blogHi! development

Update: blogHi stays open. However this feature remains implemented; if you ever need it.

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Dear blogHi community,

This post is about an imminent closure of blogHi, please read it.

I have just received an e-mail from a new user, trying to explain something that puzzles most blog hosting websites out there: why most people abandon their blog in the first days after opening it:

“My opinion most people abandon the blog before they use it is simply because they can't figure out what how to operate it.. I am ome of rhem...” (thank you, Frank for your message!)

This led me thinking how much would blogHi benefit from a clean and simple wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki), and how much sense would it make to create one. Then I thought again that I won't probably have the time to install this wiki, and more important maintain it. And this is a real pity. In fact there are so many things that the community could benefit from, and it's a real pity that I am not doing anything about it. All in all this is a lack of service to you, the blogHi community, and it's not something that I am proud of.

some monetary aspects now:

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During one of our rutine SPAM comments check, we accidentally removed some legitimate comments from the blogs hosted with us. We are working on restoring these comments back to life from our daily backups. If however some comments are still not present after our restore procedures, this means they are lost (they came in after the daily backup was done). In such a case, restoring these comments is impossible.

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