August 5, 2013

• A Transitional Post - My Thoughts

   

  We are in a state of Transition here on Xanga.

  Many are wondering when we will launch the upgrade, what is happening, etc...

   

  Well, here are my thoughts on the situation at hand:

   

  1. @thexangateam is hard at work getting things ready for the launch.   There are a lot of details being worked out still, but as per the last post from John - they are in the final stretch.
  2. DON'T shut down your account.   If you contributed to the fundraiser or not - remember that all accounts have been migrated to 2.0.   The only difference is if your entire content(Blog) has been moved.   IF you end up shutting your account down, all your friends and subscriptions will be lost.    There will not be a way anymore for an account to be retrieved to reactivate once it's been shut down.
  3. being that John mentioned that they negotiated with the hosting facility for an extension of 30 days - my expectation is that at this time we have until the end of August. Now they could ask for another extension, but we don't know if that will be approved or not.   So, it's a step by step process.   There's a bit of limited flexibility on this note.
  4. due to the following two facts  - don't expect archives to be available to anyone at this time:
  1. fundraising campaign over
  2. and site being migrated over to 2.0
  5. With this in mind - if you haven't archived your site after a little over 2 months of warnings - then it's a bit too late.  Personally I understand that there was some major PR and marketing issues on how Xanga Team handled this - I hope I was able to alleviate some of the communication issues, and as things move forward there are already discussions on how to improve communication for the site.
  6. We should be receiving an update from Xanga Team as to when the actual transition to 2.0 will happen.  Until then, I expect Xanga 1.0 to run "In Tandem" - meaning that this particular version of Xanga will continue running while 2.0 is in its final stages of being set up.   Blog and share to your hearts content.
  7. see my previous post about 'What should be doing during this time of transition' here - http://edlives.xanga.com/774945677/a-transition-period---what-can-we-do-during-this-time/
  8. Remember that dealing with a transition of this magnitude takes a serious amount of work.  Let's throw some positive vibes to the Xanga Team for working on this major upgrade.

   

  Try to take same time to relax.   After all, the construction workers are hard at work.   Personally, I'll have an ice tea and be in my Hammock.  

   

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