Livejournal is my blog site of choice, but I literally know of absolutely no one else that has one. =0[
I tried Blogger/Blogspot, but just didn't like their page customization options, so I'm sticking with Livejournal, conflabit.
On January 6, 2009, it was announced that LiveJournal had laid off some of their San Francisco-based employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia.[8][9]
On April 22, 2009, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev opened his own blog on the LiveJournal service.[10][11]
I think that should explain why noone uses it anymore ;)
I use an open source blog that I custom to hades and back and host it myself
that way I can config it however I need it to be and do custom layouts as well