Xanga are having problems with spam overloading their servers:

http://thexangateam.xanga.com/771268436/fighting-splogs-and-some-proposed-tweaks-to-the-r%e2%80%a6/

While they seem clueless about how to tackle the issue of spam (hint: hidden fields for bots, custom questions, block spam IPs) the one nice part of it is they are *asking* their members if it's okay to make changes.

Quite a refreshing difference to other companies who just ram through any changes they think will make them more efficient (hint: Google, we really don't give a shit about Google+, so enough already).

Maybe someone here will be kind enough to let the Xanga people know what to do. Or, alternatively, stop pinging them quite so hard. ;)