When the big banner titled 'blogcontrol*' was installed on every myblogsite blog, it was the last straw that broke my 'myblogsite' back. Time to up and leave.
I have sent the support team and F Marte and E Lee (apparently in the corporate office)daily emails reminding them of the monstrocity that has become their website. (Myblogsite then have the cheek to invite me to create a myphotoalbum????)
Add to that just around this time, their spam filters, comments controls failed and I had to close off comments entirely and sit through the night deleting close to 240 spam comments advertising all shades of black of society.
I decided to move to Typepad. Should be easy right? Generate an export file, transfer it over to Typepad and boom? No, fizzle wheezz pop, more like! The file that myblogsite generates is not in an easily convertable format.
Only a manual move was the alternative. Shooting myself in the head seemed to be the easier thing to do.
I pulled out Blogjet (http://www.blogjet.com) It enables import of all your posts, date and time intact into your PC/harddrive. (A month's full working trial version is ideal, but I liked it so much, I just bought is after playing around for an hour) :) Then export it to the new site. Setting up the blog connections is easy. A well thought out piece of software. It was tedious but easy. Only downside is that comments cannot be imported/exported in this manner. Either lose them, or peg onto the relevant post manually.
Having set up the typepad blog, I came across a fellow blogger who introduced me to Wordpress. I liked, I jumped and am now setting up a blog in Wordpress.
A big note of thanks to Myblogsite.com for seriously screwing up their bloghosting. Without this happening I would not have searched nor found the likes of Typepad or Wordpress.
Anybody having problems with myblogsite.com? Don't even bother. Lock it up and pulverise the key.
RIP: Myblogsite.com
My blog links:
'Old' memorykeeper at Myblogsite: http://memorykeeper.myblogsite.com
'New' memorykeeper at Typepad: http://memorykeeper.blogs.com
Hope the above helps anyone who find themselves in a similar myblogsite HELL!!
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