I just finished a major literary project: Today, I copied the last of my Efx2 and Efx2blogs posts over to Blogger.
Done. Finally. I have 338 posts over there, and I had been copying them one-by-one over the last few months. The links and photos don't work, but those can be fixed later. My objective was to copy my wordy creations before Efx2blogs goes dark.
Things are pretty dark at Efx2blogs, anyway. Just a few people are posting there, and the posts are few and far between. Whenever I logged in, it said I was the only person online. But I felt under the gun: The Efx2blogs.com domain registration will lapse late this spring. With so few people using it, I won't be surprised if the whole thing just vanishes under the waves for good. Glub, glub.
The magic date when the domain name lapses is May 18. That's according to a post made on March 28, 2009, by the guy who used to run the place. He rode in to the rescue just after efx3.com was created, causing mass confusion among bloggers who wondered aloud "Should I say, or should I go?" It really hurt the nice little community we had over there--some stayed, some went, and others found other things to do.
As I suspected, he hasn't been heard from since.
Why copy them one-by-one to Blogger? First, Efx2 never had a way you could archive your posts. Even Modblog, for all the problems I remember, was able to back up your posts--I know because I archived them to my hard drive. Someday, I'll start adding those to Blogger, too. Same with a few Vox posts that weren't cross-posted. But no rush. They aren't going to vanish in a few weeks.
Why Blogger? Because it seems to be the standard. You can export Blogger blogs and import them into Efx3. Would that duplicate some posts that are already there? Don't know--I have to ask Welsh Pixie. Nonetheless, the files will be there.
By the way... does Efx3 have an archive feature?
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