LiveJournal

LiveJournal is an online blogging and community platform where users can create personal journals and join communities to share stories and interests. It provides tools for content creation, discovery through feeds and tags, and offers various paid services and virtual gifts for users.

LiveJournal is a well-established blogging platform that allows users to create and share content, similar to Medium. It offers a rich text editor for creating posts, a feed for content discovery, and community features like comments. While it has a monetization model, it's based on 'tokens' and 'service packages' rather than a direct subscription model for premium content access and writer revenue share as described for Medium. It also supports communities (publications), user profiles, tags, mobile access, and social sharing. However, explicit reader engagement metrics beyond basic comments are not clearly highlighted, nor is an email newsletter integration.