Losing my Vox

I was very surprised and saddened a few days ago to learn of Vox's imminent demise. Comments later.

So what am I doing about it? I have started (actually, started using) a blog I had at Wordpress,com. You can come over and see me at my Wordpress.com blog. It looks stable--I have to work on its appearance and pick a different theme, but that's not going to take long, once I take the time to actually get to work on it.

Also, remember that I have two other blogs that I cross-post to/with. I have my blog at Efx3.com, and then there's always my Blogger blog. That's the first blog I ever started, way back when, before Modblog and Efx2 and Efx2blogs. Like the Energizer bunny, it's still going. Credit where it's due.

I wrote my first Vox post on the last day of 2007, in response to one of the many Efx2 meltdowns/freezeups/f***ups. It was a nice place to be. Some of the other Efx'ers migrated here. And then Efx2 came back to life, and a fine community broke up even more.

I saw good friends here. Thought we'd always be able to get together and chat and share pictures. But Six Apart, the people who operate Vox, had other ideas.

In their letter to us, Six Apart didn't answer one simple, basic question about the death of Vox: Why? Since it's left for me to speculate on, my guess is that they simply don't want to operate a free service any more. So why don't you move over to a free Type Pad account. But unless you opt for a Type Pad Micro account, you apparently can expect to pay at least $8.95 per month for the privilege. No, thank you.

I transferred all my Vox stuff over to drdog.wordpress,com, and that will be my new home to replace Vox.

To repeat, this is not my only blogsite. I will continue posting at Efx3.com and Blogger, using the tried-and-true cut-and-paste method. In fact, I usually compose at Blogger and keep my "works in progress" over there. I plan to post one of them later today.

But not at Vox. I am losing my Vox. Sad ... especially because it didn't have to happen. But the powers that be at Six Apart decreed that it did.