Editing LiveJournal (section)

===Contributors===
Some areas of LiveJournal rely heavily on user contributions and volunteer efforts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/site/contributors.bml |title=LiveJournal Contributors |publisher=Livejournal.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522003051/http://www.livejournal.com/site/contributors.bml |archive-date=2010-05-22 }}</ref> In particular, the LiveJournal Support area is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Similarly, the website is translated into other languages by volunteers, although this effort is running down due to a perceived lack of involvement from the LiveJournal administration.

The development of the LiveJournal software has seen extensive volunteer involvement in the past. In February and March 2003, there was an effort, nicknamed the ''Bazaar'', to boost volunteer performance by offering money in return for "wanted" enhancements or improvements.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/493562.html |title=Announcement of the Bazaar in LiveJournal Development |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831115301/http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/493562.html |archive-date=2006-08-31 }}</ref> The Bazaar was intended to follow a regular monthly pay-out scheme, but it ended up paying out only once, after which it was neglected by the management, and shut down one year later.

Nowadays, voluntary contributions to the software are considered for inclusion less and less as the company has acquired more and more paid employees who focus on the organization's commercial interests. This has led to the formation of several [[fork (software)|forks]], many of which introduce new features that users would like to see, especially features that are brought up repeatedly in LiveJournal's own ''suggestions'' journal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/profile |title=LiveJournal.com |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502042253/http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/profile |archive-date=2010-05-02 }}</ref>

In some cases legal and administrative concerns have led LiveJournal to prohibit some people from volunteering.