John, If you're reading this, please reconsider and at least keep the pages up. Just stop adding to them. There's a wealth of good stuff in there and it's painful to see a hole in the web like this. Whatever you chose, thank you very much for all your contributions, it's been a pleasure.
All the blog pages are still there. I haven't taken it down.
By mothballing I mean: I've stopped updating, I've disabled further comments and the front page has just one story on it, but it's all there and indexed. I don't intend to delete stuff from the Internet as I know there are many people who read the old stuff I wrote (thousands of page views per day).
If anything has broken I would like to know about it as that's not what I wanted. I just wanted to be free of the responsibility of coming up with new stuff. My life is so full that it was getting neglected and so I decided to prune rather than let it wither.
Question for discussion: it is well within John's rights to do as he wishes with his online property, but what are everyone's thoughts on the _why-esque approach of simply pulling all of one's "shared digital life" off the Internet?
I haven't done anything _why like. There's no drama or mystery. My blog content is still there.
I deliberately put up a 'so long and thanks for all the fish' message on jgc.org because I knew that some people would start to wonder if I just stopped blogging and tweeting.
TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN. There's no exciting news here. I'm busy doing other stuff, like working at CloudFlare and existing in the real world.
It kind of sucks as a user/reader but I can see where people come from.
I at least hope if people have useful content they keep it up and if not hopefully that content exists in a permissive license: http://diveintohtml5.info/
We'll probably see many more people want to disconnect for periods of time in the future on a more frequent basis as users grow older.
Poster here, didnt mean any disrespect by sharing this.
I think it shows a lot of strengh and courage doing this. I think most of us will have a moment in our life where we need to experience something new, something else and need more time. Time is so precious.
For me, it is just comforting knowing that it is possible to get out of that loop and that I am not the only one with that pressure.
That's a shame, I can recall some great posts there, particularly the "Climategate" ones that actually investigated tech aspects of the story no proper journalist would bother with.
My site went down back in May(?) when TextDrive mishandled what was apparently the final switchover from Joyent. I thought I was going to get it back up quickly, but I've left it down, realizing that while occasionally my site came in handy when I wanted to look something up, overall it was work. Also, my blog had been up for nearly 15 years and I felt I didn't need to keep a permanent record for the world of everything I've ever written. I've come to embrace the temporariness of things.
jacquesm|12 years ago
jgrahamc|12 years ago
By mothballing I mean: I've stopped updating, I've disabled further comments and the front page has just one story on it, but it's all there and indexed. I don't intend to delete stuff from the Internet as I know there are many people who read the old stuff I wrote (thousands of page views per day).
If anything has broken I would like to know about it as that's not what I wanted. I just wanted to be free of the responsibility of coming up with new stuff. My life is so full that it was getting neglected and so I decided to prune rather than let it wither.
breckinloggins|12 years ago
Example: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/long-range-wifi-antenna-from-ill...
Question for discussion: it is well within John's rights to do as he wishes with his online property, but what are everyone's thoughts on the _why-esque approach of simply pulling all of one's "shared digital life" off the Internet?
jgrahamc|12 years ago
I deliberately put up a 'so long and thanks for all the fish' message on jgc.org because I knew that some people would start to wonder if I just stopped blogging and tweeting.
TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN. There's no exciting news here. I'm busy doing other stuff, like working at CloudFlare and existing in the real world.
postfuturist|12 years ago
FireBringer|12 years ago
It kind of sucks as a user/reader but I can see where people come from.
I at least hope if people have useful content they keep it up and if not hopefully that content exists in a permissive license: http://diveintohtml5.info/
We'll probably see many more people want to disconnect for periods of time in the future on a more frequent basis as users grow older.
dreur|12 years ago
I think it shows a lot of strengh and courage doing this. I think most of us will have a moment in our life where we need to experience something new, something else and need more time. Time is so precious.
For me, it is just comforting knowing that it is possible to get out of that loop and that I am not the only one with that pressure.
Joeboy|12 years ago
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kbd|12 years ago
throwaway9101|12 years ago
Alternatively, nocarrier [AT] the domain of the post.
bhauer|12 years ago
+++ ATH
Ah the good old days.
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