soapblox

After software developers at Soapblox waved the white flag and said they were ceasing operations Wednesday, and despite many peoples' offers of advice and free help to get Soapblox siteowners onto something more robust and open, some have decided the best thing to do was to, well what else, embrace Soapbox even more. They've started a fund raising drive for it, and at the moment have raised almost $10,000 to "Save Soapblox".

There must be a good reason right? Naturally.

As cited in Why SoapBlox Matters Soapblox must be saved because:

"SoapBlox includes all the major features of a community blog -- namely, user diaries and other community-building features. These features are NOT readily available in any other software platform WordPress, MoveableType and others make it exceedingly difficult to do things like diaries and frontpage promotions, and SoapBlox makes it easy."

Got that? Soapblox needs to be saved there aren't things like user diaries (e.g., user-blogs) in other software platforms. (...)

Just wow. Soapblox a proprietary/closed blogging CMS architecture and hosting combination, which has been widely used for left-leaning political blogs has been hacked and Soapblox is apparently throwing in the towel. What a mess:

It was a good ride, but it's over.

Thanks for all the fish.

All these hackers messing with our stuff, and we here at SoapBlox have no clue what to do. We don't have enough knowledge, time, money, or care to fix it.

So I hope the Hackers are happy.

If you want the data from your blog, we will get it. But we are not going to try and restore anything.

Consider this the "We're Out of Business" post.

Most of the servers have been taken off line because they were being used to hack and exploit other websites. The hackers install this crap on servers after they get in. SoapBlox's ISP then takes the servers off line.

We do not know when they will come back online.

We do not know if they will come back online.