July 8, 2013
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Questions that XangaTeam (STILL) needs to address
This is a list of questions I have asked (repeatedly in some cases) which the XangaTeam has not responded to. Others have responded that my questions are good ones and they want answers too…. so here’s a compiled list of them, from the various XangaTeam pages they’ve appeared at.
(A) I have a few Xanga Accounts that I started for various other reasons (poetry, hidden thoughts, that sort of thing.) I’ve long since lost passwords and even what Email address they were attached to. What’s the likelihood of me getting the password now so I can archive those sites before the switch over?
(B) My user name “JulieMillerFan” is already in use at WordPress. (It’s my account) When you shift over from here to there…. how will that now present itself? Will I be XangaJulieMillerFan? JulieMillerFan2? JulieMillerFan@#$^#$@#? What’s the plan on this?(C) when you transfer from Xanga to WordPress…. will our Xanga Email / Password be the same? Just how is that going to work, esp. on secondary accounts wherein I no longer have the password / email addy available to me any more?
(D) Are PRIVATE or PROTECTED posts here on Xanga still going to be PRIVATE…. on WordPress?
(E) I already did the WordPress.xml transfer from my Xanga archive here to WordPress…. is that going to mess things up for my PAID account pledges to Xanga’s support? Just how is that going to work for those of us who had pre-existing WordPress accounts? Will the account pledges apply to our EXISTING WordPress accounts?
(F) What about the subject or title headers? Will they import over to WordPress as well? And what of the original date of publication? Is it going to show that I posted 1,000 posts in a single day or is it going to follow the original flow of time?
NOTE: I did the XML transfer myself, all dates and subject titles transferred over, as well as all comments originally mad. That said… I’m still curious what’s gonna happen when XangaTeam does the transfer… and I am sure that everyone is is probably curious as well.
(G) Internal links….. I have long tried to help my readers grasp a concept by linking to a previous post dealing with the topic. Now that Xanga is shuffling over to WordPress…. what happens to all those unusable links?
(H) Pictures — do they follow over with the original post / account? So pictures I posted up years ago… will they now carry over into my new blog, or will the picture links be “broken”….
(I) Audio links… same as above.
(J) As someone pointed out, your archive of my posts links me back to YOUR archive… of my posts…. which means that in less than a month this archive will no longer function because you’ll no longer be here?!?!?!? Yes or no. Please give a straight answer. Do we need to cut and paste EACH AND EVERY BLOG WE’VE WRITTEN to a secondary word processing program and save them ourselves? Or will you somehow keep the Xanga Archives open even after you’ve shut the doors on Xanga?
Really, guys…. it’s been nearly 3 weeks now since your last posted update… can we get some information please?
Comments (3)
Many of these questions have already been answered:A) – email help@xanga.net to address your password questions- you’d still be juliemillerfan.xanga.com – wordpress is a different site, Xanga is just using the wordpress engine to power Xanga.C) – yes, your e-mail/password will still be the sameD) – your privacy settings on the posts will remain as they are in xanga 1.0 when they are migrated over to xanga 2.0.E) – see answerF) – all posts will transfer over with title and settings to 2.0 as they are on the current 1.0 platformG-I) – Internal links should link correctly during the transitionJ) – no you don’t need to cut/paste each blog post. resubmit to update your archives, and download all archive files.Hope that answers your questions.
@edlives - Ed, (?) if you check your “archives” when you link to it… it takes back ONLINE to Xanga’s archive. Meaning…. when Xanga dies… your archive…. dies… likewise? Because it’s all tied back to their mainframe.As for my (A) questions… I have several accounts I no longer have access to because I’ve lost passwords AND the Email accounts they were tied to…. so … how do I get access now so that I can even begin to archive them? I can offer some proof that they are me… but… the email addresses they were tied to are long gone and so are whatever passwords I once used…. so how do I gain access to them?Likewise… since I already had “JulieMillerFan” on WordPress…. when the changeover happens… there will now be TWO JulieMillerFan accounts…. so what happens? That’s the gist of my question.As for photos, videos & audio…. so all UPLOADED audio / video / photo files will transfer? ALL of them? Really? Cause the gist of Xanga’s last update (dated June 20th) seemed to imply that we needed to save our photos because they might not…..Just some things that make you go…. Hmmmmmm…..
Ed, or Joel – either is fine.
e-mail help@xanga.net for your passwords – they will help you through the process.wordpress and xanga are two different sites, but both are powered by the same open-source engine – the wordpress platform.so your username here - along with password/sign in – will be the same – and the URL will remain the same.You may inquire directly with thexanga team at help@xanga.net regarding your archive questions as well.