Building a Blog Community

Installing Live Journal

[AAnnAArchy]

I was wondering if anyone had installed LiveJournal on their server. And problems? Tips? I have a few thousand people I'd like to offer blogs to, but I haven't decided on LiveJournal for sure. I bought PMachine, but it doesn't seem flexible enough for a decent-sized community. I'd like to give free access for public blogs and charge a nominal fee for private, search engine blocked blogs.

Any thoughts/opinions?

[HughMungus]

Each livejournal user must pay to use livejournal or get a signup code from a current LJ user.

Why LJ instead of one of the others?

[AAnnAArchy]

<<Each livejournal user must pay to use livejournal or get a signup code from a current LJ user.>>

This will be using LJ's code on my own server, so LJ itself won't be involved.

<<Why LJ instead of one of the others?>>

Well, earlier today I found out that PMachine can be hacked to make it more of the community I'm wanting to build, but I still like the looks of LJ better. I know PMachine is supposed to be technically a much better program; however, I don't know that I need it to be better, but I do know I want it to *look* better. Decisions, decisions...

I'm thinking that I'll probably want to give PMachine a shot first, especially since it comes with support and LJ doesn't.