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Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice
marmoset writes "Citing the high costs of running the free service, performance
concerns, and health problems, Dave Winer closed down the weblogs.com
hosting service without any prior notice. As many as 3000 sites are now inacessible, and
the users who want to transfer their data elsewhere have to ask
(politely) for it to be exported. As might be expected, reactions range from understanding
to
enraged.
Netcraft has a report, too."
So, netcraft confirmed that *weblogs are dying?
I always thought blogs were blobs anyways.
I can forsee quite a few people complaining about this in their weblogs.
Oh...wait...
I just saw this over at Halley's place and went to Tom's blog and read Dave's post on Tom's private weblog. Tom is traveling back from Mexico, not sure if he's landed yet, but I doubt that the first thing on his mind is how hard Dave Winer wants his old Manilla users to blow him in this special "one-time" offer.
Good riddance! I don't understand how one could possibly read such crap.
I scratched my nose a little and then depressed the 'W' key, knowing full well the corresponding character would henceforth be displayed in its full glory!
An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
Having your blogging service totally shut you out without notice finally seems like the perfect thing to blog about.
- sm
...being found guilty, I sentence you to a public blogging.
Anyone seen my jagged little pill?
Jesus saves and backs up nightly!
It's as though a couple of thousand babbling idiots were suddenly silenced.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
Not just any Blog Hosting Service.
Dave Winer's blog hosting service.
Coool!
From the Wired article: "I just have my fingers crossed that my girlfriend gets her blog back," said software programmer Tom Gortell. "She feels like someone just sucked out her brains. I don't get it, it's just an online journal, right? But she feels like her entire life has been stolen."
The guy works as a programmer and he never told her to make backups? And then he tells Wired that he doesn't get why she is upset. Somebody better e-mail him the number of a good florist.
But seriously, he should have told her to make backups. Free service. You get what you pay for. What more can you say?
People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
At least LiveJournal didn't shut down without notice. Otherwise we'd all be up tonight digging mass graves for disfranchised teenagers all over the world.
As might be expected, reactions range from understanding to enraged.
and we shall show our "understanding" by having their site posted and slashdotting their site...
my blog
No no, Slashdot is still up. :P
I have the n'sync-with-a-pony dream all the time. I should start a blog about it.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
These are blogs. The owners are the ones reading them.
Locking out the owners and only allowing guests would probably cut the bandwidth usage by about 95%.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
" It's as though a couple of thousand babbling idiots were suddenly silenced."
Congress gets hit by a meteor.
the typical masturbatory grousing
Dude - you have bird porn on your blog?
Those masturbating grouse are really cool man!
Cute, but no cigar. I actually own my own domain, pay for my own webhosting, installed my own weblog software, and manage it myself (with daily backups). I also pay for my own bandwith, which is part of why I feel little need to point the ravening hordes of /. at it. Frankly, it's nothing but a personal sit eof no interest to anyone but me and my friends, full of things like 'LOL, Van Helsing was the worst movie I've seen in ages! You *have* to buy me the DVD!', and 'Oooh, this shiny new gadget came out, I lust after it.'. If you're not allready among the small crowd who stops by there once a week or so to see if I'm still alive, I doubt you'd have any interest in it. Ergo, no linky. I *do* take offense with the people who try to ram their blog down everyone's throats. I don't care about your fluffy kitty, and you don't care about my 'review' of Bubba Ho-Tep, so I don't read your stuff, and you don't read mine. The web's a big place, pick your content. What I take issue with is the attitude many folks cop about blogs, when, really, no one is hijacking your freakin' browser and forcing you to read about what I had for breakfast. And if you do accidentally stumble across it, hey, your browser has all these nifty buttons, like the bookmark list, the back button, even a full address bar! So many ways to escape from the horrible tedium of my rambling! Go for it!
Oh, and just as an aside, yeah, my username's real common, Mr. or Ms. 'geek4ever'. Real smooth of you to notice... say, you ever hear the story about the Pot? Seems he called the Kettle black.
"Two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first one." - Albert Einstein
I don't understand the level of hostility against blogs. No one's putting a gun to your head and making you read them.
Apparantly you haven't tried to use Google lately.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Maybe people wouldn't be angry at him if he mentioned the details of these extenuating circumstances, but then again why should he publish the personal details of his life?
There's a blogging joke here somewhere but I just can't find it, dammit.
The real question is, where are bloggers going to go to whine about this????
I belong to the ______ generation.
That's an unnecessary "or."
Suppose I've got terabytes of data...
Well, in that case you shoulda kept it on floppies or something.
Please insert disk 457,982,221,010 of 695,763,100,218 to continue...
Slashdot?
The site does seem kinda slow from the Whiney Blogger effect.
Yes, blogs do have their uses - say, group collaboration. FLOSS. But there are a fascinating number of them that are just self-important rant-books with no real direction.
I used to run a business but it began to eat into my "judge people on Slashdot" time.
Seems more like parallel murder to me, since it all happened at once...
You must really suck at using Google. I've never ended up on a blog while looking for something else...
Pogs are over? Oh man!
I drank what? -- Socrates
When dealing with audio blogs narrated, you can write it as "oggs"