You are not alone in thinking Evite, the incredibly outdated invitation service your one pitiable friend still insists on using to remind you to come to her crappy "I Got a Divorce Tequila Extravaganza!" or whatever, is one of the worst sites on the Internet. The interface is terrible. The functionality is terrible. The obtrusive ads, load time, and aesthetic are all terrible. Even Time magazine thinks it's terrible, and when a magazine aimed at your parents thinks something that theoretically should be "cutting edge" is anything but, that's pretty much the kiss of death.

So why does Evite continue to log more than 5 million users each month? Because most people probably couldn't name an alternative service with a gun to their head. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams is trying to change that! To that end, Abrams has set up two websites, evitealternatives.com and evitesucks.com, to get you to stop using Evite.

Abrams' motives aren't entirely altruistic—the sites are also intended to plug his own Evite competitor, Socializr, but he genuinely doesn't seem to care what site you use so long as it's not Evite. "Evite really sucks," he told us over the phone. "It's 10 years old. It was sold to Barry Diller and IAC during the dot com crash, and it really hasn't improved noticeably since then. It has nothing you want and everything you don't need."

Worse, says Abrams, is that IAC lawyers repeatedly meddled in his attempts to launch a rival site, often for totally bogus reasons. "Last year, IAC sent me threatening letters alleging that Socializr was infringing upon the 'look and feel' of Evite. First of all, it wasn't remotely true. Second of all, if you could actually sue for copying the 'look and feel' of a website, I'd have sued MySpace when I was working on Friendster. But you can't. It's bunk."

In short, not only does Evite suck, but it's regulated by a bunch of asshole corporate overlords. Let the non-Evite party revolution begin!