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The site is also greatly used by [[Fanfic|fanfiction]] writers, possibly due to the comments section, which makes each entry something like a miniature forum. As such, '''LJ''' is home to many communities, which discuss everything from knitting to politics. Mainly, though, it's fanfiction. A ''lot'' of fanfiction. '''LiveJournal''' seems to specialize in writing communities, of which it has hundreds, most of them fanfiction. [[Livejournal Roleplay|Roleplaying]] communities were also popular (most have since moved to a [[Spin-Off]], Dreamwidth), all of them basically fanfiction.
'''LJ''''s popularity has dwindled in recent years, with the advent of first [[Myspace]], then [[Facebook]], and then [[Tumblr]], which attracted a lot of the slash fangirls who previously used '''Livejournal'''. It also garnered a reputation for [[Bowdlerize|banning journals because of "objectionable content"]] (particularly [[The Purge|Strikethrough '07]]) which violates the Terms of Service; this is called TOS'ing. '''LiveJournal''' has TOS'd some of its most popular journals, like Fandom_Wank and scans_daily. Major changes to the site interface in December '11 drove many fandom users, particularly roleplayers, [[Think of the Advertisers!|off the site]] as well.
'''LJ''''s journal system is open source, so a lot of clones have sprung up over the years, and (in some cases) subsequently perished; survivors include [http://www.insanejournal.com/ InsaneJournal], [http://www.deadjournal.com/ DeadJournal], [http://www.journalfen.net/ JournalFen] (now mostly dead after a server collapse) and [http://www.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth]. Since its founding, JournalFen was a haven for [https://web.archive.org/web/20120410033549/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank Fandom_Wank] (Archived link), which existed largely to point out '''LiveJournal'''' drama. Scans_daily [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/ moved to InsaneJournal] and then [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/profile to Dreamwidth].
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