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Xanga has been criticized for giving its users too ''much'' flexibility, including the use of arbitrary JavaScript. This feature was used to mount a [[denial-of-service attack]] on [[Slashdot]]'s search page in late 2004, causing intermittent errors.<ref>http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/28/161214/43</ref>

People who do not have a Xanga account cannot leave comments to a Xanga blog. Currently, Xanga does not have a plan to enable anonymous comments. Some users have worked around this problem using a third party Flooble [[Chatterbox]], and others have implemented javascript that will let outsiders comment on individual entries (found [http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=powerscripts#guestcomment here]), but the question of outside comments appended to specific blog entries remains largely unsolved. It should be noted that while some Xangans consider this an undesirable restriction (lock out of nonmembers), others consider it a benefit (exclusiveness and obstacles to spam bots).

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