Haloscan kicked me out early, just like Laura and Phantom.
I exported almost 5,000 comments. I couldn't just let them linger there, all alone. And I feel (overly) sentimental about losing them. I remember that when Blogger started doing embedded comments, I switched until I realized that I would be losing all of my old Haloscan comments and it upset me so much to think about losing so much of the history of this blog, particularly those comments to posts that were hard to write. Or were easy to write but hard to post. Now those posts are hanging out there in the universe, lonely.
It feels like I just lost a box of letters.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I'm pissed at Haloscan. I don't want to pay for something that Blogger will give me for free, and I feel blackmailed because they're holding my comments hostage, really. But it isn't like I'm comment heavy these days! It's all I can do to crank out a post of some kind once a week.
Most of you read via feed readers and probably won't even notice that I also abandoned by custom template because I don't have time to futz with figuring out how to get rid of the Haloscan code and go back to regular comments. (I used to be pretty adept at such things when I was blogging regularly!)
This sucks.
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Yeah, it totally sucks. I tried to futz around with the template, but even for someone who does this regularly, it's a pain. Because they have a non-standard system that's impossible to figure out. Sigh.
I more than agree. Even if I leave Blogger and import all the posts elsewhere, I don't think there's any information in the Haloscan files that will allow me to import the comments back onto the posts. Kills me. I mean, I really do think blog-comments are going the way of the dodo bird, but I thought the old comments would be there long after the party had moved on. Bah, humbug.
As I noted elsewhere, that's seriously annoying. I closed down my old blog but on my own terms and since everything was hosted locally, my comments remain. But Haloscan was a convenient way for many to get comments rocking in the earlier days of blogging so it seems sad that all of a sudden, on two weeks' notice, things are "pay up or shut up" for so many bloggers. Bah!
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