It was announced today. The thing myself and many others knew was coming. Yahoo!360 is more or less shutting down. You can read the crap they posted about it here. I know a lot of us former 360 users have already gone "indie" but I can't help but feel like I've lost an old friend with his announcement. 360 is where I met and was befriended by so many wonderful people. It feels like the end of era. I began blogging back in the summer of '05 when Husband was deployed overseas. Looking back I never thought my simple way of staying in touch with him would lead me where I am today. It's been fabulous though. I can only hope now that I won't loose these wonderful people just because yahoo couldn't be bothered to work on the best idea they ever had.
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I hope you don't mind that I am reposting what I wrote on Daisy's blog.
I have met a lot of really wonderful people (present company included) here on 360. I hope we all have the energy and desire to keep in touch. I suppose I kinda "checked out" of 360 a while ago, for several reasons... but I have visited often to read about what my friends are doing and thinking. It really is too bad that Yahoo didn't want to invest in a product like this which, as Daisy said, "had something that the other networking sites didn't." Au Revoir 360.
I will be keeping up with your new blog, but that is kind of a given. I like knowing what is going on with you two! I hope all your 360 friends keep in touch through other means.
Oh, and the not recognizing thing...I've been there, don't feel bad.
The only real reason why I even signed up for 360 was to keep tabs on you, so I'm not mourning it's soon-to-be passing as much. I will say that it WAS a nice blog-client and I appreciated the lack of advertising bullshit on it.
But, I think blogspot provides just as much fun, options and un-marketed freedom, so I think we'll all manage. It sucks that Yahoo has to keep changing the way it does things... but I guess that'sjust the nature of the beast.
I'm working on a 360 diaspora blog feed. In fact It's why I came here just now - to grab your rss.
Hey - can you turn off the word verification if you're gonna have comment moderation on?
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