Weblogs.com stops hosting...

It looks like weblogs.com has shuttered its doors and is migrating all of the current weblogs to other services. I hate it when this happens. I can totally understand why Dave is doing this - it happens (and its not his fault), but that doesn't make me like it any more. Users really end up with the short end of the stick. They have to recover their content, find a new home for it, force the round peg into the square hole and then spend the next few weeks or months tweaking stuff that "used to work just great at the old place!"

Unfortunately, there's no real easy answers to any of this - which makes it suck just that much more. Having been through this a couple of times with different providers in the past, I can say that having other people around to pitch in does help.

So, if anyone reading this needs to find a new home for their Weblogs.com blog, let me know. I've made the migration in the past myself and would be more than happy to give you some pointers or help you find a new weblog friendly service provider.