No, not this one.
Exit78 is still here and I have no plans for it to disappear anytime soon.
However, after reading a post by Lorelle VanFossen, Blog Struggles: I Need an Eraser for My Old Posts, relating to redoing old posts, I got to thinking that there were a couple of old blogs that I need to redo erase.
Early last year, I created a blog about climate change called “On Climate.” While I put a lot of effort into it and had lots of links to lots of resources, in the end, I really didn’t have that many posts – and I hadn’t posted to it for over a year. There are just too many other blogs on the subject by talented and knowledgeable people and I just didn’t want to spend the time with it that it would take to be any more meaningful than a drip in a bucket.
So I decided that”On Climate” was the first blog that was going to go.
I didn’t toss the content, though. All but one of the posts and all of the reference pages were converted into posts on this blog, each with it’s original date and time, or real darn close.
I also moved all of the comments over – all ten or twenty of them, complete with URL links and comment luv links.
Since these were all old posts, I didn’t even want to think about trying to redirect from the old location to the new. Besides, in taking the blog down, I also destroyed the database. 
Question:
Have you ever “destroyed” a blog, intentionally or otherwise?
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I have. Over the last couple of years I’ve destroyed about half a dozen blogs. they were mpostly testbeds for ideas and to try out a few SEO techniques.
There are still a couple of blogs I can’t destroy even though I never write on them and no one reads them. Funny thing that.
I’ve never built any blogs to test anything out. They’ve all been either personal blogs — this is the third of that kind — or related to something I was
obsessed aboutreally interested in. I still have a couple of inactive blogs that I do plan to keep for possible future use.Phew, you had me worried. No, I never have. Looks to be a lot of work.
Yeah, the title was intended to try to grab attention, but I put the disclaimer right at the top realizing that regular visitors might think it was Exit78. It is a bit of work, but it adds to the overall content here. It’s just a bit of blog housekeeping for me.
Hey, Mike I imagine it’s very freeing to let a blog go, as part of a natural evolution.
Yes, I did let go my previous blog that did not have the option of comments. Great decision!!
Glad this one has no plans of going!!
xo
Jannie – freeing it is and it’ll be even more so after the next one is done.
Yes, before I bought my own domain and went with WP, I had a blogspot blog and I bid a very fond goodbye to it when I launched rummuser.com
I started with blogger (aka blogspot) back in 2004, but was very dissatisfied with its limitations. I looked at a couple of other blogging platforms and, before too long, ended up with WordPress. From some of the blogs I’ve visited, it looks like blogger is improving, but it still doesn’t measure up to WordPress, in my view.
I ended up killing one of my personal blogs a few years ago… I wrote a lot of stuff that was self-incriminating and made me look like a fool.
I would probably do the same thing.
I have destroyed a couple. I have a few blogs just sitting there now. Hard to keep up.
Rose – I’ve got 4 blogs that are still “living” and another 5 that are inactive, at least one of which I want to eliminate completely, without losing the content. I’ll eventually move that content — and comments — into Exit78.
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