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LiveJournal

LiveJournal

LiveJournal

2004

15

April

LiveJournal was founded.

2005

01

January

Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.

2007

01

May

LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities.

2007

01

December

LiveJournal was acquired by SUP Media.

2010

01

October

LiveJournal was blocked in Kazakhstan by court order due to blogs containing extremist content.

2011

01

January

LiveJournal lost 8.2 million users in just a year.

2016

01

December

LiveJournal moved to servers hosted in Russia.

2017

01

April

LiveJournal changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law.

2017

01

April

LiveJournal eliminated the ability of paid contributors to stop ads being shown to their readers.

LiveJournal significantly modified its terms of use, making the service subject to Russian law.