blogHi! development

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:

On the 4th of November, blogHi will be 2 years old. It has operational costs of around $300 per month. Until now, the website operational costs were covered in the range of 40-50% by adsense, and the rest comes from my personal pocket (in the hope that the website will become profitable). If by that date I still won't be able to cover the operational costs of the website, the website will have to be shut down.

I'm also considering selling the whole website, but I have no time to launch in complex blogexplosion-like sales. I'm open to ideas here. Actually, I am open to any kind of ideas. To be honest, I hate as much as you do the deadline-tone of this post.

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It has been great to have you guys here! Thank you for chosing blogHi!

Calin
blogHi.com