Find Any LiveJournal Username with WhatsMyName App
LiveJournal was where a generation kept a diary, and a great many of those journals are still online. It is also a platform whose ownership and jurisdiction changed underneath its users, which is worth knowing before you decide what to do about an old account. WhatsMyName App checks a LiveJournal handle alongside 731 other platforms in one search.
Platform: Blogging, archive · The dominant blogging platform of the 2000s
Search LiveJournal Username FreeWhat Is LiveJournal and Why Username Searches Matter
LiveJournal launched in 1999 and became the centre of online journalling, fan communities and a large amount of the early social web. Journals live at username.livejournal.com and many remain publicly readable, complete with comment threads, friends lists and years of daily entries written by people who assumed the audience was a few dozen friends.
Ownership moved to Russian hands in 2007, when Six Apart sold the service to SUP Media. The change that mattered came later. In December 2016 the servers were moved from California to Russia with no announcement, and in April 2017 the terms of service were rewritten to conform to Russian law. One clause, Article 9.2.7, prohibits posting political solicitation materials without the platform's permission. A wave of users deleted their accounts at that point.
So there are two different reasons to look up a LiveJournal handle now. The ordinary one is archaeological: an old journal is often the most detailed record of a person's late teens and twenties that exists anywhere. The other is practical, because the content of a still-live journal now sits under a different legal regime than the one it was written in.
How LiveJournal Usernames Work
Handles form the journal address at username.livejournal.com, and public journals load without an account. Handles from the platform's peak tend to be distinctive in the way early-2000s names were, which makes them unusually good anchors when you are matching one identity to another.
Communities used the same namespace as personal journals, so a handle may belong to a group rather than a person. That is worth checking before assuming a result identifies an individual, since some of the largest LiveJournal handles were shared spaces with thousands of members.
A large amount of fandom activity lived here before moving to Tumblr and to AO3. That migration means the same person frequently holds a LiveJournal handle, a Tumblr under a related name, and an AO3 account under something else again, with the LiveJournal one usually being the oldest and least guarded of the three.
- Journal address format: username.livejournal.com
- Public journals load without signing in
- Communities share the same namespace as personal journals
- Handles from the 2000s are distinctive and make strong anchors
- Much fandom activity later moved to Tumblr and AO3
How to Search a LiveJournal Username with WhatsMyName App
No account, no install, no cost. Results in under 90 seconds.
Go to WhatsMyName App
Open whatsmynameapp.us in any browser. Nothing to install.
Enter the handle
Type the LiveJournal username, or the name you remember using, into the search bar.
Run the search
Click Search. All 732 platforms are checked in parallel, including LiveJournal.
Find the LiveJournal result
Results stream in as each check completes. Look for the LiveJournal entry showing confirmed or not found.
Open the journal
A confirmed result links to the journal. Check whether it is a personal journal or a community before drawing conclusions about who it belongs to.
Check the era cluster
Look at the Myspace, Tumblr and Blogger results in the same scan. People of that generation usually held several accounts under related names.
Try period variations
If nothing resolves, try the underscore and numeral variants that were common at the time. Two or three attempts take seconds.
What WhatsMyName App Shows for LiveJournal
A confirmed result links to a journal that still exists. Public ones can be extraordinarily detailed, since entries were written as diary posts rather than as public statements, and the comment threads name other handles from the same circle.
A not-found result may mean the journal was deleted, and a noticeable number were deleted deliberately in 2017 when the terms of service changed. It does not tell you the account never existed, which is why the archive is worth a look if the handle matters.
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Open WhatsMyName AppAfter Finding a LiveJournal Account
For tracing an identity, an old LiveJournal is among the richest finds available. Daily entries, a friends list that maps a social circle, and comment threads full of other handles amount to a far more connected picture than any modern profile provides. Treat community journals separately, since a handle there identifies a group rather than a person.
For your own old account, the jurisdiction question is a real one rather than a theoretical one. The servers moved to Russia in December 2016 and the terms were rewritten in 2017 to conform to Russian law. Whatever is still published under your name sits under that regime, and deleting or locking a journal you no longer maintain is a reasonable response.
Either way, start by finding out whether it is still there. Most people who had a LiveJournal have not looked at it in fifteen years and have no idea whether it is public, which is the part worth resolving before deciding anything else.
- Friends lists map an entire social circle, not just one person
- Community handles identify groups, not individuals
- Servers moved to Russia in 2016 and terms changed in 2017
- Find out whether your old journal is still public before anything else
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The other survivor of the same era, and the two accounts were very often held by the same person.
Where a large share of LiveJournal's fandom communities relocated, usually under related handles.
The other long running blogging host of the period, worth checking for the same name.
People who reuse a handle on LiveJournal tend to reuse it on these too:
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Frequently Asked Questions about LiveJournal Username Search
Is LiveJournal still online?
Yes. Journals remain at username.livejournal.com and many public ones still load without signing in, complete with archives and comment threads.
Who owns LiveJournal now?
It passed to Russian ownership in 2007 when Six Apart sold it to SUP Media. The servers were moved from California to Russia in December 2016, and the terms of service were rewritten in April 2017 to conform to Russian law.
Why did people delete their LiveJournals in 2017?
Because of the terms of service rewrite that followed the server move, including a clause prohibiting political solicitation materials without permission. A wave of users closed their accounts at that point.
How do I find my old LiveJournal?
Search the handle you remember in WhatsMyName App. If nothing resolves, try the underscore and numeral variants common at the time, and check the Myspace and Tumblr results in the same scan.
Is a LiveJournal handle a person or a community?
It can be either, because communities used the same namespace as personal journals. Open the journal and check before assuming a result identifies an individual.
Is searching LiveJournal handles legal?
Should I delete an old LiveJournal?
That is your call, but it is an informed one only after you know what is still published there and under what terms. The jurisdiction changed after the 2016 server move, so the account is not sitting where it was written.
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