Well the whole idea is that Xanga couldn’t afford to operate as a free blogging community anymore (not enough people where premium to sustain the costs of free accounts). So now it’s a pay-to-blog site. You may visit any Xangan’s site and read them for free (unless they themselves put a sign-in lock on their site), but in order to HAVE a blog of your own and create entries/posts/etc you have to pay a subscription fee of $48 a year. You can still log in and recover your archive of all the posts and photos you had in the old Xanga, but unless you pay the subscription to upgrade to the new Xanga you won’t have a visible site for everyone to see/visit anymore and you can’t write blogs. This was always known and it was displayed/explained in the fundraiser (I also discussed it in previous posts that the only way to write was to pay). Sucks that it’s not free, but charging was the only way the company could survive. The ads on the side of the page and the too-few premium members just couldn’t bring in enough currency to sustain running billions of free blogs. The only reason I’m still active is because I contributed to the fundraiser by signing up for a one-year subscription. I wanted to give myself time to see what I would decide.