With Yahoo 360 closing their blog system, I've tested several options yesterday and today.
1) I've moved all the original Yahoo 360 postings to the new Yahoo Profile page. However, this is not really functional as a blog. It is not searchable, there are no keywords left, some of the photos were lost in the transition in blog entries that had multiple photos, and it is not easy to navigate to older postings. There doesn't seem to be a way to get straight to the blog either. I will leave everything here as an archive but I will not post new blog entries here.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
2) Yahoo 360 allows one to move the 360 blog to other systems. I tried Wordpress but it doesn't allow me to move all the old posts. I have too much old information so I can't move everything. I'm also having trouble with the download/upload which isn't working properly. I will delete the Wordpress blog I started. It has nice features but it isn't going to be a good replacement for Yahoo 360 due to the size limits. So that's not an option.
3) I'm going to try to download the old Yahoo 360 material to Blogspot. So far I'm not having any luck with this. I uploaded to Yahoo Profile ok but it looks as if Blogspot only will upload .xml files and Yahoo 360 downloads material as txt files. The incompatable formats are a problem, but I'll continue to attempt this.
4) It looks like the best option for now is to just have one blog at Blogspot. So effective tomorrow I will no longer post messages to Yahoo 360 and my only blog will be the one located at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
I am very sorry for the problems this will cause Blog readers but I can't make anything else work except Blogspot. We'll have the old material archived at Yahoo Profiles but Blogspot will be the only blog from now on.
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Old Yahoo 360 blog archived at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
8 comments:
Your blogger posts are where I'm catching your posts now. Remind me please, why were you keeping a mirror site on Yahoo anyway?
Sorry Jane that you are having all this trouble. I like wordpress for the pages they allow to do. Have you looked into typepad?
No, Jean, I have not. Yahoo 360 apparently only offers transfers to their own Yahoo Profile and to Wordpress. No point into checking into something that will be like Blogspot--not compatible.
Sue, I used Yahoo 360 because it had the best functionality at the time (I've been blogging for a very long time). People got used to it and I have 10 times the readers at Yahoo 360 than at Blogspot.
Keep plugging away Jane, we'll all be here when you get your blog the way you want it. Meanwhile, blogspot it is. Take care.
Thanks, Madonna. After the last two frustrating days, I appreciate it!
I'd follow you anywhere kiddo.....
Thank you, Margaret. That is very kind of you!
Jane, waving form CH
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