May 31, 2013
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Alas, poor XANGA! I knew you well...
I'm sure most of you heard the news, right? Xanga will be shutting down soon if their $60K fundraiser goes south. Unfortunately, for "the house of X," I'm broke. As much as I would love to pump some funding into the relaunch, I can't afford it. My premium subscription was already a bit of a financial stretch, to be completely honest.
I'm thinking it would probably be cheaper to sell the site. Someone's gotta be interested in a site with a faithful following of dedicated bloggers. Not many sites start off with built in users. Companies merge and get brought out all the time. Why not blogging sites, too? Of course, it just wouldn't be the same.
I feel really bad about this because this site seemed like it would always be around.
This blog gave me an outlet. It was a nice and private place to rant, rave, bitch, and complain while archiving some important milestones in my life. I blogged about my first job as an office temp. I blogged about my time as an intern for a film and video company. Xanga was around when I was going to art school full time. It was around during heartbreaks and cheerful times. This entire thing is filled with my life. I hate to see it shut down for good because it's a part of me. I grew up here, for shit's sake.
I feel like I'm being evicted.
I suppose I'll make an official entry very soon, one that will be in the same vein as my "Who am I and where to find me" post from last year. It'll be something nice, I guess... There's no reason why we can't keep in touch. In the meantime, I'm going to archive over 10 years worth of blogging. Never thought I would have to use that feature, but I guess the day is here...
...and it's a very sad day for me.
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I feel sad, and I've only been here slightly over a year. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I'd invested 10 years of myself here.
@reginasikora - Yeah, it's a very crappy feeling. I'll get over it. Hopefully sooner than later. I'm usually an optimist, but I doubt the fundraiser will reach it's goal. Maybe they will, but... I'm not holding my breath.
Wow, 10 years! That's impressive. I was here for 8, though only as TheyCallHerEcho88 since 2011 or so. The first six years I was Llama 215, which was all friends-locked because I started it when I was in high school, and my mom would read it and yell at me for swearing... fun times. I still can't believe it's not going to be here anymore if they don't raise the money! I didn't think that could even really happen to a website. I mean, MoonPrincess.com is still here, for goodness sake...
Servers cost money. Add in the maintenance and administration duties and... Well, it kinda... Ummmm... Shit, why does it cost $60K, anyway? I suppose moving an entire blogging site over to Word Press is expensive. It might just be the way they're doing it. We're talking about a massive data transfer. Of course, I'm just guessing here. The process is way over my tiny brain... and wallet.
Moon Princess, huh? Don't underestimate the power of geekery, m'dear. Geeks can keep anything alive.
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