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#1 2012-08-16 22:35:07

Destry

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[mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

https://twitter.com/textpattern/status/236228979571449857

TextDrive was started in 2004 by Dean Allen, the creator of Textile (a “humane web text generator” similar in style to Markdown) and, later, Textpattern, the closest thing to a beautiful CMS that I’ve ever seen.

#2 2012-08-17 20:11:47

maruchan

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Interactions with staff nearly always had a faint whiff of BOFH about them

ROFL, totally know that feeling. I don’t think I would tolerate it from a shared hosting support tech, though. :-) Sad about the service but there are a lot of great web hosts out there these days.

#3 2012-08-17 22:07:41

woof

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Aren’t this and related domains hosted on TextDrive? I wonder how this development will affect that.

EDIT: I had not read this before I posed that question

Last edited by woof (2012-08-17 22:19:28)

#4 2012-08-18 14:35:42

colak

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

John I hope you read this too.

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#5 2012-08-30 15:38:09

Mary

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Crap. I didn’t get an email. Last email received was 6 days ago, notifying me about Emergency Maintenance. Just checked to see if a spam filter caught it… and nope.

Ray provided me with a VC3, which I “Golden Ticket”-ed to a free spot on a Shared SmartMachine.

Now really confused, trying to read through pages and pages to find out if they are booting me or expecting me to pay now, or what.

#6 2012-08-30 15:53:57

springworks

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Latest is that we are waiting for an announcement from Dean, which is due 11am Pacific time today (Thursday 30th August).

Relevant posts on the Joyent forum are: here here and here

#7 2012-08-30 16:13:58

Mary

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Thanks.

(I’m rather miffed that if I hadn’t happened to see this thread I wouldn’t have known. :/)

#8 2012-08-30 16:39:50

colak

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Hey Mary, it’s been a long time since your last post. Good to see you back :)

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#9 2012-08-30 18:14:33

Mary

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Here’s the announcement which I didn’t receive either.

#10 2012-08-30 18:16:38

wet

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

Mary wrote:

My email address has changed recently.

You do have told support@joyent.com, didn’t you?

#11 2012-08-30 18:20:40

Mary

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

wet wrote:

You do have told support@joyent.com, didn’t you?

As I said, I received an “Emergency Maintenance” email from them 6 days ago, so it is weird I would receive that but not these latest important messages. Check spam folder… nope, not there either.

Last edited by Mary (2012-08-30 18:21:42)

#12 2012-08-30 18:36:29

Mary

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Re: [mention] TextDrive R.I.P.

I found the form here, so I decided I’d try it and see if that works.