That is one of the problems with Six Apart hosted stuff. It is a battle to migrate away because you can't access your uploads directly. I also don't think Vox allows for post exports.
It doesn't make sense to me that users should be prevented from exporting or downloading their uploaded content. 37 Signals makes that option available so if you decide to leave, you are not held hostage.
@phoneboy well, not sure what you refer to, but livejournal at least is exportable, tho it is more because it had been done so ages before they were made part of 6A
I'd been thinking about making the move too. I installed Wordpress a long time ago but never did anything with it. Now I want to but can't figure out how to migrate my content from Vox. How did you do it Leo? I'd REALLY appreciate knowing as I can find NOTHING about it on the web. If anyone else knows, I'm all ears!
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back to wordpress! why the move?
2 years, 2 months ago by atmasphere
That is one of the problems with Six Apart hosted stuff. It is a battle to migrate away because you can't access your uploads directly. I also don't think Vox allows for post exports.
2 years, 2 months ago by pauljacobson
Any hosted app has that problem. Hmm, maybe I should think about doing something similar.
2 years, 2 months ago by phoneboy
Looks great! And it reminds me - how's Ozzy doing?
2 years, 2 months ago by kasnj
That's exactly why I always host my own blog.
2 years, 2 months ago by glas
It doesn't make sense to me that users should be prevented from exporting or downloading their uploaded content. 37 Signals makes that option available so if you decide to leave, you are not held hostage.
2 years, 2 months ago by pauljacobson
@phoneboy well, not sure what you refer to, but livejournal at least is exportable, tho it is more because it had been done so ages before they were made part of 6A
2 years, 2 months ago by silpol
LiveJournal, even though it's controlled by SixApart. Very good API behind it, though.
2 years, 2 months ago by strredwolf
I'd been thinking about making the move too. I installed Wordpress a long time ago but never did anything with it. Now I want to but can't figure out how to migrate my content from Vox. How did you do it Leo? I'd REALLY appreciate knowing as I can find NOTHING about it on the web. If anyone else knows, I'm all ears!
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