and communications with the users. On October 20, 2008, the site celebrated its tenth anniversary online. Open Diary 6.0, a broad upgrade to the site, was released on February 23, 2009. This version included a new interface, new navigation, picture storage for Plus users, entry tagging, and several more new features. On May 29, 2009, an additional version of the site optimized for mobile devices was released. As of spring 2012, the site's helpdesk software was taken down due to lack of funds, leaving the administrators fewer tools to communicate with users and provide service. On January 28, 2014 it was announced that Open Diary was shutting down within two weeks. On February 7, 2014 the site went offline at 12:02 AM EST. The associated Facebook page and Twitter account were also taken offline at the same time. On October 19, 2017, the Open Diary Outage Board (ODOB) posted that the site went into testing mode for a new service. In its FAQ page, Open Diary promises to start a new subscription-only mode this year (according to the ODOB, on New Year's Eve (in another post of the same day)). Old members are promised to be notified once the site is ready to serve diarists. According to the site, all diary entries from when the site shut down have been preserved. Open Diary re-launched publicly on January 26, 2018, offering a reclaim mechanism for ex-members to regain access to their diaries. Open Diary now functions as a subscription website, with the first thirty days free and then a $3.99 (USD) per month subscription after that. Features Open Diary allowed users to create diaries that are public, private, or friends-only. Within a diary, individual entries were either public, private, or friends-only, if the level of overall diary privacy allowed it. Users were able to post an unlimited number of entries in their diaries. Diary entries on the site accepted user comments, which were linked back to the noter's diary. Notes left on diaries were either set to public or private (only visible to the entry author), and diaries were set to accept anonymous notes from people outside of Open Diary, or from members only. The Diary Circles feature provided a place where diary entries of a similar nature could be posted together. These circles were linked to the Open Diary Boards, a message board component that was added to the site