Crud! Blogvoices is closing.
January 23, 2001 8:01 AM Subscribe
Blogvoices really did something nice, maybe blogger will adapt the technology? Hmm?
posted by tiaka at 8:05 AM on January 23, 2001
im really bummed out too...i wonder if there is any chance that pyra would adopt blogvoices...
*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
posted by will at 8:12 AM on January 23, 2001
I know what you are going to say: "yeah smart ass *original* idea so why dont you do it?". But frankly I do not have the money or contacts to get this kind of thing going. I can spare the time and will happily help out wherever possible. Ill plan it if neccesary but lets do something ok?
Lets face it, Blogger Pro is still on the horizon and may be a bit on the expensive side (I live in South Africa, one dollar is made up of eight of my Rands, ouch!).
Drop me a line if you have any ideas, remember the source code is mentioned as being free to use. Lets use the damned stuff.
posted by rapidsa at 8:31 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by Sean Meade at 8:44 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by jmcnally at 8:54 AM on January 23, 2001
It reminds me of the Taxi episode...number 6, I think, where Bobby decides he's a failure because he gave himself 3 years to land an acting job. If he didn't do it in 3 years, he'd quit...and a promise to yourself is so important, don't you think?
posted by ivey at 9:21 AM on January 23, 2001
I'd bet that a lot of people are going to take this as a good reason to make the switch to Greymatter, which has comments built into the functionality.
posted by Dreama at 9:22 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by jkottke at 9:41 AM on January 23, 2001
People will be able to host their own (if they're capable) and with it being open, hopefully people will create small BlogVoices servers, serving their friends and their friends friends.
posted by cCranium at 9:45 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by tiaka at 9:57 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by riffola at 10:11 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 10:46 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by bradlands at 10:59 AM on January 23, 2001
posted by jpoulos at 11:24 AM on January 23, 2001
I will really miss this service. Thanks Chris. Is Chris a MeFi member?
posted by thirteen at 11:31 AM on January 23, 2001
If you'll pardon the self-linkage, we've been testing Sextant by running a blogger-powered Agora over on our site.
The big plus is that, even though the pages live on their server, you can customize their "look" as much as you want-- you upload a template to them that they build your pages from. They've got a whole mess of various tags that you can play around with to get the discussion pages to work the way you want.
Some minuses include somewhat bewildering documentation (at least the last time I checked), and the register / login process will definitely lose some people who might have jumped in on a BlogVoices thread.
I'm not sure if Civilution is opening Project Sextant up to the public at this point, or even if their company is still active, but I've found Sextant to be a workable alternative to BlogVoices.
posted by jbushnell at 12:38 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by dhartung at 1:04 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by xiffix at 3:03 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by riffola at 4:37 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by will at 4:48 PM on January 23, 2001
As stated in an update message, I am discussing the situation with a “friendly face” that may help salvage the service. Regardless of whether or not this works out, BlogVoices will continue to thrive as an open source project, free to anyone.
Stay tuned to www.blogvoices.com for the latest developments and again --- thank you so much for your support.
[Side note: PLEASE do not harass Hostrocket.com. Despite the situation, they have been very understanding and courteous]
Best regards,
You know who.
posted by chrish at 5:02 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by evixir at 9:24 PM on January 23, 2001
posted by endorwitch at 1:06 AM on January 24, 2001
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