http://help.xanga.com/ Xanga Help Topic: 10 Year Blog Gone en Sun, 03 May 2026 00:57:37 +0000 http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=1007#post-1007 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:15:39 +0000 onsce 1007@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>The current happenings were well understood by a subset of the community. But it's quite obvious on this board that it was not understood by the community as a whole. </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=983#post-983 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:57:32 +0000 Cagey 983@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>@delphiki, Sure, it's very clear, and has been clear since May 30th. I quote the following:</p> <p><a href="http://thexangateam.xanga.com/2013/05/30/relaunching-xanga-a-fundraiser/" rel="nofollow">http://thexangateam.xanga.com/2013/05/30/relaunching-xanga-a-fundraiser/</a></p> <p>"Because of this cost, we would have to move Xanga to a paid model, where bloggers pay for hosting for their blogs. (Just being a member of Xanga would still be free though, so others could still subscribe to your site.) We would enable our bloggers to pay in either money or time (through volunteering).</p> <p> We would also include a gifting option, where you can buy a Xanga blogging membership for a friend… or earn one through volunteering, and gift that blogging membership to a friend.</p> <p>Since blogging memberships would be paid, we wouldn’t have any ads on the blogs… giving our bloggers an ad-free experience"</p> <p>This has been the pitch well understood by this community and has continued to be (has been further stated as such), and something we've been complaining about from the get-go. If you were a PREMIUM member, you will have to continue paying the new fee of $48 to blog. If you were a FREE member you will also now have to continue paying $48 to blog. If you DONATED, you're covered for ONE YEAR (depending on how much you 'donated'), after that you must continue to keep paying. If you were a LIFETIME or TRUE member, you have to also pay to blog (such contracts are no longer being honored). Since you are a LIFETIME member (or perhaps you donated?), your contract, to my understanding will be honoured for a period of time, before you too, will have to PAY the fee. This has been a source of anger and frustration for many individuals for months now.</p> <p>The ONLY thing, that will be provided to ANYONE for free is an archived backup via a FILE, so that you can choose to keep it for your records or move to another hosting provider. OR you can choose to keeping blogging on Xanga by giving them the yearly payment. If you do not do so, you cannot blog on this service anymore. You will merely have an ACCOUNT, and can only comment and read those blogs who PAY for service. </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=966#post-966 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:41:53 +0000 Delphiki 966@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>@cat_newlife - I have a Lifetime account (aka premium for life) and my posts are available, but my theme and photos are not yet available.</p> <p>@cagey - Where does it say you need to pay to blog? From what I can tell, all they're saying is if you paid, it means that your blogs are being made available first. Everyone else will have to wait while they set up the free accounts. </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=786#post-786 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:24:16 +0000 bakamonky 786@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>I didn't get any damn notification about this?I kept several blogs and now they are all gone. Time to change the place to blog! </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=774#post-774 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:37:57 +0000 Cagey 774@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>If you haven't paid or contributed, you may be able to obtain an archive upon request to Xanga (do not hold your breath on the amount of time this may take) and host it elsewhere. But you will not be able to blog on this site, unless you pay the fee. </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=761#post-761 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:17:20 +0000 analeebanana 761@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>Okay, so he said even those who haven't paid will eventually get their blogs back? </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=760#post-760 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:16:40 +0000 Breadandbutterlp 760@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>Hey guys! I wanted to let y'all know that this happened to me too! All of my stuff is gone, however I did reach out to John who is in charge of letting everyone know what is going on.</p> <p>John said that if you have been active you should be able to get your stuff back, however, premium and contributed people are priority and will be done first. I hope this helps! I will cry and scream if I don't get mine back.</p> <p>Fingers crossed! </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=757#post-757 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:00:35 +0000 dEZii_X0 757@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>OMG. this is terrible. How can I get my blog back?! </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=743#post-743 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:27:03 +0000 bebegatee 743@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>wow, really in in AW.... ten yr blog!<br /> GONE<br /> my diary...<br /> (T-T) </p> http://help.xanga.com/topic/10-year-blog-gone?post_id=739#post-739 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:23:58 +0000 analeebanana 739@http://help.xanga.com/ <p>Not spamming, just really need to get this petition around if we're going to start something and get xanga's attention!!</p> <p><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/xanga-2-0-putting-a-price-on-our-words-return-archives-to-classic-users-without-a-contribution-membership" rel="nofollow">https://www.change.org/petitions/xanga-2-0-putting-a-price-on-our-words-return-archives-to-classic-users-without-a-contribution-membership</a></p> <p>Sign at Change.org - super quick and easy. </p>