lj-user ana mentioned it in her homepage’s other journal, ages ago. I’ve long since stopped visiting her site, but the interest in having a writing hub online, rather than just composing stuff in html and uploading it to my website (what I was doing from 1998 to 2000; though hardly as frequently – maybe 2-5 entries a month) is still very appealing to me.

The community aspect, with comments and friend’s lists, etc, was initially off-putting, but now I rather dig the sort of community setting, even though my journal is really for my own reference.