About Yaplog!

Yaplog is a Japanese blogging community powered by GMO. Yaplog is by far one of the most popular Japanese blogging sites on the internet, the top currently being ameba.jp. Yaplog has a great community, with beautiful pre-made blog designs (See picture), and the ability to customize your own with HTML, CSS, and 2 other options. It is very easy (That is, if you know Japanese!) to maintain and edit your site. They are over 100,000 other people using Yaplog also, so it's not hard to find some interesting new topics to check out. Speaking of which, they also have on the main site a list of some blogs and blog posts, they are really good examples of some templates you can get/code for your site. Yaplog also has the ability to friend others, post widgets, move modules*, and possibly many other things if you explore a little. Yaplog is my top choice for learning Japanese or English, as there is many English people on this site too. In addition, it is going to shutdown on at the end of January 2020.

A few downsides to Yaplog, it has a few ads here and there. In the blogs you get 2 spots where google ads go, but it's actually pretty unnoticable, and their ads are not false advertising. The only ones I see if for a game you can join and play and an advertisement for Toy Story 2 and Alice in Wonderland coming to DVD. Another downside, they do NOT have any English translation. Sure there are English people like me who use the site, but they themselves do not have a translation. This may change in the future, I'm hoping. Another thing, the customizable blogs are very hard, you have to code everything in without ruining their code. It's very confusing to navigate through your code because there is actually japanese coding! I was planning to code mine, but that was just a shocker. If you do plan on coding your layout, I wish you the best of luck and suggest you use Google translator if you need help.

Sound interesting? You can explore around and see if you like what you see here: http://www.yaplog.jp/

(*The ad modules can't be moved)