real life.
But, good for them for, you know, wasting their time.
Way to rant Dan.
Signed,
Indian Ron Paul Supporter
CM=]
i think whiners should just leave suggestions on john’s site. blogging about how the blog site you use is starting to suck is daftly ironic.
i can honestly say that i have never once complained about any features on xanga. then again, i am not xanga-obsessed
Vote for methodElevated!
And for I_am_Twilight!
…and I have no comment to this blog, but hasn’t everybody at least thought one of these once upon a time?
@Perfect_HindSight - Classic xanga is still here (for now) you just have to choose to use.
And as long as xanga can remain simple in format like how it was when I joined four years ago, then I’ll be okay. If it was mandatory to use the new layout… I’d be very confused and lost. Especially since I use Safari and nothing ever works on Safari, including the Look & Feel section for the new layout stuff.
Change is going to happen, as long as blogging is the main part of xanga, I’ll be okay.
omg i loved #3 i was laughing sooo hardd!!
My instructions lacked certain details that entailed where I was supposed to include this, however, for what it’s worth…
I support Carax’s SEX Campaign!
Ugh, didn’t you write a number of posts about how to do things differently Dan?
This should be posted monthly, as a reminder.
“I support Carax’s SEX Campaign”
I must admit, I understand the complaints about the Featured Questions, but it’s hard to come up with very original or deeply provocative questions every couple of days.
As far as Features go, sometimes it’s inconvenient when they change things, but it’s nothing to rant about. And as far as the rest goes, I’m right there with you.
EDIT: BTW, I forgot to put in a vote for fullmetalbunny for Xangan Idol round 2 and would like to do so, if it’s not too early. Thank you.
Oh, and I mus admit, I would like one of those little True badges, but I don’t talk about it much because it’s shallow and annoying. lol.
lol. And which category do you fall under Dan?
Whenever anyone complains about anything there’s always someone else to come along and call them a whiner. But people should express their disagreements. That’s how change happens.
So if it’s what you truly believe, do blog about it, even if a hundred people have blogged it before. Why should you hold back their opinions just because other people are sick of hearing about it? Maybe that’s the only way to get action to occur, to shout so loudly that they decide to change things just to shut you up.
The only complains I don’t like are the ones from people who don’t really *mean* it. That is, when you are putting on a show to get attention on your blog by picking the ever popular controversial topic of what’s best for xanga. But everybody else, no matter which category they fall under, I think they should just keep on complaining to their heart’s content. I’ll keep reading.
I —-<3 HEART <3—– XANGA.
I chose Xanga out of myspace and friendster for oh so many reasons. And it feels so great to be a xangan….
Seriously!!!
I bitch about Xanga and won’t apologize for it. I prefer Xanga to myspace, facebook, livejournal, blogspot, nexopia, or whatever else. At the same time, if I haven’t signed up for premium yet, chances are I won’t, so quit asking. I don’t want my new private homepage because the old one worked quite well, thank you very much. I don’t give a rat’s hind end about being featured or “true”, but I’d like a little consistency and to not be bothered about the newer, bigger, better features. The reason I joined Xanga in the first place was because it is fairly uncomplicated and well organized. I just want it to stay that way.
You all can go ahead and call me a whiny bitch now
my main complaint about xanga isn’t that they’re adding features, but that their new homepages look less and less like xanga. i don’t think they shouldn’t add features, i just think they shouldn’t give up who they are in order to be more like myspace and facebook and such.
yes, #4 needs an explanation. people whine about this? or don’t whine about it? what are they saying? why do they like it/not like it? i’m so confused.
and p.s. i earned my ‘true’ badge. i like it.
Dan, you’re my hero.
Here’s my thought on complaining about Xanga: if you’re not happy then leave. And although Xanga hasn’t made me unhappy, I wouldn’t complain if they did…they have the authority to shut down your site.
I *heart* Xanga more than Myspace and Facebook.
see I get out of the loop for a while- and I miss all the fun.
haha nice rant.
what seedsower said!
yeah they should stop whining, or just get out of xanga already.
anyway, my vote is for FULLMETALBUNNY!
Its chill
haha interesting
HAHA… GREAT rant.
<33 Xanga
You’re acting pretty weird lately… perhaps you forgot to drink your tea? That’s not a rant… that’s a fuckin’ whinny crap.
@fullmetalbunny - not really.
its called firefox browser. lol
The thing I used to whine about myself, was uninteresting posts that got featured.
I tried my damnedest to get featured for a while, then I just quit.
I realized that the majority of people that read that featured, will NEVER comment on you again.
So what’s the use?
All you can really depend on,
is your friends/subscribers.
I agree. I hate how people complain. If they don’t like Xanga, then why bother using it.
I pay for Xanga and I feel if I wanna bitch I paid my dues and will if I want…
As for the badges I do not posess any and not sure how to. But they are not important to me really… I am true to those who are true to me and that is what really matters in my book! I would love to have the LIFE badge though so I am saving up for that becuz well I love Xanga enough to be a life time member…
I do participate in the featured questions when they pertain to something I may have an opinion on.. As for being a featured post I have wondered once a longgg time ago what someone needed to write about in order to be featured but then I realized almost as quickly that I didn’t care I write for me COMPLAINTS and all!
Xanga is my favorite site I do have a myspace and a couple others that i never use or rarely use but I feel safer here in Xangaland…
FUCK! Thank you. I was sick of that shit, too.
@logicalemu - I have to agree with you about the new homepage but i think it is mostly becuz I knew where everything was on the old. I switch back and forth between the two styles but 95% of the time i prefer the old way.. I do not think you are a bitch btw… just honest… My reason for joining Xanaga was also the simplicity of it over the others I was using at the time.. Even now with the new features it is still better then the rest!
Now quit whiining already!!! lol jk
dude.
i’m a right-handed half “Hispanic” who’s missing a testicle.
but in all fairness, i was featured once.
I guess I’m out of the loop…
Meh!
i’ll admit to whining a lot, but definitely not about xanga. i’m not here to be popular (and i got turned down for a true badge…lol), so i don’t see how whining would benefit me.
and yes, i’m all about doing things that only further my agenda.
You do GET that you are whining about people whining don’t you?
Only some how you feel more justified in it.
* and the beat goes on….*
LOL. i would like to meet the bums that actually have this so called “true badge”
That’s hilarious but very true. I don’t think people really realize how good they have it here on Xanga until how good their were treated is no longer.
Just my 2 cents…
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good rant. kudos
Thank you. I get tired of the whining and the begging.Â
@trunthepaige - Yes, I had to think of that post too while reading this one.
Never would you find me complain about the Xanga!! I love it. Well, then again, yes I do have ONE complaint. I am not crazy about the new changes on the private homepage. I feel lost. Otherwise it is something I will learn to get use to. Xanga ROCKS!
MySpace, Facebook? *GAG*
haha.
Personally, I’m a bit conservative. I think I’m a bit too conservative for my age. Or, i’m not sure but, my political science professor said that people my age should be super liberal about everything.
But anyways,
Let xanga builders do their thing. I like the changes they have done. I don’t know why they are comparing it to myspace and facebook too. Myspace, facebook, and xanga are three totally different things. Or, maybe myspace and facebook is a bit similar, goal wise. But yeah….
I don’t know what i’m saying…sigh…
¿Qué nos pasa aqui?
*asked in a marginally high-pitched voice*
Out of Facebook, Myspace, and Xanga…….Xanga is my favorite.
@john - I just woke up my entire household because I was laughing so hard at that comment!!! Nice, John. Nice.
ha ha best post yet.
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o_o
Nice post Dan. Well said my friend.
before the Theme’s started, i blocked the ads. My Bad. I really don’t care enough now to even try to get the code to block them.
People are stupid.
You’re so sexy when you’re angry…
Ditto =P
complaints need to be made and heard. how else would xanga get better?
lol..!
u know wat …
am new to xanga …but like it …not that i ve a lot experience with facebook and myspace ..somehow i seem to prefer xanga over them
I think #4 does need explaining cuz I have no idea what that means… (I’m not the most up-to-date.. I just post about what’s going on in my life and not worry about all the extra features and crap)
I am voting for Beli_girl for Xangan Idol.
Lol, I think the only thing I ever complained about was the fact that you can go back and make “new” posts in the past, that feature scares me
. I generally like everything xanga does
It may seem like I complain about Xanga being like myspace or facebook (which I am actually a member of, but who isn’t), but what really bugs me is the people who want it to be exactly the same as those sites. Granted it has to have some of the same features, it is a social networking site after all. But people come here to write, express opinions, etc. There are people who seem to want it to be only about making the most friends or being the most popular. And that’s what really bugs me.
I agree with you on everything but featured questions. Frankly, the featured questions suck. Most of them can be answered with one word or a sentence at most. That’s hardly a writing prompt. I don’t care if I’m featured… though I was the other day which really Really shocked the heck out of me, but regardless, I don’t care about being featured, but if they’re going to offer writing prompts, I wish they would do a better job of it or give it over to someone who’s willing to go through pick some good ones out instead whatever’s on the top of the pile.
Type of people #5: People who complain about complainers (that’s you, Dan).
Type #6: People who complain about complainers complaining about complainers (that’s me).
why IS it that xanga never featues those left-handed hispanics with one testicle?
I agree. I get tired of hearing people complain about Xanga. Ya don’t like it, go somewhere else!
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@RaVnR - lol
@HeyWhatEvers - what a wonderful, personalized message. that surely will inspire many who are touched at your concern to visit each and every site that you are soliciting without invitation.
@be_lie - just right-handed ones.
I don’t understand myspace. Like I can’t figure out how it works…Which is sad, considering that the majority of the site is owned by English-incompetent attention whores.
@shdware - Sorry Dan, for some the cup is always appearing “1/2 Empty” – and for others “1/2 Full” – My cup overflows and am positively attempting to MAKE an IMPACT – POSITIVELY on people’s lives no matter where they’ve been or come from. Your accusations, and judgments are incorrect. Developing relationships, typically starts with an introduction,
(including CONTACT INFO) which being new on xanga, and blogging my 1st time here, this has been the unfortunate negative conversation, I’ve had to waste my time with, and obviously yours as well? This is my 2nd apology, and I guess I should expect a 3rd Negative Return Comment, and criticism from your Dan? God Bless you in your efforts, whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish in your writings?
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@RaVnR - Ha, my thoughts exactly.
Dan, I don’t want to bash you too quickly on this, because I don’t read the same subscribers you do. (I’ve only commented on Xanga once, and that was a month or two
ago, so I don’t know how much more Xanga commenting has gone on since.
My subscribers tend not to talk about such issues for the most part, so
perhaps that’s why I’m so taken aback at your post.) And I agree that some complaining has gotten out of control. But starting the post with “You people” and then doing a blanket bash on 5 different categories is rather sloppy. You’re mixing the innocent with the guilty here.
I bought premium…for life…so they should be pretty happy, right?
I just ignore those fools. Everyone has a right to complain. It’s just healthier to get it out of one’s system.
I like how xanga is improving. I really got into it once again when the featured questions came about. Recently I’m discovering xanga has a whole wide community. I hope to be part of that, too. I’m debating whether or not I should get premium though since I’ve been a member for quite some time. It might be worth it if you have a large audience is it?
LMFAO. oh dan. :]
the last one especially made me think
But whining is good for the soul
Besides, given my myriad DNS names, server availability, programming and overall web design, development, deployment and administration experience, I’ll still not switch out (even though I tried once) because no matter how much, or how little effort the XangaTeam put into this place, it’s the people that make it and the ones I love most will never be found dead on those others places mentioned (well, actually, you’d probably have to kill them to find them there)
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with stating issues you have with a community that you’re and active, loyal part of. I mean, who are they making these changes for if not the users? Sure, some people complain about stupid things, but if enough people have an issue with a particular trend or feature on the site I’m sure the Xanga team will take notice. Yes a lot of the complainers are annoying, but a lot of them just really love Xanga and either want to see it become even better than it already is, or else don’t want to see it go the way of the Dodo.
Hi i am leaving you a comment! ^-^
Nice
I have nothing to say that hasn’t already been said, sooo….here is a mini.
There’s constructive criticism that could be effective if written the right way and directed to the right people. And then there’s the whining and mean-spirited attacks on Xanga that are just unnecessary.
Took the words right off of my fingertips!!!
@Amarisa - Hahahaha. Hi there neighbor. As you can tell, I have been shown the light and I am now in the process of reading some of Dan’s posts. I can hear the sound of your voice btw.

GO BEARS!
It has already been stated in quite a variety of ways, but I agree with people stating their opinions. The manner in which they state their opinions, I find, is where things can go awry. I remember reading some comments when the whole True vs. Not True debate came up and from that I learned what is true in real life, emotions can run high. I believe that the reason why things can get out of hand here is, of course, that we are using this kind of medium, we are not face to face. I seriously doubt people would say face to face what they type and therein lies the problem. One ought to take responsibility for what one types just as one would for what one says.
Hahaha good post!
I have been known to complain a time or two, but really it’s just a silly waste of time. I love Xanga no matter changes they make/don’t make.
Bahahahahaha!! I couldn’t have said it better myself……
See, now I’ve had my little xanga rant (and there may have been aspects of the above complaints within it)…but I think that you’re missing a category, or maybe a sub-category of all of them:
People who like xanga so much, they want to see it be as good as it can be. Clearly that means feedback. It’s inevitable that people will comment on changes that go on around them. Sometimes change = good. Sometimes it doesn’t.
And most complaints are certainly gut anger reactions and petulant whining. But some of them are valid, well thought out ideas. I’ve read ideas from bloggers about improving xanga that I thought were pretty good.
I’m sure the xanga team appreciates that feedback. Any business owner would (even if they have to sift through a bunch of b.s. complaints first).
Oh, and I have no problem with the ads. When I’m ready to do without them I’ll pay for the privilege.
@pnklace - interesting way of putting it
@coffeeiv -
^ What he said.
@DigiCity - That’s just stating the obvious.
the one testicle part made me laugh a little too loud. i am now sure my boss will have a little talk with me regarding efficient use of my office time
(but well worth it!)
What is true badge?
PS: you missed number 6. whiners that whine about other whiners. Hhaha. just kidding love your work, glad your back.
I hear ya.!
Haha kudos, Dan.
This one heightened my respect for you.