One of the lesser-known tales in the whole mythological, selectively PR'ed history of LiveJournal/SixApart is the story of Freevote.com.
(Don't bother looking for Freevote online... it doesn't exist anymore.)
Freevote.com was,
as Brad Fitzpatrick describes it, "my first web project back in like 1998 . . . where I learned so much about Perl,
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Links to the code and to the 3rd party client tools have been buried recently, though you can find the links if you dig deeply enough into the site. (Good luck, new users!)
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As for styles, it definitely interferes with new lj-code sites when many of the latest styles are proprietary to SixApart.
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*puts on some Snog - Corporate Slave*
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Seems one of the few that has lasted is Yahoo, and they did some of the same things.
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Sad this.
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