Xanga passed in July 2013, having lived fifteen years as the blog that felt like a journal. Born in 1998, it offered a page and a feed. Users wrote in public. At its peak it claimed millions of bloggers. The server lease was expensive. The company could not afford to renew. In May 2013 a fundraiser was launched: sixty thousand dollars by mid-July or the site would shut down. By July the campaign had raised sixty-three percent. The deadline was extended. The outcome is unclear. Some say it survived as Xanga 2.0. Some say it did not. He is survived by the memory of a time when the web had room for journals, and by the conviction that sometimes sixty thousand dollars is the difference between survival and silence.