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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by aya72 »

aya72 wrote: post #130
dabent wrote: post #25

I have 1161 entries dating back to my first on August 18, 2010. I really love the service, but understand if they have to shut it down. Thanks to the founders for keeping such an easy-to-use service around for so long. I'm off to find an alternative. My list of features isn't long. A daily email with a reminder and a previous post from the last year, month or week. It's that simplicity that kept me using the service.

Try maildiary.net It has the same features.

and you can import your ohlife-diary to start over.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by aya72 »

hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

you can export your ohlife-diary and import it into maildiary.net and start over. Within a few minutes you have a comparable service running.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by hawke »

Would anyone be interested in importing their OhLife entries to 280daily.com? The feature doesn't exist, but if there's some interest, it might be worth doing.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by lancer »

marcfonteijn wrote: post #126
lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Could you post some info about the Daily Dairy team on the site? It's nice to know who is handeling our personal data.

Will do. The site was recently overhauled and there are still a few important pages, and features, that are in the pipeline.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by meaglo »

lancer wrote: post #108
lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. An option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.

Would LOVE this. I've been using it for nearly 3 years and desperately looking for a similar thing. Does yours email us with reminders of where we've been as well?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by lancer »

meaglo wrote: post #136
lancer wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. An option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.

Would LOVE this. I've been using it for nearly 3 years and desperately looking for a similar thing. Does yours email us with reminders of where we've been as well?

At the moment it does not include past entries, but it will soon!

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by korzun »

speakeron wrote: post #75
korzun wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future... Yeah, that's not how it works. Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make.

> Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make. Committing time and money to enhance your reputation is never a mistake.

That's really easy to say when you're not the one who is paying for it.

This is pretty typical. Every single business owner out there knows that the non-paying users generate more noise and complaints than an average paying customer.

The bullshit 'reputation' angle you are playing is a total non-sense.

Tell that to Max Levchin and 99% of other entrepreneurs that had to fail and fail hard prior to actually making it. I'm sure their 'reputation' is ruined.

TLDR: You live in a bubble.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by acgourley »

kevinchen wrote: post #94
kalleboo wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dump each user's data into a ZIP file with HTML content+all the images. Now you've reduced a "keep creaky web app running" problem to "host some static files with authentication" problem. Might even be able to stick it onto S3 or something and have next-to-no maintenance. Nobody needs to be fulltime to support that, just have an hourly sysadmin on retainer to fix issues that come up and keep on top of security patche…

Since most users only have a few KB of text in OhLife, they could just run the exporter for everyone and then email them the results.

Exactly this!!

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by tvsavant »

lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

I have also just joined DailyDiary per your suggestion & would LOVE import capability for my previous OhLife entries as mlsenn & others have pointed out!

The feature of the 'one year ago you wrote...' would also be incredibly great to have and would ensure I stuck with DailyDiary for the future!

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