In August of 2007, Wired complained: “The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people’s identities on the internet.” Days later, Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, ...

What happens when (a) the user base of a social platform includes a large number of fan creators, LGBTQ people, and support communities; and (b) that platform starts banning content it deems ...

This post is part of Mashable's You're Old Week. Break through the haze of nostalgia with us and see what holds up, what disappoints, and what got better with time. The internet of the mid-aughts ...

In other words, it’s fandom’s most scurrilous gossip site, combining amateur investigative reporting with a kind of early warning system against Internet trolls and drama. Fandom_Wank is 10 years old, ...

Since its inception in 2007, Tumblr has been famously (perhaps infamously) lax about its policies when it comes to NSFW posts. But in an effort to clean up its image in the name of creating “the most ...

Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary ...

From the outside, Tumblr looks like a mess. As a platform that has become the main hub for people who like fanart, fanfiction and talking about ships, Tumblr has gained a reputation for creators being ...

Editor's note: On Thursday, LiveJournal apologized for the mass deletion and said many of the journals would be restored Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent ...