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OhLife is shutting down

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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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i start use ohlife from 08/26/2010, has 658 entries totally.

every night i will wait for your email and input what i think or meet today, and i can know what i thought one year ago, and i have the chance to remember the good/sad life i experienced before.

it's always in my daily routing and the habit, i also introduced this service to my family and friends, everyone like it very much.

thanks guys, hope i can do sth to save this site.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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This is too bad. I used this for my journal entries, and it really helped me keep track of where my life was headed. I'll have to find an alternative method of journaling now.

Does anyone know anything about the founders or how they tried to make money? I never saw a premium option.

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post #3

This is too bad. I used this for my journal entries, and it really helped me keep track of where my life was headed. I'll have to find an alternative method of journaling now. Does anyone know anything about the founders or how they tried to make money? I never saw a premium option.

If you sign into the web interface and click settings, there's a "Premium" option for $24/year or $40/2 years. It would give you weekly text-only backups to Dropbox or email, increase the number of photos per post to 5, and allow you to customize your daily email.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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post #3

This is too bad. I used this for my journal entries, and it really helped me keep track of where my life was headed. I'll have to find an alternative method of journaling now. Does anyone know anything about the founders or how they tried to make money? I never saw a premium option.

that's true, i also did not find any payment choice. and their mail has no payment related ad.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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I think the one thing that disappoints me most is that there's no rich text / mass-photo export option here. Almost every post I made on OhLife has a photo attached.

I started using OhLife after psobot wrote a clone for it. His clone is now unmaintained, but I do think he had the right idea.

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post #4
post #3

This is too bad. I used this for my journal entries, and it really helped me keep track of where my life was headed. I'll have to find an alternative method of journaling now. Does anyone know anything about the founders or how they tried to make money? I never saw a premium option.

If you sign into the web interface and click settings, there's a "Premium" option for $24/year or $40/2 years. It would give you weekly text-only backups to Dropbox or email, increase the number of photos per post to 5, and allow you to customize your daily email.

still did not found, maybe has IP filter, different country has different payment strategy.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you sign into the web interface and click settings, there's a "Premium" option for $24/year or $40/2 years. It would give you weekly text-only backups to Dropbox or email, increase the number of photos per post to 5, and allow you to customize your daily email.

still did not found, maybe has IP filter, different country has different payment strategy.

Perhaps it has been taken down due to the shutdown announcement. But I never saw the option before.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#9
Seriously? Maintaining well written script is so hard?

Why not putting this on one Linode instance or Amazon Cloud, pay $50 a month and keep free users by offering premium $1/mo package to some of them?

But no, its easier to shut down. Less hassle, right?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you sign into the web interface and click settings, there's a "Premium" option for $24/year or $40/2 years. It would give you weekly text-only backups to Dropbox or email, increase the number of photos per post to 5, and allow you to customize your daily email.

still did not found, maybe has IP filter, different country has different payment strategy.

Strange. It was in the right sidebar for me.

Maybe it is an IP filter. I remember having seen the option for the last few years, both in Canada and in the US.

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