Happy Update 4/8/2017: SportsBlog has restored all the old posts! I’ll gradually be exporting them here, but you can click the link in the sidebar to read on SportsBlog until I do.
I discovered today that SportsBlog has deleted almost all of my posts from the old blog. This happened in the last 48 hours, with no warning. I’m not entirely surprised, considering the way things had been going in the month or two before I moved the site here.
Fortunately, I had many of my posts backed up to my computer, and I retrieved most of the rest through archive.org and Google caching. About 10% of the posts are gone forever, though, mostly from the first few months of the blog.
Everything is in disarray, since the backups didn’t all capture images, embedded videos, etc. I will eventually upload everything here, but it will take quite a bit of time because nothing can be imported directly. It’s going to have to wait until after Worlds. It’ll happen gradually.
It’s possible that everything will magically come back in a few days, since the disappearance seems to be the result of a massive site restructuring on their end. Regardless, I’m not trusting SportsBlog to archive everything until I have time to export, which was the previous plan. I’m upset, obviously, and sorry that you guys can’t go back and read my older work, at least for the next couple of months. But it’s not dead forever, and it will come back.
On the bright side, I’m close to done with the next part of my Worlds field guide, so that will be up tonight!
How sad, I know you’ll be all right. Gradually the old posts will be available here and everyone will be able to read them. It may take time, but people deserve to read your work.
Thank you for everything and good luck.
Thanks for the support! SportsBlog got back to me and promised they’d restore the old posts, although it will take a few days. Regardless, I’d rather have them here, where I’m certain they won’t disappear.
(: You remain an amazing writer. If SportsBlog stays in the deep recesses, it will be eclipsed by what you do next. When I changed my phone company plan they erased all my saved messages; some from people I will never hear again. Thanks for reminding me to remain vigilant with back-ups. Worlds! Looking forward to your work. Can’t tweet.