Blog-City killed my old blog

by Suw on May 8, 2006

Blog-City, the blog host I used for the second incarnation of Chocolate and Vodka (after Blogger went all crap) have summarily killed my archives. I have the data, but no way to import it into Blogware, or to make it publicly available, so I am a bit peeved that a chunk of my online past can just vanish.
I think this is a real shame. Storage is cheap, and I personally feel a bit like blogs should be forever unless the owner decides to delete, but obviously Blog-City wanted to clear off some space on their servers and I am sure that they would take the line that as I was no longer paying for the service (I paid for the last two years, even though I wasn't using it), and as the blog was dormant they have the right to delete it. I guess they probably tried to contact me but didn't get a response. Who knows. I never got the email, which may just mean that an old address was on file. Probably all my fault.
Still.
Ok… so any geeks here wanna take a stab at converting the old Blog-City archives into something that's importable by Blogware?

Anonymous May 8, 2006 at 4:31 pm

“Ok… so any geeks here wanna take a stab at converting the old Blog-City archives into something that's importable by Blogware?”
I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. I'll try to remember to ask next time I see you on IRC … or ping me on IM when you have time.

Anonymous May 8, 2006 at 4:34 pm

I'm on IRC now. Ping me an email addy, and I'll email you an archive so you can see what they've done with it. 😀

Anonymous May 8, 2006 at 4:45 pm

Any chance we could get a look at the format the data is saved in? It should be easy enough to convert.

Anonymous May 9, 2006 at 5:43 am

dossy@panoptic.com — let 'er rip.

Anonymous February 8, 2007 at 10:58 am

If you ask support we keep regular backups. You can probably get it back.
Abandoned blogs are removed, we do every to email you and remind you to blog just 6 times a year….any more than that and we'd be in trouble for spamming you.

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