Comments on: So Much for VoxPort – WordPress.Com Imports Vox Blogs Directly!

By: LeendaDLL

LeendaDLL — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:26:00 +0000

i'm on backup burnout right now so i'll wait for your follow up post.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:07:00 +0000

Nope, that's fine posting something about the tool. if people can use it, so much the better.I just posted a post about backing up audio files using a little tool I wrote a while ago. I hadn't had time to modify it to also do the same with pictures, but I might have some time this weekend to do so – if it works, it could potentially save you lots of time backing up your photos. If you think you can hold off and not touch it this weekend, I'll let you know by Tuesday if I get it working…

By: LeendaDLL

LeendaDLL — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:27:00 +0000

thanks again for the exporter tool info. turns out i'm not the only one who can't access the typepad exporter. Typepad doesn't have a vox importer but your tool is one way around that… so you I hope you don't mind that I reblogged it. (if you do mind, let me know and I'll take it down).

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:42:00 +0000

Happy to help! One more note – self-hosted blogs are apparently outside of the "community", which sort of defeats the point of being in a blogging network.

By: LeendaDLL

LeendaDLL — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:39:00 +0000

i'd be lost without you. well, i'm still lost… but i'd be MORE lost without you.thanks!

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:02:00 +0000

Self-hosted means you have your own website with a copy of the wordpress software running on it. If WordPress hosts it, it's a lot like Vox: you have a community, a limited number of templates/styles to choose from for look/feel, and upload limits. The basic blog is free. Unlike Vox, you can actually pay money (annually) to increase storage space, add custom CSS, custom domain names, remove ads, etc.If you do your own hosting, you own it all, so you can pretty much do what you want with it:1) You have a much bigger array of templates to choose from for look and feel of your blog, and once you install one, you can always modify the CSS as you like to tweak it2) PLUGINS – All kinds of plugins are available to do everything under the sun – see full list here3) No upload limits of any kind beyond what your web hosting provider imposes (which are usually so astronomically large that no sane person will ever hit them)Drawbacks to self-hosting are of course the fact that you're on your own – no community to auto-promote your posts, you handle the upgrades to everything yourself (which is actually really easy nowadays, a couple clicks and you're done), and a lack of someone to bitch at when the servers don't go down, spam doesn't make it onto your blog, etc :-)A more detailed explanation about the pros and cons of each choice is here.

By: LeendaDLL

LeendaDLL — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:42:00 +0000

thanks. I've been designing a page. Just used your tool to make extra backups to my desktop.What's the advantage of self-hosted versus not? Heck, what's the difference!?

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:10:00 +0000

Sorry, I've been sort of incommunicado for work.The tool is still there, but I haven't really touched it since the WordPress folks got their stuff in place. If you want to use it again, go here:URL of tool: http://rossotron.com/public/voxport-tool/username: voxporttestpassword: t35tVOXt00lFYI, they now have a plugin for importing into a self-hosted WordPress blog, too, so you don't have to go through WordPress.com before you go to a self-hosted blog.

By: LeendaDLL

LeendaDLL — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:54:00 +0000

are you still out there? and, is the tool?i liked that your tool allowed me to create backups without automatically adding them to another site.since some of us are worried about the future of vox, i was thinking it would nice to run a backup. unfortunately, I didn't save the emails were you told me how to hit the beta.

By: Steve Betz

Steve Betz — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:37:00 +0000

I think Marco(a) — the deterioration I see is the increase in the number of spam comments and spam postings. Not to mention all the creepy porn. I used to be able to find interesting people and topics by going to the "Explore" page… now it's just a wasteland — and you'd think SA would have some way to clean that up/prevent it.