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Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart
We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. We're bittersweet about shutting down the service but we believe we'll come back with something much better in 2009. We love the Pownce community and we will miss you all.
We're very happy that Six Apart wants to invest in growing the vision that we the founders of Pownce believe so strongly in and we're very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart's products. Mike and I have joined Six Apart as part of their engineering team and we're looking forward to being a part of the talented group that has created amazing tools for blogging and publishing.
We'll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we'd like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we've added an export function. Visit http://pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.
For our Pro members, we'll be emailing you soon with more information about your Pro account.
As for the Pownce team, we'll continue posting on Vox. You can find me at http://leahculver.vox.com, Mike at http://mjmalone.vox.com, and Ariel at http://arielwaldman.vox.com. The Six Apart announcement can be found on their company blog (http://sixapart.com/blog/).
We really appreciate your continued support and understanding. Thanks so much for being part of the Pownce community.
We're very happy that Six Apart wants to invest in growing the vision that we the founders of Pownce believe so strongly in and we're very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart's products. Mike and I have joined Six Apart as part of their engineering team and we're looking forward to being a part of the talented group that has created amazing tools for blogging and publishing.
We'll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we'd like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we've added an export function. Visit http://pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.
For our Pro members, we'll be emailing you soon with more information about your Pro account.
As for the Pownce team, we'll continue posting on Vox. You can find me at http://leahculver.vox.com, Mike at http://mjmalone.vox.com, and Ariel at http://arielwaldman.vox.com. The Six Apart announcement can be found on their company blog (http://sixapart.com/blog/).
We really appreciate your continued support and understanding. Thanks so much for being part of the Pownce community.
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Inappropriate?If you guys think this is the way to go, then I'll support you in this choice and wish you the best of luck.
As a Pownce user however, I'm not quite sure where to go now. Vox seems to be a full-blown blog service. The main attraction of Pownce, for me, is its simplicity and the speed with which I can post stuff without unnecessary bells and whistles. Vox seems too 'complicated' to me. Furthermore, correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like it supports private and group posts?
What are other Pownce users going to do? Is there any other service like Pownce out there?
I’m torn.
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Inappropriate?@FirePownce Vox does give you more options than Pownce, however it's fairly easy to just make short blog posts with embedded media once you set it up.
Vox does support private/group posts - when you go to create a post, there's a "Share this post" feature under the text box that let's you define who can see your entry.
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Thanks for the info, Ariel.
I'll be sure to check Vox out.
But for now, I'm just going to make the best of these last two weeks. :) -
Inappropriate?Pownce Team FAIL. with the exception of burka, he did his job
you guys really should of listened to the few users you did have, they tend to be right. *shrug
Vox is going nowhere, Pownce had more potential.
Sure I'll miss Pownce, but will I miss the Dev's/Management... Hell No, I've never seen such a disorganized mess.
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Inappropriate?Vox is great, but so different from Pownce. It's a place where people leave bulky, content rich blogs, most of the time. Pownce and Vox combined could, potentially, enhence and strengthen each other, but neither could replace te other.
See my post; http://krizzz.vox.com/library/post/po... :P
