I hope Vish won't mind if I clarify a few things.
Back in July, it was decided by Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President of Products for AOL, that a plethora of products should be sunset because they don't make enough money. Read this official email here.
Apart from AOL Journals, this also includes AOL Hometown. Some of us are familiar with AOL Hometown as an area of FTP-space (storing static images, not animations), with a very poor user interface. I have no official word at all about AOL Pictures: the AOL Pictures blog has not been updated for 13 months, and there is no word on the Pictures site. Personally, I'd suggest to save anything stored on both 'products' to your own harddisk asap.
Finally, please don't shoot the messenger.
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Guido, thanks for the additional info--I have my pictures on AOL, too! But I have them all backed up elsewhere (Picasa).
Beth
Well THEY NEVER should have made AOL Journals FREE!!!! and slap ad's on them...if they hadn't done that they wouldn't have lost out on money with AOL Journals!!!
The AOL Journals community shook it's head that day, telling you ALL that it was a VAST mistake...now WE have to pay for it!
I know Guido, but Vish should have told us or sent Emails. We pay for AOL services. How can Kevin Conroy say that these serivces aren't making enough money? World wide AOL is making a great deal of money from subscribers such I and Advertisers. with the encomy the way it is going the "bottom Line" is not going to show upward growth Keven Conroy.
Thanks Guido.
Lisa
Thanks for the info!
Missie
Does this sound like all of AOL maybe shutting down?????
I don't know how to copy all of my two Journals. Should I purchase "MyBook" Western Digital Storage for this or will CDs surfice? I'm not that technical savy and I need some help here.
Yes, I do have a lot of pictures on AOL pictures but I do have Picassa as well. I have some of my animated graphics on Photobucket.
I'm so confused and truly upset. These Two Journals of mine involved a great many hours of work with my graphics and I don't want to lose them.
Everyday is another obstacle with the country in a total mess. Any news about AOL????? Is that stock going to tumble too?
So much to swallow..............what is your advice?
Please Help
Hugs, Rose
I just want to say....AOL Journals was never free for me...and mine never worked! I could only comment on other peoples' journals. I have been paying only to stay connected, really, to this community...not to be able to blog anymore. Guess I will have to go to Blogspot to vent about it!
It really is sad.
Laura
PLEASE GET US SOME TECH HELP IN HOW TO SAVE OUR MOST PRECIOUS MEMORIES....OUR JOURNALS AND OUR PICTURES.
SINCERELY
CARLENE NOGGLE
They don't realize it, but they are killing off bit by bit many of the reasons I remain true to AOL for my ISP. AOL aside, I am sickened by this news because the community we have here will not remain intact and full after migration. And that is what this is. A community, a family. Has nothing to do with dollars or cents or even number of readers. - Barbara
I am pretty well disgusted with devolution AOL has been intent upon, for some time now, and with the announcement they are "discontinuing" the Journals location, they will have ended any reason for me to still be here. I guess after Nov 1, I will cut my ties to AOL, ending 12 years of paying mostly full price for membership, and taking the 6 other people who share my membership along with me. I think AOL is headed for the toilet, which is pretty much what republikans do with businesses: they chew them up and spit them out, after looting them of anything valuable. I cannot understand why anyone making less than $250k per year would EVER associate with the republikan party, since all they have ever done is use and abuse us, destroying everything of value in their endlessly immature game of "whoever dies with the most toys wins" game. It doesn't matter, you're just DEAD, and if you didn't enjoy thejourney, and I mean other than gorging on expensive food and wine, then yo missed the reason the Creator put you here in the first place! Looking back over the last 12 years, I have seen AOL move from one of the pack, to top of the heap, and, finally, to just another ISP, one that generates far more enmity than customer satisfaction and loyalty. Those, by the way, WERE the watchwords for "good business, BEFORE the neocon nutcases, with junkbonds and junk-thinking took over the republikan party and the country, destroying business, and bringing the entire economy to the brink of disaster! What a bunch of looney toones! Idiots non-savant, in the extreme!
Oh, and by the way, the LINK you included (" here ") lead me to a page that said Kevin Conroy would lose his job, also. Nothing could be sweeter, if it is true. However, that link does NOT lead to the text of the email! For that, one must click one link after another! It is somewhere in the 5th or 6th link that the message finally appears! Typical of AOL, these days. They eliminated "TELLUS" a few years ago, because they weren't really interested in hearingfrom us. As I said in my previous post, the "smart guys" in charge, prepped at the right schools and trained at Wharton or some similar school of how NOT to run a business for the long run, those guys haven't a clus, and they have run a very successful, and ground-breaking, ISP into the ground! I 'm sure they will all get great jobs in the government, or Wall Street, somewhere where their talents can make one or the other of those institutions even MORE inefficient, even LESS profitable, even less responsive to the shareholders or citizens (it is getting harder each day to distinguish between the two, in this brave new republikan world! Anybody got a time-machine? I'd like to go back to the time when "tax and spend" democrats ran things sloppily but half-assed efficiently, and a cup of coffee cost a DIME, with ALL therefills you could drink. A time when your paycheck paid the rent, groceries and gas was only a quarter, NOT a $5 bill! Yikes, lemme out of here!
a) I pay for my AOL, and hence AOL journals, too.
b) If not for Guido and Vish, I'd know NOTHING of this. We should be informed better -- there are many times I dont' get to reading entries and could easily have missed this bit of info.
c) all of my online photos are on aol. Sigh.
d) Does the 'saving" have to go onto hard disk, or, say, a thumb drive, or cd?
e) Yeah, this really sucks........ I have to agree with Barbara that part of the reason I stay on aol at this point, is due to the journals. Being they got rid of the GOOD message board format a while back, cutting into that community. Sad, really sad.
OK I'll just clean my gun and put it away for now......sad day in JLand for sure.
I'm an AOL paid subscriber and its been hard for an older country lady to learn about pictures etc. It is a sad day for me to have to start all over. I know it isn't your fault, you're just taking the flack. Thanks, Paula
Guido, not shooting the messenger but I do believe that AOL journals is what holds many, many folks at AOL because AOL is probably the worst browser out there. Dumping the blogs will be the final nail in AOL's coffin. Their loss, for sure. Chris
as soon as I get all my stuff downloaded and transfered I will be leaving aol , sorry but I only used it for the journals and to keep in touch with my friends on my groups ..
hugs and god bless all of you .
hugs
Sherry
I left paid AOL when the message boards went "new"..hate them, they are the hardest ones to use on the net. I won't be surprised if they shut those down too. I've blogged here for a long time and tied it to my website. Built quite a following. Yet another let down from AOL. Sad, sad sad. Trying to save all my stuff is just too time consuming and not worth it. I'm starting over, and hopefully my readers willl follow me.
Hello there!
Does this mean we can't post any pictures until further notice?
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Think I read somewhere that AOL Pictures disappears next summer, not this month
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